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In death you will find fulfilment, in your neighbour perhaps the truth behind
love. Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder and Benjamin Britten’s Cabaret Songs
– posthumous gems by two of the greatest song composers if the twentieth century
– sing, each in their own way, about the big questions of life. The melancholy
nature of Strauss’s late romanticism is at odds with the wit and charm of
Benjamin Britten’s pre-war Cabaret Songs. Based on poems by his good friend W.H.
Auden, ‘Tell me the Truth About Love’, ‘Funeral Blues’, ‘Johnny’ and ‘Calypso’
reveal, with their spirited, jazzy undertones, a very different facet of the
composer. After unforgettable appearances in Les Huguenots and Bastarda, among
others, soprano Lenneke Ruiten will now sing for the first time a recital on the
stage of La Monnaie.
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C’est dans la mort qu’on trouve la plénitude ; et c’est peut-être chez son
voisin qu’on trouvera la vérité de l’amour. Les Vier letzte Lieder de Richard
Strauss et les Cabaret Songs de Benjamin Britten – perles posthumes de deux des
plus grands compositeurs de mélodies du XXe siècle – chantent, chacune à leur
manière, les grandes questions de la vie. Le post-romantisme mélancolique de
Strauss contraste fortement avec le wit and charm des Cabaret Songs de Benjamin
Britten, composées avant la guerre. « Tell me the Truth About Love », « Funeral
Blues », « Johnny » et « Calypso », toutes écrites sur des poèmes de son proche
ami W.H. Auden, offrent, par l’entremise de leurs accents humoristiques et
jazzy, une facette du compositeur bien différente. Ce sera le premier récital
donné sur la scène de la Monnaie par la soprano Lenneke Ruiten, qu’on a entendue
dans des prises de rôles inoubliables pour Les Huguenots, Bastarda et bien
d’autres.
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In de dood vind je vervulling, bij je buurman misschien de waarheid achter de
liefde. Richard Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder en Benjamin Brittens Cabaret Songs –
postume pareltjes van twee van de grootste twintigste-eeuwse liedcomponisten –
bezingen, elk op hun eigen manier, de grote vragen van het leven. Strauss’
melancholieke laat-romantiek staat haaks op de wit and charm van Benjamin
Brittens vooroorlogse Cabaret Songs. ‘Tell me the Truth About Love’, ‘Funeral
Blues’, ‘Johnny’ en ‘Calypso’, allemaal op gedichten van zijn goede vriend W.H.
Auden, laten met hun geestige, jazzy ondertoon een heel andere facet horen van
de componist. Sopraan Lenneke Ruiten zingt na onvergetelijke passages in onder
meer Les Huguenots en Bastarda nu voor het eerst een recital op het podium van
de Munt.
Csikos-Szomora-Racz Trio: Shostakovich, Piazzolla, Bloch and more
Description
Violon : Vilmos Csikos,
Violon/Alto : Pál Lászlo Szomora
Piano : László Rácz
Vilmos Csikos obtained his Master degree in the class of Yossif Ivanov at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with great distinction. 1st prize at the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in 2007 (Fermo, Italy). 1st prize at the Remember Enescu International Violin Competition in 2007 (Sinaia, Romania). 1st prize at the "Young Belgian Talent" Competition in 2015 (Brussels, Belgium). 1st Prize at the Leonid Kogan International Violin Competition in 2017 (Brussels, Belgium).
1st Prize at the Henry Vieuxtemps International Violin Competition in 2020 (Verviers, Belgium).
Pal Laszlo Szomora started to play violin at the age of 4 with his first teacher and his father Pal Szomora, later he was following lessons with Szasz Jozsefne in Budapest. From 2013 he has been studying with Mikhail Bezverkhny (winner of Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1976).
In his early age he is a 1st prize winner of numerous national and international competitions: the Thrid Rados Deszo Violin Competition (Budapest, Hungary), International Competition ‘Jonge Solisten aan Zee’ (Oostende, Belgium), Solosists Competition ‘Jong Symfonisch Gent’ (Gent, Belgium), International Arthur Grumiaux Violin Competition (Brussels, Belgium).
Laszlo Racz began learning piano at the age of 9. From 2006 to 2010 he studied with Gabor Nagy and Livia Kelemen. In 2008 he won the Bartok Bela competition in Budapest. At 14 he played in Vienna for Sophia Rachlin, who introduced him to Michaela Ursuleasa. In 2010 he entered Mihaela's “Class for Special Talents” at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna. Laszlo then continued his work with Klaus Sticken. In 2014, Laszlo began his bachelor's degree in Thomas Kreuzberger's class. In 2015 he won Yehudi Menuhin's Live Music Now Award, proving that he is one of the most talented young musicians of his generation.
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