Under the guidance of the host and presenter of the concerts, the extraordinarily versatile Dániel Dinyés, and listening to the performances by the artists of the Hungarian National Philharmonic, the audience will get to learn about the history of the genre of the concerto in a nutshell while listening to works by Vivaldi, Bach, Boccherini and Mozart. These concertos for four different instruments - violin, oboe, cello and bassoon - will take turns 'doing battle' with the orchestra. Interesting questions to which attendees are certain to find answers are how a wind concerto differs from one written for a string instrument, how a high-pitched instrument glitters with its own light trills and how a low-pitched instrument growls in the bass register.
After the audience has received answers to all this and heard the melodies of these concerts, the four instruments, in a surprising and striking twist, will converge in a single work: Joseph Haydn's Sinfonia concertante, which the composer wrote for violin, oboe, cello and bassoon. This special genre, as a particular type of concerto, combines attributes of the symphony and the concerto. Here it is not a single solo instrument, but rather a group of them 'competing' with the orchestra. The genre is simultaneously akin to both the Baroque concerto and the Classical symphony.

Presented by: Hungarian National Philharmonic