1-day Mozart Festival of the Concerto Budapest | Artistic Director: András Keller | Host: András Batta
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546
Keller Quartet (András Keller, Zsófia Környei violin, Máté Szűcs viola, László Fenyő cello)
Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 483
András Keller violin, Máté Szűcs viola, László Fenyő cello, Mihály Berecz piano
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat major, K. 452
Elisabeth Leonskaja piano, Concerto Winds ( Marin Tinev oboe, Csaba Klenyán clarinet, Bálint Mohai bassoon, Bálint Tóth horn)
In his serious fugue, Mozart reflects on his own studies of Bach. The pair of movements arrived at their final form in 1788. Franz Anton Hoffmeister commissioned three piano quartets from Mozart, but the first proved too difficult, so he withdrew from the contract. The second was nonetheless completed: an opening movement in sonata form and a slow movement built around dialogue between the instruments are followed by a cheerful finale. Mozart described his piano quintet as the best thing he had written in his life to date. The first movement begins with a slow introduction, the lyricism of the central movement makes it the most balanced example of Mozartian chamber music, while the earlier musical give-and-take returns in the rondo finale.
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Year after year since 2018, Concerto Budapest has dedicated a day-long series of concerts to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the eternal favourite of classical music, or rather to our shared and unquenchable passion for Mozart. And so it is on the first Sunday in March 2026.
"This day will stay with me for the rest of my life as a bright, clear and beautiful memory. The magic of Mozart's music still rings in my ears, as if from a distance."
This is what Franz Schubert wrote two hundred years ago about a day spent listening to the music of his great and much admired predecessor, and it is a good chance that we will all remember this Mozartian Sunday in the same way.
