600 nap – Hommage a Melis László / CAFe 2019

Melis: Maldoror énekei (The Songs of Maldoror) (Based on Lautréamont’s novel of the same title)

Miklós Lukács: Improvisations on a theme by Melis

Melis: Commedia del fagotto – ouverture

Melis: Anton Webern on Hortobágy

Melis: “The Last Letter” – Henriette Vogel (excerpt from Kleist Dies, a chamber opera by András Forgách and Melis László)

Melis: Choral works (the poems of Hölderlin and Petri)

Melis: À la carte – excerpts

Melis: The Last Encounter– Hommage à Zoltán Gyöngyössy

Melis: Songs from the Underpass – Homeless Lullaby

Melis: A szertartás (The Rite) – In memoriam Péter Hajnóczy

Featuring: Zsuzsa Lukin [5] – voice, piano, Balázs Bujtor [1, 10], Orsolya Winkler [1] – violin, Márta Melis [1, 6, 8, 9, 10] – viola, György Déri [1, 7, 10] – cello, Tibor Fonay [1, 10] – bass guitar, Máté Bán [1, 10] – flute, Fruzsina Káli-Fonyódi [1, 10] – oboe, Csaba Klenyán [1, 4, 10] – clarinet, György Lakatos [1, 3, 10] – bassoon, László Gőz [1] – trombone, Rita Termes [1, 8], Béla Faragó [1, 10] – piano, percussion, Miklós Lukács [2] – cimbalom, Tamás Schlanger [1, 6, 10], Lajos Tóth [1, 6, 10] – percussion, Group 180 [10], Voces Aequales [6]

The members of Group 180: Enikő Balogh, Béla Faragó, Ildikó Fodor, Péter Forgács, László Gőz, Ferenc Kovács, Ferenc Körmendy, István Márta, Klára Schnierer, András Soós, Tibor Szemző, Gellért Tihanyi, Tamás Tóth, László Vörös

The members of Voces Aequales: Péter Bárány, Zoltán Gavodi, László Farkas Keönch, Zoltán Mizsei, András Demjén, Pál Benkő

Conductor: Gergely Vajda [1, 10]

On 6 October, 600 days will have passed since the death of László Melis, composer and performing artist, who wrote music for film and theatre, and was a founding member of the legendary Group 180. One of his last works, And the Dead Sing Again had its premiere at the 2017 CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival. The concert now held in his memory features such friends and colleagues who performed his works at their world premieres. In his last months he worked on some film music, an opera based on Hölderlin, humorous choruses, and a viola concerto.

An event jointly organized with Budapest Music Center.