Our concert series can be attended in the usual way: the concerts of our Breitner and Kodály Series are held at 7 pm on Thurdays, while the performances of the Pannonicum Series start at 6 pm on Saturdays. Our Musica Sacra concerts will help you to spiritually and musically get in tune with the holidays ahead.

According to the Hungarian Pallas Grand Dictionary, silver glance comes about when the lead-ore containing silver is melted so that pure silver can be extracted from it:  „when the last trace of the lead is oxidised and leaves the metallic surface, the shiny pure silver appears in all colours of the rainbow as a flash. This phenomenon indicates that the lead has vanished completely. Heating and bellowing must stop at this point in order to prevent silver from evaporating.”

Similarly to the moment of producing silver glance, in 2021 the 210-year old Pannon Philharmonic is determined to reveal the pure essence  of symphonic music, the moment where the intention of the composer and the talent of the musicians meet. With the deeply though-provoking coronavirus outbreak in mind, the ensemble wishes to draw the audience’s attention to Hungarian soloists and composers, the respect and protection of our values: the concert given by Peter Eötvös on Béla Bartók’s birthday is meant to be an appeal to the Hungarian public for a deeper appreciation of the internationally celebrated music of Bartók and our contemporary Hungarian composers. 

Peter Eötvös - composer, conductor

 

 

The heavyweights of the piano will come to Pécs, when the autumn will bring the most prominent pianists to the city. At the first two concerts of the season, József Balog will take to the stage under the baton of Gilbert Varga and Tibor Bogányi with two very different piano concertos.

József Balog - piano

 

 

We will also have the previlage to hear Dezső Ránki, Péter Frankl and Gergely Bogányi. It is, however, not only the piano that plays a central role in our concert series. Kristóf Baráti’s violin performance will be in the focus of a world premiere, but the fall will also bring us such star singers, as one of the best interpreters of the Baroque repertoire, Emőke Baráth. The audience of our spring subscription series will have the opportunity to enjoy the performance of various instrumental soloists. The percussionist Martin Grubinger, the cellist Song-Won Yang, the oboist, Márta Berger and the violinist Elina Vähälä will enchant the audience with their sublime performance, while the amazing list of highly gifted pianists will be concluded with Nelson Goerner and Klara Min. Also Pécs-related artists will delight the attendees of the series of the Pannon Philharmonic: the violist Murin Jaroslav, mezzo-soprano Lúcia Megyesi Schwartz the pianist Mihály Boros.

 

Martin Grubinger - drummer, multi-percussionist	Klara Min - piano	Elina Vähälä - violin

It’s a fitting tribute to the Beethoven Anniversary Year to stage some of the composer’s concertos, but Richard Strauss grandiose An Alpine Symphony, Corigliano’s Oscar-winning violin concerto The Red Violin as well as the most outstanding piano concertos by Bartók, Chopin and Brahms will feature on the programmes of our concert series. In the selected music full of humour and heroism, we can also hear the conductors’ personal favourites: at Gilbert Varga’s ideal and pure compositions written by Haydn, Bartók and Schubert, Tibor Bogányi’s next episode in his Bruckner series, and the former artistic director of the orchestra, the British Howard Williams expressing his sorrow over the Brexit by conducting Benjamin Britten’s Mass. The church music series of the season will feature Mozart’s Requiem and his Great Mass in C minor.

 

 

PLEASE, TAKE A LOOK AT THE CONCERTS INCLUDED IN EACH OF OUR SEASON TICKET SERIES: 

 

BREITNER SERIES - Attracted by opposites and a mysterious violin   

Opposites and the mysterious violin will be in the focus of the concerts of our Season Ticket „Breitner” held on Thursdays at 7 p.m. (Please take notice of the following! EXCEPTION: The day of our concert "Journey in the Alps" on 9 December 2020 is WEDNESDAY.) In the subscription consisting of 6+3 concerts (6 shared concerts of the „Kodály” series, plus 3 separate concerts each ) besides Beethoven’s piano concertos and symphonies performed in tribute to the marvellous German composer in his Anniversary Year, also Bruckner, Brahms and Nielsen’s symphonies will feature on the programme in addition to such rarities as Kalevi Aho’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra or Corigliano’s Oscar-winning violin concerto The Red Violin performed this time by Elina Vähälä.

 

KODÁLY SERIES - For lovers of contemporary and „ideal” music   

Our Season Ticket „Kodály” was created for the lovers of contemporary and „ideal” music. Concerts are invariably held on Thursdays at 7 p.m. (Please take notice of the following! EXCEPTION: The day of our concert "Journey in the Alps" on 9 December 2020 is WEDNESDAY.) The Kodály series consisting of 6+3 (6 shared concerts of the „Breitner” series, plus 3 separate concerts each ) concerts is full of musical treats: it takes you on journeys far afield: to Italy with an oboe concerto, to the Alps with the grandiose Alpine Symphony and other symphonies by Brahms and Bruckner. The representatives of „ideal” music – Haydn, Bartók and Schubert - also feature on the programme. Neither can Beethoven’s wonderful concertos and symphonies be missing from the concert series in the Beethoven Anniversary Year.

 

MUSICA SACRA SERIES - To be piritually and musically in tune   

The concert series „Musica Sacra” helps you to be spiritually and musically in tune with the religious holidays of All Saints, Christmas and Easter. Mozart’s Requiem and Grand Mass in C minor as well as Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular Christmas compositions will feature on the programme. The latter will be performed by a guest ensemble, the Savaria Baroque Orchestra. Such excellent singers will sing solo as Lúcia Megyesi Schwartz or Krisztián Cser alongside our very own Pannon Philharmonic Festival Choir.

 

PANNONICUM SERIES - Every Saturday for the lovers of the piano   

Our Season Ticket „Pannonicum” invites the lovers of pianists on Saturdays at 6 p.m. The series of 5+1 concerts will present thousands of faces of the piano with the kind participation of such musicians as Péter Frankl, Gergely Bogányi, Nelson Goerner or Klara Min. The programme features a fine selection of the works of most outstanding composers, among others Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Brahms or Chopin, under the batons of Gilbert Varga, Tibor Bogányi and Howard Williams.

 

PANNON SERIES - Five valuable Friday nights   

The artistic community of the Pannon Philharmonic is working exceedingly hard for a musical purification, which will take them to a most sublime level during the 2020/2021 Silver Flash Season. The subscription series of five Friday night concerts held in Müpa offers a truly unique experience to help the audience feel one with music. The internationally acclaimed principal conductor of the orchestra, Gilbert Varga opens the series alongside the pianist József Balog in October. We can then roam the slopes of the Alps with R. Strauss’ masterpiece The Alpine Symphony with the other principal conductor of Pannon Philharmonic, Tibor Bogányi and the pianist Dezső Ránki. In January, at the concert revealing Peer Gynt’s secrets, the award-winning Argentinian pianist, Nelson Goerner takes to the stage with Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Then, to celebrate World-famous Hungarians, before hearing Bartók’s Cantata Profana, the audience can also welcome the premiere of Peter Eötvös’s Sirens’ Song conducted by the composer himself, while the soloist of the night is the cellist Sung-Won Yang. At the closing event of the concert series in May, Elina Vähälä performs the violin concerto The Red Violin for the delight of the Müpa audience. 

The orchestra is looking forward to welcoming their new and old subscription holders to share the joy of music-making with all of them at Müpa.

 

The orchestra which went silent due the coronavirus outbreak is going to give concerts outdoors in the summer, then from the autumn, our musicians will keenly await their audience at their traditional concert series with the former subscription prices.

 

The orchestra is looking forward to welcoming their new and old subscription holders to share the joy of music-making with all of them.

Subscriptions can be renewed online on the orchestra’s homepage https://www.pfz.hu/en/berletujitas. New subscriptions can be purchased at www.jegymester.hu. To buy individual and season tickets in person in the ticket office of the Kodály Centre, please make an appointment in advance at www.kodalykozpontjegyiroda.hu.

 

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