The Grand Evening Concert „Franz Liszt and the 21st Century“

The big evening concert
Organ Concert „Franz Liszt and the 21st Century“

AT THE LOADING DOCK GATE
Zsolt Máté Mészáros – Organist at Budapest Cathedral

Following the musical evening prayer

Franz Liszt–Robert Schaab: Introitus

Franz Liszt: Orpheus – Symphonic Poem [No. 4.]

Franz Liszt: Offertory from the Hungarian Coronation Mass

Franz Liszt–Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg: Hungary’s God

Franz Liszt: Introduction, Fugue and Magnificat from the Dante Symphony

Zoltán Kodály: Consolation IV.

Zsolt Máté Mészáros: Pange lingua – Praeludium

Béla Bartók – Zsolt Máté Mészáros: Concert Overture – Homage to Zoltán Kodály

Ernst von Dohnányi: Three Folk Songs from Csík County, Sz. 35a

Fantasy for the organ

At the grand evening concert, the organ music Franz Liszt's at the centre and is supplemented by works from the 21st century. Zsolt Máté Mészáros, Organist of the Budapest Cathedral, will present a programme on the magnificent Ladegast Organ that relates Liszt's music to the present day. Alongside central organ works by Liszt, contemporary compositions that adopt or further his musical language will be performed. The concert demonstrates how strongly Liszt's musical ideas continue to resonate in organ music today.

The concert concludes with a musical evening blessing, leaving the evening to fade out in a quiet, contemplative atmosphere.

Mészáros Zsolt Máté (born 1992 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian organist and Liszt researcher, as well as music director of the Budapest Inner City Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary.
He completed his organ studies at the “Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music” with honours in 2018 and is continuing his doctoral studies there. Artistically, he sees himself as a dedicated ambassador for Hungarian music and organ culture. His recitals combine classics such as Johann Sebastian Bach with Hungarian highlights by Ernő Dohnányi and Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross. In addition, he performs his own arrangements (including of Béla Bartók) and his own works as a tribute to Zoltán Kodály. As a Junior Prima Prize winner, he won first prize at the “Filharmónia Magyarország” organ competition in 2012. He is currently working on a new complete edition of Liszt's organ and harmonium works and is president of the Society of Hungarian Harmonium Friends.