Music-making Angels A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Nobody knows how music arose, but many believe that at some point in the distant past humanity discovered the beauty of nature’s voice and tried to copy it with instruments that were to hand. Whatever the truth, nature has always played an important role in so-called ‘classical’ music, as has the question of how we can evoke the world around us with the help of music. The relationship between music and nature is examined in the autumn semester of the Liszt Academy’s series for young people, the Liszt Kidz Academy. For this concert, the second in the series, the lead actors are perhaps the strangest beings in nature, the interceders between heaven and earth, the angels. Many composers have attempted to grasp the singing of angels and more generally their very essence, and as becomes apparent very quickly in this concert compiled by Liszt Prize winner János Bali, which spans more than 500 years of music, angels are far from being the goody-goody figures that Christmas shop windows would have us believe. “Every angel is terror,” writes Rainer Maria Rilke in one of his most beautiful poems, and János Bali lets us in on what exactly this startling statement may refer to. Naturally, there is no need for concern: even if there were ‘terrible’ angels, then the music made for them is, without exception, angelic.