The concerts of this year’s kamara.hu festival will all echo the
wonderful atmosphere of The Little Prince. The first concert of
the festival, organised by artistic directors Izabella Simon and Dénes Várjon,
will start with Schumann’s depiction of the puerile spirit – modestly, on a
single piano – and the first half of the concert is closed with a
four-hand piano cycle for children that depicts various fairy tales. The
Debussy pieces evoke France, the homeland of Saint-Exupéry, and the sensitivity
of French music. The translucent sound of the Schubert sonata, composed toward
the end of his career and representing one of the author's most vulnerable,
most sensitive confessions, also refers to the novel: it can be interpreted as
the musical equivalent of the little prince's slender, fragile figure.
In an unusual development and in view of the situation that emerged
as a result of the pandemic, all this will take place online without the
participation of foreign guest artists; it will be in Hungarian “translation”
only, performed by the very best of the Hungarian musical life. The events can
be followed here.
