16th Börzsöny Baroque Days
Early music festival
Greeting
As artistic director of Börzsöny Baroque Days, I greet every member of our audience, both regular and new visitors, at our sixteenth festival!
We are looking forward to greeting You again this year with an outstanding programme overarching several centuries of music, a varied range of performers and the usual beautiful venues. The programme will be richer than in the previous years: five concerts in five days at five venues, where the new one is the famous Zebegény catholic church designed by Károly Kós, which has served as the venue of popular classical music concerts throughout the years.
Among the performing artists we are happy to greet Ensemble S105 from Holland and Recercare Early Music Ensemble from Veszprém, who already gave successful concerts in the previous years. A novelty will be the renowned young early music performer, harpsichord player and conductor Augustin Szokos, leading Budapest Bach Consort.
We are also very glad to join Göd Baroque Days at our closing concert this year for the third time.
We hope to greet You as one of our guests at the events among the hills.
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Imre Lachegyi
recorder artist, festival director
Programme overview
| 21 | Wednesday, 18:00 | Budapest Bach Consort
artistic director: Augustin Szokos |
| Verőce,
Catholic Church |
Sonatas of Mr Purcell and Mr Handel | |
| 22 | Thursday, 18:00 | Ensemble S105 (NL) |
| Zebegény,
Catholic Church |
Piéces en trio | |
| 23 | Friday, 18:00 | Recercare Early Music Ensemble |
| Kismaros,
Our Lady’s Abbey Church of Cistercian Nuns |
„Sire Roi, c’est ma femme” | |
| 24 | Saturday, 18:00 | Sebastian Consort
artistic director: Imre Lachegyi |
| Szokolya,
Calvinist Church |
Cantatas and Sonatas | |
| 25 | Sunday, 18:00 | Sebastian Consort
Partner event of ‘Belépés Családostul’ — Göd Baroque Days |
| Göd,
Szent Stephan’s Church of Alsógöd |
Closing concert — Sub umbra illius |
Admission to all the programmes is free. We are grateful for your donations for the organisation of the next festival.
Programme details
Wednesday 21 August 2019, 6 p.m. — Sonatas of Mr Purcell and Mr Handel
Verőce, Catholic Church (4 Lugosi utca) Map »
Personnel
- Augustin Szokos — artistic director, harpsichord
- Róza Lachegyi, Zsófia Bréda — baroque violin
- Zsolt Szabó — viola da gamba
Programme
- trio sonatas by Henry Purcell and Georg Friedrich Händel
Budapest Bach Consort
In June 2019 Jean Maurer restored the harpsichord built by Thomas Culliford in 1785, now owned by Budapest Bach Consort. You can hear this special Longman & Broderip instrument at this concert, before its official premiere in Budapest.
Budapest Bach Consort is an early music ensemble, formed by outstanding young musicians playing on period instruments. Augustin Szokos, at that time the youngest Hungarian conductor specialized in early music, founded Budapest Bach Consort in 2009 and since then the ensemble has been heard playing several successful concerts in Hungary and abroad as well.
The ensemble’s repertoire is mainly focused on the 17th and 18th century baroque music but occasionally they play compositions from the later periods. Beside orchestral compositions, chamber music takes a significant part in the ensemble's work, therefore the Budapest Bach Consort can be heard as a chamber group with a few musicians or a larger formation including an orchestra, choir and soloists.
Thursday 22 August 2019, 6 p.m. — Piéces en trio
Zebegény, Catholic Church (440 Petőfi tér) Map »
Personnel
Ensemble S105 (NL)
- Florencia Gómez — baroque flute
- Patricia Robaina Gonzalez — harpsichord
- Anna Lachegyi — viola da gamba
- Róza Lachegyi — baroque violin
Programme
- Works by J-M Léclair, M.Marais, J. Duphly, J. Morel
Ensemble S105
The ensemble is based in the Netherlands and it is formed by young artists who met as students in the Early Music Department of The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Their programmes include works by composers dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
They perform on replicas of surviving historical instruments. Flute, violin, harpsichord, viola da gamba and cello are instruments of a very diverse nature. The specific — obbligato — compositions for this combination display the imagination of the composers in the variety of colours and textures, and the players’ craftsmanship to speak, each with a very different voice, the same language.
Audiences are given the opportunity to experience one of the core musical ideas of instrumental music in the turn of the eighteenth century: unevenness and imagination within careful structure.
Friday 23 August 2019, 6 p.m. — ‘Sire Roi, c’est ma femme’
The Age of Ballads
Kismaros, Our Lady’s Abbey Church of Cistercian Nuns (Szuttai dűlő) Map »
Personnel
Recercare Early Music Ensemble
- Magdolna Suda — voice
- Nóra Király — voice, mediaeval harp
- Nóra Kallai — viola da gamba
- Árpád Reményi — lute
- Csaba Sipos — percussion
- Előd Kovács — narration
Programme
- Works by Machaut, Borlet, Solage, Cardot, Boesset, Gervaise
Recercare Early Music Ensemble
The Recercare Early Music Ensemble was founded to allow the musicians connected to the region of Veszprém to think, work, experiment and give concerts together. The ensemble is a sort of workshop, where apart from the founding members of the group, other musicians are welcome for the common creative work.
The repertoire of the ensemble is medieval and renaissance music, both sacred and secular, with the intention of connecting these two worlds.
The Recercare Early Music Ensemble won the 'PRIMA PRIZE' of Veszprém county in music in 2016.
Saturday 24 August 2019, 6 p.m. — Cantatas and Sonatas
Szokolya, Calvinist Church (5 Mányoki utca) Map »
Personnel
Sebastian Consort
- Imre Lachegyi — artistic director, recorder
- Orsolya Ligeti — soprano
- Róza Lachegyi — baroque violin
- Zoltán Tegyei — harpsichord
- Sándor Szászvárosi — viola da gamba
Programme
- Works by G. B. Bassani, Selma y Salaverde, A. Hammerschmidt, G. Ph. Telemann and anonymous composers
Sebastian Consort in 2018
Sebastian Consort is an early music ensemble founded in 2003 with the purpose of making renaissance and baroque consort music popular in Hungary. It is led by Imre Lachegyi recorder artist, who, together with his fellow-musicians, brings his musical ideas alive in special programmes stretching over periods from the Middle Ages through the baroque period to contemporary times. Originally the ensemble was entirely composed of recorders; the transcriptions of keyboard works, especially those written for the organ by Johann Sebastian Bach -as the name suggests- occupied a prominent place in their first programmes. However, the setup of the consort has changed throughout the years; its repertoire has extended both in genre and time. The present composition of the ensemble is the so-called ‘broken consort’ (instruments belonging to different ‘families’), which is often complemented by singers. In the past years they have regularly performed in the concert halls of Vác, Budapest and throughout the country.
Sunday 25 August 2019, 6 p.m. — Closing concert
“Sub umbra illius’ — Tarantella Naptoletana
The concert is a partner event of the ‘Belépés Családostul’— Göd Baroque Days
Göd, Catholic Church of Alsógöd (73 Pesti út) Map »
Personnel
Sebastian Consort
- Imre Lachegyi — artistic director, recorder
- Orsolya Ligeti — soprano
- Róza Lachegyi — baroque violin
- Árpád Reményi — lute
- Zoltán Tegyei — harpsichord
- Balázs Laczkó Pető — percussion
- Zsolt Szabó — bass viol
Programme
- melodies from the 12th—17th-century Mediterranean, arranged by the ensemble
Sebastian Consort in Göd (ptoho by Sára Wagner)
The 'Belépés Családostul' programme series would like to highlight the importance of human relationships in our more and more virtual life. 'Becsal' was started in 2002 in Göd and it aims to show how valuable it is to enjoy sport activities, music, discussions, friendship and family life together. The programmes are sponsored by the Saint James Pilgrims' Association, as well as by private sponsors, by the Municipality of Göd, by the Diocese of Vác and other foundations.
Since 2016 — as part of the BeCsal programmes — the Göd Baroque Days has given home to the field of music too, with the compositions of C.P.E. Bach, J.S. Bach, G.F. Händel and G. Ph. Telemann in focus.
During the summer, two concerts are held, where Imre Lachegyi and the Sebastian Consort are regular guests. For a few years they have performed as the partner event of Börzsöny Baroque Days in the Saint Stephen Church in Alsógöd.