Pannonhalma Art Festival
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Opening Concert
Messages: "...Man Is a Flower..."
21 August 2026 (Friday), 7:30 PM
St Martin's Basilica
Opening Concert – Messages: "...Man Is a Flower..."
György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages
György Kurtág: Scenes for Flute, Op. 39
György Kurtág: Eight Duos, Op. 8
György Kurtág: Tre pezzi, Op. 38
J. S. Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (excerpts)
J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (excerpts)
J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (excerpts)
Noa Hendrikx – piano
András Szalai – cimbalom
Concerto Camerata:
Orsolya Kaczander – flute; Csaba Klenyán – clarinet; Zsófia Környei, András Keller – violin; Janka Mekis – viola; Bálint Maróth, Ákos Takács – cello; Tibor Tabányi – double bass
Chamber Concert
Fragments
22 August 2026 (Saturday), 11:00 AM
Chapel of Our Lady
György Kurtág: Kafka-Fragments, Op. 24
Keren Motseri – soprano
Joseph Puglia – violin
Walking Concert
22 August 2026 (Saturday), 7:00 PM
St Martin's Basilica
Hommage à Márta Kurtág
György Kurtág: Bagatelles, Op. 14d
Angry Chorale
Hommage to J. S. B.
Like the Flowers of the Field…
Wildly and Gently
Man Is a Flower…
The Wild Flax-Haired Girl
Orsolya Kaczander – flute / Tibor Tabányi – double bass / Noa Hendrikx – piano
Hommage à Márta Kurtág – A Selection of Works by Bach and Kurtág
Izabella Simon / Dénes Várjon – piano
walking to the Concerthall
Játékok (Games)
György Kurtág: Splinters, Op. 6c
Miklós Lukács – cimbalom
György Kurtág: Wind Quintet, Op. 2
Concerto Winds: Orsolya Kaczander – flute / Marin Tinev – oboe / Csaba Klenyán – clarinet / Bálint Mohai – bassoon / János Benyus – horn
Games, Messages, Improvisations
László Gőz – bass trumpet / Miklós Lukács – cimbalom
J. S. Bach: Two-Part and Three-Part Inventions
Morning Concert
Variations
23 August 2026 (Sunday), 11:30 AM
Chapel of Our Lady
J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Mihály Berecz – piano
Midday prayer
23 August 2026 (Sunday), 1:00 PM
St Martin's Basilica
György Kurtág: Ligatura e versetti (1990)
J. S. Bach: (work to be announced)
Zsolt Kiss – organ
Closing Concert
23 August 2026 (Sunday), 3:00 PM
St Martin's Basilica
György Kurtág: Eszká-emlékzaj, Op. 12
Maria Husmann – soprano
András Keller – violin
J. S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
Zsófia Környei, András Keller – violin
Concerto Camerata
György Kurtág: Some Movements from the Notebook of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Op. 37a
Maria Husmann – soprano
Nieck de Groot – double bass
György Kurtág: Scenes from a Novel, Op. 19
Maria Husmann – soprano
András Keller – violin
András Szalai – cimbalom
Nieck de Groot – double bass
J. S. Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D major, BWV 1054
Dénes Várjon – piano
Concerto Camerata:
Zsófia Környei, Satoko Kakutani, Antal Tabányi – violin
Zsófia Várkonyi, Román Mikola, Szilvia Szigeti – violin
Janka Mekis, Előd Soós – viola
Ákos Takács, Bálint Maróth – cello
Tibor Tabányi – double bass
Augustin Szokos – harpsichord and continuo