Exile | Streaming Concert - June 2, 2021

A concert organised and offered by CEU Culture Hub, on June 2, 2021, 6pm.

Schumann: 5 Stücke in Volkston
Tamás Zétényi - cello
Kristóf Szőcs - piano

Bartók: String Quartet No. 6
Classicus Quartet

Sándor Veress: String trio
Éva Osztrosits - violin
András Kurgyis - viola
Tamás Zétényi - cello

Storms of history did not spare composers either, our program showcases a selection of pieces of three composers who were forced into exile. Schumann fled one of the last recrudescence of the Revolutions of 1848, the May Uprising, he escaped from Dresden to Kreischa. Nevertheless, not much of the revolutionary events comes through, in the pieces we can rather hear the idyll of a picturesque little town.

Bartók’s String Quartet No. 6 came to life during the summer of 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. The composer at that time already knew that he was going to leave his homeland due to the headway that fascism was making and the forthcoming war. The Mesto theme for viola is present as a motto before the first three movements already, then he interrupts composing the last, originally cheerful movement with a dance suite character, unfolding a closing movement out of this theme in which he says goodbye from Hungary and his “world of yesterday”.

Sándor Veress fled the other totalitarian regime of the 20th century, the communism, to the West. After crossing Italy, he settled in Basel, that is where he wrote this masterpiece which probably is the most significant development of the “Bartók style” and especially the string quartets.

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