Classicus Ensemble Presented by Liszt Academy

Song cycle, melodrama, monodrama, theatre, an intense psychological journey offering endless possibilities for extreme self-expression. Happily, these days we increasingly come across Schönberg’s epochal and evergreen masterpiece, Pierrot lunaire comprising 21 poems. Veronika Harcsa, an artist keen to cross genre boundaries and stretch her own limitations, opens a new chapter in the performance history of this work in Hungary: never before has a jazz singer undertaken to perform this enormously complex work. Right up until the day of the concert, it remains a secret how she will interpret the concept of Sprechgesang, but at the same time we know of Péter Tornyai, who also writes ingenious arrangements, how he relates to the Schönberg-related performance method in his piece finalized in 2015. The melodic lines of the instrumental parts and the approximate relations of the notes to each other are defined, while the precise pitches are not.