PREMIER 1 / Amadinda Percussion Group

Aurél Holló - Zoltán Váczi: Our Beloved Masters / beFORe JOHN1 – world premiere

 

Featuring: Amadinda Percussion Group, Concerto Budapest

Conductor: András Keller

The programme series of Aurél Holló and Zoltán Váczi, members of Amadinda Percussion Group, is a veritable cavalcade of percussion cultures and trends, the first pieces of which were created in the mid-1990s. However, beFORe JOHN finally becomes complete at the joint programme of Amadinda and Concerto Budapest. Out of the nine different works, it was the opening composition that was completed last (and now premieres here), and certainly this will give a role to the number once symbolizing absolute order. The number is 153, mentioned by Pythagoreans and the Bible, and although the symbolic power of it has faded today, still it is revived from every piece of the series. At the same time, naturally, beFORe JOHN displaying percussion instrument traditions and techniques is a tribute to the masters.  As the authors put it: “As human life progresses, and with possible changes in role models, pictures of earlier masters in us do not pass, even through the projection of these one on another, indeed, everybody preserves within themselves the impression of a ‘face’, which is not actually the face of any of their masters.  In our case, the JOHN featuring in the title means (symbolizes) the impression of this internal ‘master image’.”