As in previous years, the 2025/2026 Ferencsik season ticket is aimed primarily at lovers of the Viennese classics. Once again it, offers a wealth of enriching experiences. From Joseph Haydn, we will hear the Symphony No. 87 in A major, the Notturno No. more
The third evening of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra’s Ferencsik season ticket begins with a work by a Swedish contemporary of Mozart’s,Joseph Martin Kraus’s Symphony in C minor. It continues with Joseph Haydn’s elegant and eloquent Violin Concerto in G major, before concluding after the interval with Beethoven’s lively Symphony No. 2. All three works represent the Classical style and the fact that one of them is not connected to Vienna, but the distant north – and is also a rarity – only makes the selection even more exciting. The line-up of performers is equally promising given that the conductor is a highly recognised representative of the international performance practice of early music and the founder of Venice Baroque, Andrea Marcon, while the soloist for the concerto is the French virtuoso of Armenian descent,Chouchane Siranossian.
What is a Classical work like that was not written by a Viennese or even an Austrian composer? We will find out on the third evening of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra’s Ferencsik season ticket, on which the superb Italian guest conductor, Andrea Marcon, who rose to global fame as the founder and leader of Venice Baroque, will first conduct Joseph Martin Kraus’s Symphony in C minor. The truth is that the composer was not born Swedish, but German,and only moved to Sweden aged 21, where he lived until his death at the age of 36. Those with their wits about them might notice that he lived almost exactly the same number of years as the composer of The Magic Flute, and it will come as even more of a surprise to learn that he was born in the same year, 1756, as his immortal contemporary. It is no wonder then that he is referred to as “the Swedish Mozart”. For the second item on the programme, the French virtuoso of Armenian descent Chouchane Siranossian will perform Haydn’s Violin Concerto in G major, while the interval will be followed by the exuberant Symphony No. 2 by the latest great master of the Viennese Classical period, Beethoven.
Joseph Martin KRAUS: Symphony in C minor, VB 142
Joseph HAYDN: Violin Concerto in G major, Hob. VIIa:4
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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Chouchane Siranossian violin
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
As in previous years, the 2025/2026 Ferencsik season ticket is aimed primarily at lovers of the Viennese classics. Once again it, offers a wealth of enriching experiences. From Joseph Haydn, we will hear the Symphony No. 87 in A major, the Notturno No. 5 in C major, the “Clock” symphony and the Violin Concerto No. 4 in G major. The works by Mozart to be played include the Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major and, on the penultimate evening of the subscription, an all-Mozart programme consisting of the overture to Don Giovanni, the Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, the “Great” Symphony No. 40 in G minor, with the “Linz Symphony” featured on the final night. Representing Beethoven on the programme for the third concert will be his Second Symphony.
Interspersed among these greatest of composers will be lesser-known ones who spoke the same common musical language of the time. It is in this spirit that we will also hear music by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, as well as pieces by the English composer William Boyce, who hails from the same generation as Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Sweden’s Joseph Martin Kraus, born in the same year as Mozart. The final concert expands the focus into the 19th century with the oboe concerto that the Italian Antonio Pasculli based on themes by Donizetti, as well as Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture and Fifth Symphony.
This season ticket brings to the stage such instrumental soloists as the trumpet wizard Gábor Boldoczki, horn player László Gál Jr, the outstanding French violin virtuoso Chouchane Siranossian and the pianist Mihály Berecz, with a chance at the last concert for us all to enjoy François Leleux not only conducting, but, as usual, also playing his oboe. In addition to György Vashegyi, who will take the podium for two of the concerts, we will also get to meet some other excellent conductors specialising in early music like the Australian Benjamin Bayl and Italy’s Andrea Marcon.
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