ATMEN - Rilke 150
8 December 2025. 7:30 pm
Budapest Music Center - Library
1093 Budapest, Mátyás utca 8.
To mark the 150th anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke's birth, the concert will feature music written to the poet's poems, as well as pieces reflecting Rilke's sensuality and mysticism.
As in Debussy's early songs, Rilke's world shines through in Dai Fujikura's enigmatic Bright Codes for solo piano.
Schoenberg's Am Strand, set to a poem by Rilke, captures the mood of the evening:
"The flood is over / the night wind brings / the memories and the waves / that disappeared in the sand."
Fujikura composed a piece for Greenberg to be performed during the evening, and Károlyi premiered Böttger's songs to Rilke's poems in Switzerland in 2024.
[vl]
Claude Debussy (1862-1918):
Mandoline (1882)
Nuit d’étoiles (1880) (1862-1918)
Beau soir (1880, rev. 1891)
Romance (1891)
Les Cloches (1885)
Fantoches (1891)
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951):
Der verlorene Haufen, op. 12, no. 2 (1907)
Am Strand, op. post (1909)
Dai Fujikura (1974):
Bright Codes (2015-2018) - Hungarian premiere
Code C
Code B
Code D
Code A
Peter Lieberson (1946-2011):
1. O ihr Zärtlichen
2. Atmen, du unsichtbares Gedicht!
3. Wolle die Wandlung
4. Blumenmuskel, der der Anemone
5. Stiller Freund - Hungarian premiere
Thomas Böttger (1957):
Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke (2020) - Hungarian premiere
1. Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen
2. Die Liebenden
3. Das war ein spätes Sich-Umsonnen
Katalin Károlyi - mezzo soprano
Jacob Greenberg - piano
Oszkár Varga - viola
Free entry! Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
