This concert opens our anniversary season, conducted by Finnegan Downie Dear, with an invitation to listen closely. For within these four works spanning three eras, one can discern astonishing connections – memories, premonitions, home and distant lands.

In his commemorative work for György Ligeti, György Kurtág looks back on a shared musical world. Béla Bartók’s ‘Divertimento’, composed in 1939 and a centrepiece of the CAMERATA’s repertoire, combines the folk music of his homeland with the dark omens of a time under threat.
Maurice Ravel , for his part, brings together Mozart, Basque sounds and jazz in his piano concerto – a dazzling blend brought to life by the piano virtuoso Alexandre Tharaud . And Mozart is also present in the work of Joseph Haydn: his Symphony in E flat major pays homage to his admired colleague whilst, at the same time, seeming to foreshadow Beethoven.

Four works, then, that look back, point forward and listen to one another across the centuries.

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 | 7.00 pm Buy tickets

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Programme
Béla Bartók | Divertimento for string orchestra Sz 113
Maurice Ravel | Concerto for piano and orchestra in G major
György Kurtág | Ligeti evszazada - Kalandozas a multban, Op. 48 (Austrian premiere)
Joseph Haydn | Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, Hob. I:103 ‘With the Drum Roll’

Cast
Alexandre Tharaud, piano
CAMERATA Salzburg
Finnegan Downie Dear, conductor