Name: Closing concert - Open green wing
Start: 2025-08-24T15:30:00
Location: Pannonhalma Archabbey

Celebrate the Chamber Orchestra of Europe's 2025 Summer Festival with a symphony of diverse cultures and genres. This year's festival featured a series of captivating concerts, showcasing the works of renowned composers such as Mozart, Mendelssohn, Gershwin, and Stravinsky. With performances graced by acclaimed artists, including Emily D'Angelo, Constantinos Carydis, and Golda Schultz, the event was a harmonious fusion of classical traditions and modern interpretations, set against the picturesque backdrops of iconic European venues.

A Symphony of Cultures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe's 2025 Summer Festival

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

It would be difficult to find more apt words for the relationship between music and nature, for expressing the power of singing, for describing the soaring joy of making music together, for conveying the velvety farewell of an uplifting festival that lives with us for days, than Sándor Weöres' words that encompass universes: "open green wing". This spaciousness, this naturalness and this airiness permeate the closing concert, where songs are performed with and without lyrics, and where the resident composer, Jörg Widmann, and the two artistic directors, Izabella Simon and Dénes Várjon, also perform solo, before, after a few chamber pieces, a true symphonic sound closes the 2025 Arcus Temporum. Mendelssohn's songs are the focus of the concert. In the pieces of Songs Without Lyrics, the piano really sings. With Jörg Widmann's homage, Mendelssohn's sounds receive a special additional layer, just as songs about holiness, fear, loneliness and sunshine form an exciting unity with melodies without words. Finally, the Basilica lets the listeners go on their way with the sounds of liberated joy.

Closing concert - Open green wing

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