Saturday, September 30th
County Hall, 11.00 a.m.
Andrejszki Judit, baroque soprano
Takàcs Szilvia, harpsichord
In the Gate of East and West
Harpsichord music and Airs from the 17th-18th century
- Hungary
- Dances from Codex Cajoni
- Codex Vietoris: Magos kősziklának/ From High Cliff’
- Codex Cajoni: Bon jour de almor
- Codex Cajoni Igaz Messiás/ True Messiah
- Italy
- A. Valente: Lo ballo dell’Intorcia
- G. Picchi: Ballo ongaro – Todesca
- C. Monteverdi: Quel sguardo sdegnosetto
III. England
- M. Peerson: The Primerose
- M. Peerson: The Fall of the Leafe
- J. Dowland: Flow not so fast ye fountains
- Dublin Virginal Book: Romanesca
- J. Dowland: Come again
- France
- Louis Couperin: Chaconne
- Jean-Baptiste de Bousset: Pourquoy doux Rossignol
- Francois Couperin: Les Barricades Mistérieyses
- Germany
- G.P. Telemann: Das Glück
- G.F. Handel: Passacaglia in g-minor
- G.F. Handel: Piangero
Andrejszki Judit graduated as a student of organ master Lehotka Gábor. She trained in baroque voicetechnique from countertenor M. Bornus-Szczycinski in Poland. Her studies in Warsaw continued in Austria, England and Holland where she further specialized in historically informed performance and basso continuo accompaniment with renowned teachers.
She has been a member of Musica Profana, ambassadors of Hungarian musical culture. Judit is also member of the Corvina Consort vocal ensemble. In March 2023, she recived the Liszt Prize, the highest Hungarian state award in the field of music.
Takács Szilvia was born in Győr where she studies piano and composition at the conservatory. She started her harpsichord studies with Leon Berben, at the first Early Music Summer Academy organised in Hungary. She graduated with a harpsichordist honours degree from the Academy of Music in Budapest, from Anikó Horváth’s class in 2008. She had been studying the fortepiano since 2006. During her Academy years, she founded the Clavier Duo group, which aimed at presenting four-handed pieces and those written for two harpsichords or the fortepiano.