Heart-felt raptures — Baroque music and nigguns of the Baal Shem Tov
Do., 18. Dez.
|YUNG YiDiSH WIEN
with Anna Rákoczy (flute) and Dóra Pétery (harpsicord)
Time & Location
18. Dez. 2025, 19:30
YUNG YiDiSH WIEN, Street entrance, Lilienbrunngasse 18, 1020 Wien, Austria
About the event
This year's Chanuka concert by candle light features two internationally recognised expert interpreters of Baroque music, flautist Anna Rákóczy and harpsicord player Dóra Pétery. In this new programme they have been inspired to find a connection between Baroque music and Hasidic melodies (niggunim) of the Baal Shem Tov. They will play chamber music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Sigismund Weiss, arias of Georg Friedrich Handel, and nigunim (wordless songs) of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism. Sounds of two parallel worlds start a dialogue with each other - and with us, music lovers.
Anna Rákóczy is a freelanced flutist and artistic co-director of the Metrum Ensemble, currently living in Vienna and Budapest.
Her wide-ranging musical interests encompass classical and new music, improvisation, research, and she has also been a catalyst for many interdisciplinary productions. Her collaborations with renowned contemporary composers such as Barnabás Dukay, Ádám Kondor, Marián…