Judit Baracskai and Sára Banai’s Lieder Evening / CAFe 2018

R. Strauss: Zueignung

R. Strauss: Morgen

Ádám Cser: Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends

Ádám Cser: Schattenleben

Petrovics: Erdő, mért hajladozol? (Why Do You Sway, Forest?) – Cantata No. 1 (Egyedül az erdőben / Alone in the Forest)

Árpád Balázs: Tavaszi szeretők dala (Spring Lovers’ Song)

Árpád Balázs: Ringató (Swaying)

Sára Iván: Two songs from the cycle, Tiszai dalok (Tisza Songs)

Sándor Balassa: Mikor az utcán átment a kedves (When My Sweetheart Crossed the Street)

Liszt: Oh! Quand je dors

Péter Zombola: Robogó szekerek (Rumbling Wagons)

Douglas Moore: The Ballad of Baby Doe – Willow Song – Baby Doe’s aria

Árpád Solti: Várjon (Wait)

Péter Tóth: Árgyélus királyfi (Prince Árgyélus) – Hah, átok, mit látok (‘Tis a Curse I See) – Mortadella’s aria

Péter Tóth: Árgyélus királyfi (Prince Árgyélus) – Sipirc, Seperc, Kalamajk – Mortadella’s aria

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia – Give Him This Orchid – Lucretia’s aria

Bernstein: Candide – Glitter and Be Gay – Cunegonde’s aria

Featuring: Ferenc Koczka – piano

Hungarian audiences became aware of Judit Baracskai, a young singer born in Vojvodina, in 2016, when she won the International Simándy József Singing Competition as the youngest contestant of her category, and she also picked up six special prizes. The same year she finished first at the Petrovics Emil Contemporary Singing Competition, as well as at the Vitkay Kovács Vera International Singing Competition of Novi Sad, coming away with the highest possible number of jury points and the main prize.

Sára Banai also has important competition wins to her credit, starting with a shared first prize at the 2014 Lav Mirski International Singing Competition in Croatia. In the spring of 2017 she won a special prize at the international J. E. J. Reszke Vocal Competition, went on to sing her first operatic role in the autumn in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at the Szeged National Theatre, and later appeared in another Rossini role at the Győr National Theatre.

The two singers have prepared a diverse programme that covers many styles from late Romanticism to contemporary music, with the compositions of Richard Strauss, Emil Petrovics, Leonard Bernstein, Douglas Moore, and Péter Tóth.