2011-05-28 17:34:59

Bi-centenary concert in honour of Ferenc Liszt


(May 28, 2011) Pope Benedict XVI greeted the Hungarian President Pál Schmitt, and his retinue, as also the performing orchestra, at the end of a concert, Friday, in Vatican’s Paul VI audience hall, in honour of the Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Ferenc Liszt, on the bi-centenary of his birth, as also to mark the European Union Presidency of Hungary. After dwelling on the musical qualities of the pieces rendered, the Pope had a special word about the rendering of Psalm XIII, in which one hears the anguished cry of the psalmist repeated four times “How much longer will you forget me Lord?” It is the anguished cry of man and humanity in the face of the evil in the world. But the psalmist does not despair, and Liszt, being a man of faith shares in that hope when the psalmist breaks out into the cry “Let my heart rejoice in your saving help.”








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