Hamburger Camerata / Joanna Kamenarska / Delyana Lazarova

Intercultural understanding

Intercultural, international understanding, peaceful coexistence of all (lifestyles): what cannot be promoted often enough in the present day was a matter of course for many composers of the past. In his late »London« symphonies, Joseph Haydn brought together Hungarian folklore, Austrian court culture and pan-European art music – which also went down well in the English capital. The Hungarian Zoltán Kodály, in his research into rural peasant songs, in turn came across the realisation that there is much more in common in the musical traditions of the European peoples than one might think.