WH and their guests – Joy delights in joy
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WH and their guests – Joy delights in joy
The songs are performed in their original language, and the event is conducted in Hungarian.
“Thou single wilt prove none”
“You are nobody on your own”
(Shakespeare, Sonnet 8, translated by Lőrinc Szabó)
WH last gave a sold-out concert at the Hungarian House of Music in 2023, with Ádám Nádasdy providing special commentary. Their 2026 Epiphany concert will focus, as always, on Shakespeare's sonnets and songs, but this time with a special polyphonic twist.
The group, which experiments with projects touching on various musical genres, was founded in 2006 by cellist and composer Albert Márkos – also the creator of numerous theatrical scores – with talented figures known from a wide variety of areas of the Hungarian music scene. Samu Gryllus plays the guitar, Hunor G. Szabó plays the drums, and Sena Dagadu sings the original Shakespeare texts, which are more than four hundred years old.
Three women and three men meet on stage, with Tara Khozein and Anastasia Razvaljajeva as guests of the band. In this triple stage rendezvous, musical forms and human connections mirror each other: canon, imitation, antiphony, through which the voices not only run alongside each other, but also react to each other, echo each other, cross each other – responding to each other like the gaze of two people, the meeting of two joys. The duet thus becomes a multiplication of each other – because joy, if it is real, responds to joy.
Or, as Shakespeare says: joy delights in joy.
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