Due to an international co-operation, on the occasion of Mahler’s 150th birthday thast we celebrate this year as a Joint programme of Hungarofest Nonprofit Ltd. KLASSZ Music Office and Palace of Arts – Budapest, in cooperation with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and the Czech Philharmonic the audience can hear a superb concert of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra conducted by Christoph Eschenbach in „Mahler’s cities”, in Hamburg, Prague and Budapest as all three cities played an important role in the life of the great composer: he was the music director of the Hungarian Opera House in Budapest for three years, the principal conductor of the Hamburg Theater’s orchestra, and conducting a very successful premiere of his Symphony No. 7 in Prague.

On 2 July 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall of the Palace of Arts the audience can listen to his Symphony No.1 in D major, played by the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra and conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, along with Ferenc Erkel’s Overture from his opera Hunyadi László, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 4 in C major, K 338."

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