91 result(s) for baroque concert
Budapest Festival Orchestra Reopens, Season Passes Go On Sale For Next Season
- 11 May 2021 4:02 PM
- community & culture
“We are very much looking forward to being able to play in front of a live audience again,” says BFO music director Iván Fischer, who has once again compiled a diverse program for the upcoming 2021-2022 season, featuring familiar works as well as exciting new pieces.
René Jacobs & Kammerorchester Basel, Palace Of Arts Budapest, 8 May
- 8 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Streamed from their own concert hall, the performance of the Kammerorchester Basel will feature great solo singers. The celebrated ensemble is as much at home in the historically informed performance of baroque music as in contemporary music.
It bears testimony to the orchestra's commitment to Haydn's work that by 2032, the composer's 300th birthday, they and the Italian Il Giardino Armonico ...
Klára Kolonits Aria Recital, Eiffel Art Studios, 24 April
- 24 Apr 2021 8:00 PM
- classical
Coloratura soprano Klára Kolonits has enchanted her Hungarian audience for almost two decades in roles of heroines by Mozart, Meyerbeer, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Offenbach and Erkel.
She has also made a name in several countries of Europe, where she has performed her most iconic roles such as the Queen of the Night, Luisa Miller or Violetta Valéry.
Beside operas, she can frequently be ...
Ludovic Tézier & Guests Sing Arias @ Palace Of Arts, 13 March
- 13 Mar 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Astonishing chapters of opera history: Viennese Classicism, bel canto, the grand large-scale mature style of the 19th century, and the music of turn-of-the-century Italy, along with a world-famous French baritone joined by a versatile soprano countrywoman of his and a celebrated Mexican tenor.
It is an irresistably appealing offering that an immensely experienced conductor, steeped in ...
Requiem, Palace Of Arts Budapest, 12 March
- 12 Mar 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Although in the last 30 years it was quite unusual for a symphony orchestra to start a concert with works by Bach, 20 years earlier this would not have been surprising at all. With the spread of the historically informed performance movement, modern orchestras 'withdrew' from the Baroque repertoire. Today, however, they are reclaiming this area.
The second half of the Hungarian National ...
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Liszt Academy, 10 March
- 10 Mar 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Pavel Fischer was born in Zlín (Czech Republic) in 1965. He hails from a musical family background, his father, Eduard Fischer, being a well-known composer and conductor.
Since 2007 Pavel has been gaining recognition as a composer. His first string quartet ‘Morava’ was commissioned and premiered at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2008, his further two string quartets being premiered at the Lake ...
Baroque Concert By Budapest Festival Orchestra, 5 March
- 5 Mar 2021 7:45 PM
- classical
Bach: a dynasty of genuinely gifted musicians. The “most versatile and outstanding figure of Baroque violin playing,” and the musician directing BFO’s early music concerts for years, Midori Seiler has created a program featuring works by four members of the Bach family.
In addition to playing his solo for the violin concerto which he reconstructed, resident BFO harpsichordist Soma Dinyés will ...
New Bartók Spring Festival In Budapest To Feature International Stars
- 4 Mar 2021 9:06 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- community & culture
Hungary will launch a new festival celebrating 20th century composer-pianist Béla Bartók this spring, the director of the Palace of Arts (MÜPA), the festival organiser, said.
Ligeti Ensemble - Online Concert Broadcast
- 30 Jan 2021 7:30 PM
- contemporary
There are nearly a hundred years between the first and later pieces featured in tonight's concert of the Ligeti Ensemble, yet the pieces that evoke earlier works or styles outside classical music lead even beyond the music of the 20th-21st century.
Bartók's composition was inspired by the asymmetrical rhythm of Bulgarian folk music, Stravinsky's rarely heard ballet was written in Neo-Baroque ...
Budapest Festival Orchestra Reopens, Season Passes Go On Sale For Next Season
- 11 May 2021 4:02 PM
- community & culture
“We are very much looking forward to being able to play in front of a live audience again,” says BFO music director Iván Fischer, who has once again compiled a diverse program for the upcoming 2021-2022 season, featuring familiar works as well as exciting new pieces.
René Jacobs & Kammerorchester Basel, Palace Of Arts Budapest, 8 May
- 8 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Streamed from their own concert hall, the performance of the Kammerorchester Basel will feature great solo singers. The celebrated ensemble is as much at home in the historically informed performance of baroque music as in contemporary music.
It bears testimony to the orchestra's commitment to Haydn's work that by 2032, the composer's 300th birthday, they and the Italian Il Giardino Armonico ...
Klára Kolonits Aria Recital, Eiffel Art Studios, 24 April
- 24 Apr 2021 8:00 PM
- classical
Coloratura soprano Klára Kolonits has enchanted her Hungarian audience for almost two decades in roles of heroines by Mozart, Meyerbeer, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Offenbach and Erkel.
She has also made a name in several countries of Europe, where she has performed her most iconic roles such as the Queen of the Night, Luisa Miller or Violetta Valéry.
Beside operas, she can frequently be ...
Ludovic Tézier & Guests Sing Arias @ Palace Of Arts, 13 March
- 13 Mar 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Astonishing chapters of opera history: Viennese Classicism, bel canto, the grand large-scale mature style of the 19th century, and the music of turn-of-the-century Italy, along with a world-famous French baritone joined by a versatile soprano countrywoman of his and a celebrated Mexican tenor.
It is an irresistably appealing offering that an immensely experienced conductor, steeped in ...
Requiem, Palace Of Arts Budapest, 12 March
- 12 Mar 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Although in the last 30 years it was quite unusual for a symphony orchestra to start a concert with works by Bach, 20 years earlier this would not have been surprising at all. With the spread of the historically informed performance movement, modern orchestras 'withdrew' from the Baroque repertoire. Today, however, they are reclaiming this area.
The second half of the Hungarian National ...
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Liszt Academy, 10 March
- 10 Mar 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Pavel Fischer was born in Zlín (Czech Republic) in 1965. He hails from a musical family background, his father, Eduard Fischer, being a well-known composer and conductor.
Since 2007 Pavel has been gaining recognition as a composer. His first string quartet ‘Morava’ was commissioned and premiered at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2008, his further two string quartets being premiered at the Lake ...
Baroque Concert By Budapest Festival Orchestra, 5 March
- 5 Mar 2021 7:45 PM
- classical
Bach: a dynasty of genuinely gifted musicians. The “most versatile and outstanding figure of Baroque violin playing,” and the musician directing BFO’s early music concerts for years, Midori Seiler has created a program featuring works by four members of the Bach family.
In addition to playing his solo for the violin concerto which he reconstructed, resident BFO harpsichordist Soma Dinyés will ...
New Bartók Spring Festival In Budapest To Feature International Stars
- 4 Mar 2021 9:06 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- community & culture
Hungary will launch a new festival celebrating 20th century composer-pianist Béla Bartók this spring, the director of the Palace of Arts (MÜPA), the festival organiser, said.
Ligeti Ensemble - Online Concert Broadcast
- 30 Jan 2021 7:30 PM
- contemporary
There are nearly a hundred years between the first and later pieces featured in tonight's concert of the Ligeti Ensemble, yet the pieces that evoke earlier works or styles outside classical music lead even beyond the music of the 20th-21st century.
Bartók's composition was inspired by the asymmetrical rhythm of Bulgarian folk music, Stravinsky's rarely heard ballet was written in Neo-Baroque ...