110 result(s) for bartók festival in Community & Culture
Looking Back On The Liszt Year In Hungary - In A Nutshell
- 27 Mar 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"In 2011 hundreds of concerts, sereval exhibitions, publications and commemorating events were dedicated to Ferenc Liszt, born 200 years ago. Although we could not be present everywhere, we have covered most of the events in narrative or in pictures.
Handel: Hercules, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 March
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Even by Handel’s standards for high-speed composition, Hercules was completed in record time. Taking the story of Sophocles’s Women of Trachis and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as his basis, the composer began writing the work on 19 July 1744 and finished on 21 August. In the meantime, he sent teasing letters to Charles Jennens, the librettist of the work (and of the oratorio Belshazzar), urging him to ...
Opening Concert Of The Budapest Spring Festival, National Concert Hall, 16 March
- 14 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
“I am very glad to be able to tell you that your viola concerto is ready in draft, so that only the score has to be written, which means a purely mechanical work, so to speak. If nothing happens, I can be through in 5 or 6 weeks,” wrote Bartók to violist William Primrose. The score, however, was never written, and Bartók’s last work remained a torso – some even consider it one of the most ...
The Great Johann Strauss Gala , National Concert Hall Budapest, 3 January
- 2 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Enjoy the magical atmosphere of 19th century Vienna in the company of the Strauss Festival Orchestra, which will performing a selection of waltzes, marches and polkas with the Strauss Ballet Ensemble. One of the world’s most popular New Year concert shows returns to Hungary, on this occasion for two gala performances that promise a wonderful experience for all the family.
Piano Recital By Zoltán Kocsis, National Concert Hall Budapest, 8 December
- 7 Dec 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"Zoltán Kocsis launched his career at the age of 18 by winning Hungarian Radio’s Beethoven competition. Within a few years, he had exploded onto the international stage with invitations to perform in the great musical centres. He was invited by Richter to his festival in France and they gave a concert of duets. He played with the world’s great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic ...
'String Quartet Festival', Fehérvárcsurgó, 24 - 26 September
- 24 Sep 2010 3:00 AM
- community & culture
"We have the pleasure to inform you of the following event: '1. European String Quartet Festival', at Károlyi Mansion, Fehérvárcsurgó from 24-26 September 2010. Musical director: Georges Zeisel
'Budapest Mahler Festival 2010', Palace Of Arts Budapest, Until 27 September
- 24 Sep 2010 2:00 AM
- community & culture
"We welcome once again to Budapest the grandson of Ernő Dohnányi who unlike his genius relative, is also at home in contemporary music. Celebrating his eighty-first birthday the day before the concert, he still exhibits an open mindedness that would shame many a youngster and remains full of plans.
Gala Concert Of The 19th Budapest International Wine And Champagne Festival
- 15 Sep 2010 2:00 AM
- community & culture
"Ferenc Erkel was born in 1810. He began his career as a pianist and teacher in Kolozsvár (now Cluj in Romania). He wrote his first opera in 1840, Mária Báthori and then won the competition to set Kölcey’s Hymn to music and it remains Hungary’s national anthem.
'Mahler's Cities' Palace Of Arts, 2 July
- 1 Jul 2010 1:00 AM
- community & culture
"One of the nicest delicacies of classical music can be tasted on 2 July 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall of the Palace of Arts that is organized on the occasion of Mahler’s 150th birthday. MAHLER’S CITIES will be performed by the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra and conducted by Christoph Eschenbach in three cities, in Hamburg, Prague and Budapest.
Looking Back On The Liszt Year In Hungary - In A Nutshell
- 27 Mar 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"In 2011 hundreds of concerts, sereval exhibitions, publications and commemorating events were dedicated to Ferenc Liszt, born 200 years ago. Although we could not be present everywhere, we have covered most of the events in narrative or in pictures.
Handel: Hercules, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 March
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Even by Handel’s standards for high-speed composition, Hercules was completed in record time. Taking the story of Sophocles’s Women of Trachis and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as his basis, the composer began writing the work on 19 July 1744 and finished on 21 August. In the meantime, he sent teasing letters to Charles Jennens, the librettist of the work (and of the oratorio Belshazzar), urging him to ...
Opening Concert Of The Budapest Spring Festival, National Concert Hall, 16 March
- 14 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
“I am very glad to be able to tell you that your viola concerto is ready in draft, so that only the score has to be written, which means a purely mechanical work, so to speak. If nothing happens, I can be through in 5 or 6 weeks,” wrote Bartók to violist William Primrose. The score, however, was never written, and Bartók’s last work remained a torso – some even consider it one of the most ...
The Great Johann Strauss Gala , National Concert Hall Budapest, 3 January
- 2 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Enjoy the magical atmosphere of 19th century Vienna in the company of the Strauss Festival Orchestra, which will performing a selection of waltzes, marches and polkas with the Strauss Ballet Ensemble. One of the world’s most popular New Year concert shows returns to Hungary, on this occasion for two gala performances that promise a wonderful experience for all the family.
Piano Recital By Zoltán Kocsis, National Concert Hall Budapest, 8 December
- 7 Dec 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"Zoltán Kocsis launched his career at the age of 18 by winning Hungarian Radio’s Beethoven competition. Within a few years, he had exploded onto the international stage with invitations to perform in the great musical centres. He was invited by Richter to his festival in France and they gave a concert of duets. He played with the world’s great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic ...
'String Quartet Festival', Fehérvárcsurgó, 24 - 26 September
- 24 Sep 2010 3:00 AM
- community & culture
"We have the pleasure to inform you of the following event: '1. European String Quartet Festival', at Károlyi Mansion, Fehérvárcsurgó from 24-26 September 2010. Musical director: Georges Zeisel
'Budapest Mahler Festival 2010', Palace Of Arts Budapest, Until 27 September
- 24 Sep 2010 2:00 AM
- community & culture
"We welcome once again to Budapest the grandson of Ernő Dohnányi who unlike his genius relative, is also at home in contemporary music. Celebrating his eighty-first birthday the day before the concert, he still exhibits an open mindedness that would shame many a youngster and remains full of plans.
Gala Concert Of The 19th Budapest International Wine And Champagne Festival
- 15 Sep 2010 2:00 AM
- community & culture
"Ferenc Erkel was born in 1810. He began his career as a pianist and teacher in Kolozsvár (now Cluj in Romania). He wrote his first opera in 1840, Mária Báthori and then won the competition to set Kölcey’s Hymn to music and it remains Hungary’s national anthem.
'Mahler's Cities' Palace Of Arts, 2 July
- 1 Jul 2010 1:00 AM
- community & culture
"One of the nicest delicacies of classical music can be tasted on 2 July 2010 at 7.30 pm in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall of the Palace of Arts that is organized on the occasion of Mahler’s 150th birthday. MAHLER’S CITIES will be performed by the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra and conducted by Christoph Eschenbach in three cities, in Hamburg, Prague and Budapest.