214 result(s) for bartók festival
'Get Closer' Budapest Jazz Fest, MoMKult, 22 - 24 April 2016
- 11 Apr 2016 9:04 AM
- entertainment
In the recent decades, Budapest has become an important point on the music map of Europe. There are numerous festivals and concert series which run every year in the capital, giving high-quality cultural experiences for Hungarians and foreign visitors too.
Budapest Festival Orchestra: 2017 Season Overview
- 28 Mar 2016 5:00 AM
- community & culture
The programme Iván Fischer has compiled will guide audiences through the bohemian world of the artists of Montmartre: audiences will encounter the impressionists Debussy and Ravel alongside the emotional and endearing eccentric Erik Satie; a journey to the second half of the twentieth century will lead to Henri Dutilleux, whose centenary was celebrated by the musical world in January 2016.
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mupa, 25 February
- 21 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
Besides works for performance in the concert hall and on the musical stage, Dmitri Shostakovich had a penchant for writing incidental music for the stage and film scores.
Documentary Film: György Kurtág 90, Mupa Budapest, 20 February
- 17 Feb 2016 8:06 AM
- community & culture
"Our whole life is nothing more than a singular pilgrimage to rediscover the lost child within us,” György Kurtág once said. The ambivalent fascination, the complete openness and the fiery adoration that one or other figure from music history was able to inspire in the composer suggest that he was successfully reunited with the child in question.
Xpat Preview: Hungary's Top 7 Cultural Events In 2016
- 4 Feb 2016 11:45 AM
- community & culture
Classic music, folk traditions, contemporary cinema and much more – for sure a great selection of programmes will characterize 2016! We have collected 7 of the most exciting ones below, among them unusual folklore festivals, cool art programmes, and open-air opera events.
Grand Chinese New Year Concert, Mupa Budapest, 4 February
- 4 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
The 2016 programme for Müpa Budapest's now customary and increasingly popular Chinese New Year concerts provides an introduction to different regions of the enormous country, and the traditional music of their various ethnic groups played on traditional instruments that are still used to this day, while also illustrating the ever closer points of contact between Chinese and Western music.
Romanticism Day & Night, Mupa Budapest, 31 January
- 21 Jan 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
On Sunday 31 January, Müpa and the Budapest Festival Orchestra will be presenting their ninth music Marathon; the concerts start early and will fill Müpa’s concert halls non-stop into the evening. For the first time, the Marathon will feature not one but two composers: the great romantics, Mendelssohn and Schumann.
Liszt, Bartók, China In Focus At 2016 Budapest Spring Festival
- 20 Nov 2015 8:06 AM
- current affairs
The oeuvre of Ferenc Liszt, works by Béla Bartók and Chinese culture will be in focus at the Budapest Spring Festival to be held between April 8 and 24 next year. Liszt is always in focus at Hungary’s largest and most prestigious cultural festival, and Bartók will be celebrated next year because 2016 marks the 135th anniversary of his birth, head of the festival organising body Csaba Kael, who is ...
David Helfgott Concert, Budapest Sportaréna, 10 November
- 4 Nov 2015 8:16 AM
- entertainment
David Helfgott was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1947. He showed extraordinary pianistic ability from an early age, winning the state finals of the ABC’s Instrumental & Vocal Competition six times.
'Get Closer' Budapest Jazz Fest, MoMKult, 22 - 24 April 2016
- 11 Apr 2016 9:04 AM
- entertainment
In the recent decades, Budapest has become an important point on the music map of Europe. There are numerous festivals and concert series which run every year in the capital, giving high-quality cultural experiences for Hungarians and foreign visitors too.
Budapest Festival Orchestra: 2017 Season Overview
- 28 Mar 2016 5:00 AM
- community & culture
The programme Iván Fischer has compiled will guide audiences through the bohemian world of the artists of Montmartre: audiences will encounter the impressionists Debussy and Ravel alongside the emotional and endearing eccentric Erik Satie; a journey to the second half of the twentieth century will lead to Henri Dutilleux, whose centenary was celebrated by the musical world in January 2016.
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mupa, 25 February
- 21 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
Besides works for performance in the concert hall and on the musical stage, Dmitri Shostakovich had a penchant for writing incidental music for the stage and film scores.
Documentary Film: György Kurtág 90, Mupa Budapest, 20 February
- 17 Feb 2016 8:06 AM
- community & culture
"Our whole life is nothing more than a singular pilgrimage to rediscover the lost child within us,” György Kurtág once said. The ambivalent fascination, the complete openness and the fiery adoration that one or other figure from music history was able to inspire in the composer suggest that he was successfully reunited with the child in question.
Xpat Preview: Hungary's Top 7 Cultural Events In 2016
- 4 Feb 2016 11:45 AM
- community & culture
Classic music, folk traditions, contemporary cinema and much more – for sure a great selection of programmes will characterize 2016! We have collected 7 of the most exciting ones below, among them unusual folklore festivals, cool art programmes, and open-air opera events.
Grand Chinese New Year Concert, Mupa Budapest, 4 February
- 4 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
The 2016 programme for Müpa Budapest's now customary and increasingly popular Chinese New Year concerts provides an introduction to different regions of the enormous country, and the traditional music of their various ethnic groups played on traditional instruments that are still used to this day, while also illustrating the ever closer points of contact between Chinese and Western music.
Romanticism Day & Night, Mupa Budapest, 31 January
- 21 Jan 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
On Sunday 31 January, Müpa and the Budapest Festival Orchestra will be presenting their ninth music Marathon; the concerts start early and will fill Müpa’s concert halls non-stop into the evening. For the first time, the Marathon will feature not one but two composers: the great romantics, Mendelssohn and Schumann.
Liszt, Bartók, China In Focus At 2016 Budapest Spring Festival
- 20 Nov 2015 8:06 AM
- current affairs
The oeuvre of Ferenc Liszt, works by Béla Bartók and Chinese culture will be in focus at the Budapest Spring Festival to be held between April 8 and 24 next year. Liszt is always in focus at Hungary’s largest and most prestigious cultural festival, and Bartók will be celebrated next year because 2016 marks the 135th anniversary of his birth, head of the festival organising body Csaba Kael, who is ...
David Helfgott Concert, Budapest Sportaréna, 10 November
- 4 Nov 2015 8:16 AM
- entertainment
David Helfgott was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1947. He showed extraordinary pianistic ability from an early age, winning the state finals of the ABC’s Instrumental & Vocal Competition six times.