48 result(s) for bartók spring festival
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 ...
Budapest Spring Festival, Until 5 April
- 2 Apr 2010 3:35 AM
- community & culture
"The Budapest Spring Festival is Hungary's most prestigious cultural festival. For a month from the middle of March it presents world stars, famous artists, and talented young performers.
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 ...
Budapest Spring Festival, Until 5 April
- 2 Apr 2010 3:35 AM
- community & culture
"The Budapest Spring Festival is Hungary's most prestigious cultural festival. For a month from the middle of March it presents world stars, famous artists, and talented young performers.