1,025 result(s) for classical
Song Recital by Michael Volle, Palace of Arts Budapest, 14 June
- 14 Jun 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
In recent years, the Budapest Wagner Days festival has been enriched with new colours: in addition to works for the stage, it now also features a song recital performed, naturally, by a singer whose career and work are connected to the Wagnerian repertoire and who will be bringing a programme that is similarly well suited to the oeuvre of the great German composer of works for the musical stage. ...
'Wagner Magic I', Palace of Arts Budapest, 13 June
- 13 Jun 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Any encounter with Wagner's artistic output is always a festive experience.
This is true regardless of whether one is watching one of these works of total art in an exciting production with sets and costumes or if it is memorable excerpts from the composer's great works that we are bringing to life, like on this occasion.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde: ...
Párniczky Quartet, Budapest Music Center, 3 June
- 3 Jun 2021 8:01 PM
- classical
This repertoire was performed with the collaboration of the guitarist Frank Möbus and the tenorsaxophonist Daniel Erdmann at the MÜPA. In 2019 the Quartet has toured along with the bassist Carlos Bica and drummer Dejan Terzic.
Europe based four-piece Parniczky Quartet having forged a very unique signature sound that originates in jazz, contemporary classical and Hungarian folk music.
The ...
Károly Gáspár Trio: Philosophy – Album Debut Concert, Opus Jazz Club, 2 June
- 2 Jun 2021 1:51 PM
- contemporary
Pianist Károly Gáspár is one of the key figures in Hungarian jazz life. They play fresh and forward-looking music with their trio, which also respects the mainstream roots of jazz.
After his Fonogram Award-winning album The Outsider (2017) he released Salvation in 2019, with his own compositions ,one song by Jenő Horváth and a transcript of some of Charlie Haden's compositions.
This year, ...
'Carpathian Basin Festival', A38 Ship Budapest, 2 - 9 June
- 2 Jun 2021 1:16 PM
- entertainment
The Coffee Break Band (Kávészünet), which forms a bridge between pop culture and literary works, starts the 1Carpathian Basin Festival together with Misi Mező.
Hungarian Classical Music Day, Liszt Academy, 30 May
- 30 May 2021 7:35 PM
- classical
Being proud of the richness of Hungarian classical music, its old and new values, its great and its minor masters, its diversity and its inimitable traits, is anything other than some kind of narrow-minded nationalism.
In fact, quite the opposite because our music, the works of our 19th, 20th and 21st century composers, are to be found in the universal medium of European culture and classical ...
Hungarian Opinion: Gov't Tables Anti-Paedophile Bill
- 27 May 2021 10:45 AM
- http://www.budapost.eu
- current affairs
Commentators disagree on amendments to the penal code proposing stricter punishments for pedophiles. Child abusers will be registered in a searchable database and consumers of online child pornography will face prison sentences.
'An Evening of Bartók', Palace Of Arts, 26 May
- 26 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
The content and form of Concerto, the symphonic work Béla Bartók wrote in the United States, cannot be separated from his experience, his mood, in 1943, prior to the composition: he was constantly ill, was tormented by homesickness, and was worried over the fate of his homeland and Europe.
He had not been able to compose for three years. Then, at a time when he was hospitalized, he was ...
Kelemen Quartet Concert, Palace Of Arts Budapest, 23 May
- 23 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
After a break of nearly three years, Kelemen Quartet takes to the stage in a new form, though Barnabás Kelemen and Katalin Kokas did not turn their backs on the genre in recent times. They formed ad hoc ensembles with such great musicians as Vilde Frang (Norway), Nicolas Altstaedt (Germany), Mon Puo Lee (Taiwan) and Dmitry Smirnov (Russia).
As they now join forces with Greek violinist Jonian ...
Song Recital by Michael Volle, Palace of Arts Budapest, 14 June
- 14 Jun 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
In recent years, the Budapest Wagner Days festival has been enriched with new colours: in addition to works for the stage, it now also features a song recital performed, naturally, by a singer whose career and work are connected to the Wagnerian repertoire and who will be bringing a programme that is similarly well suited to the oeuvre of the great German composer of works for the musical stage. ...
'Wagner Magic I', Palace of Arts Budapest, 13 June
- 13 Jun 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Any encounter with Wagner's artistic output is always a festive experience.
This is true regardless of whether one is watching one of these works of total art in an exciting production with sets and costumes or if it is memorable excerpts from the composer's great works that we are bringing to life, like on this occasion.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde: ...
Párniczky Quartet, Budapest Music Center, 3 June
- 3 Jun 2021 8:01 PM
- classical
This repertoire was performed with the collaboration of the guitarist Frank Möbus and the tenorsaxophonist Daniel Erdmann at the MÜPA. In 2019 the Quartet has toured along with the bassist Carlos Bica and drummer Dejan Terzic.
Europe based four-piece Parniczky Quartet having forged a very unique signature sound that originates in jazz, contemporary classical and Hungarian folk music.
The ...
Károly Gáspár Trio: Philosophy – Album Debut Concert, Opus Jazz Club, 2 June
- 2 Jun 2021 1:51 PM
- contemporary
Pianist Károly Gáspár is one of the key figures in Hungarian jazz life. They play fresh and forward-looking music with their trio, which also respects the mainstream roots of jazz.
After his Fonogram Award-winning album The Outsider (2017) he released Salvation in 2019, with his own compositions ,one song by Jenő Horváth and a transcript of some of Charlie Haden's compositions.
This year, ...
'Carpathian Basin Festival', A38 Ship Budapest, 2 - 9 June
- 2 Jun 2021 1:16 PM
- entertainment
The Coffee Break Band (Kávészünet), which forms a bridge between pop culture and literary works, starts the 1Carpathian Basin Festival together with Misi Mező.
Hungarian Classical Music Day, Liszt Academy, 30 May
- 30 May 2021 7:35 PM
- classical
Being proud of the richness of Hungarian classical music, its old and new values, its great and its minor masters, its diversity and its inimitable traits, is anything other than some kind of narrow-minded nationalism.
In fact, quite the opposite because our music, the works of our 19th, 20th and 21st century composers, are to be found in the universal medium of European culture and classical ...
Hungarian Opinion: Gov't Tables Anti-Paedophile Bill
- 27 May 2021 10:45 AM
- http://www.budapost.eu
- current affairs
Commentators disagree on amendments to the penal code proposing stricter punishments for pedophiles. Child abusers will be registered in a searchable database and consumers of online child pornography will face prison sentences.
'An Evening of Bartók', Palace Of Arts, 26 May
- 26 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
The content and form of Concerto, the symphonic work Béla Bartók wrote in the United States, cannot be separated from his experience, his mood, in 1943, prior to the composition: he was constantly ill, was tormented by homesickness, and was worried over the fate of his homeland and Europe.
He had not been able to compose for three years. Then, at a time when he was hospitalized, he was ...
Kelemen Quartet Concert, Palace Of Arts Budapest, 23 May
- 23 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
After a break of nearly three years, Kelemen Quartet takes to the stage in a new form, though Barnabás Kelemen and Katalin Kokas did not turn their backs on the genre in recent times. They formed ad hoc ensembles with such great musicians as Vilde Frang (Norway), Nicolas Altstaedt (Germany), Mon Puo Lee (Taiwan) and Dmitry Smirnov (Russia).
As they now join forces with Greek violinist Jonian ...