232 result(s) for classical music concerts
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 ...
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.
István Várdai & Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Palace Of Arts, 10 May
- 10 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
The modern accepted principles for structuring concert programmes were developed in the second half of the 20th century.
Prior to that, a more liberal logic for planning concerts prevailed. It used to be common to play just one or two movements from longer works or to embellish a lengthy work by inserting excerpts from another piece in the middle and then resuming the original music as though ...
Kidz Academy – Music In Nature, Liszt Academy, 25 April
- 25 Apr 2021 11:00 AM
- contemporary
We have no idea how music actually came about but many believe that at some time in the distant past, man discovered the beauty of the voices of nature and tried to mimic them with his own tools.
However it happened, in the artistic music also called ‘classical’, nature always played an important role, as did the question of how the world around us can be evoked with the help of music.
In ...
Handel: Messiah, Palace of Arts, 2 April
- 2 Apr 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Messiah (HWV 56) remains the most popular work of George Frideric Handel and one of the world's most frequently played oratorios. It first premièred on 13 April 1742 in Dublin, and continued its triumphal run with concerts in London the following year.
This performance brings the full-length version from Dublin and early London performances (from around 1742/43) of this masterpiece to the ...
Hommage à Johann Sebastian Bach, Palace Of Arts, 20 March
- 20 Mar 2021 7:00 PM
- classical
Johann Sebastian Bach was born 336 years ago. On this occasion, Müpa Budapest will select recordings of its previous Bach concerts over two evenings.
The Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Müpa Budapest created a new tradition with the marathon, this concert format hitherto unknown in Hungary.
Ever since, music-lovers have considered this event to be a red-letter day on the concert ...
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 ...
Mozart Day By Concerto Budapest, Liszt Academy, 7 March
- 7 Mar 2021 11:00 AM
- classical
Mozart composed more than 600 works, many of which are acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music.
He is considered among the greatest classical composers of all time, and his influence on Western music is profound.
Ludwig van Beethoven composed his early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
István Várdai & Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Palace Of Arts, 10 May
- 10 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
The modern accepted principles for structuring concert programmes were developed in the second half of the 20th century.
Prior to that, a more liberal logic for planning concerts prevailed. It used to be common to play just one or two movements from longer works or to embellish a lengthy work by inserting excerpts from another piece in the middle and then resuming the original music as though ...
Kidz Academy – Music In Nature, Liszt Academy, 25 April
- 25 Apr 2021 11:00 AM
- contemporary
We have no idea how music actually came about but many believe that at some time in the distant past, man discovered the beauty of the voices of nature and tried to mimic them with his own tools.
However it happened, in the artistic music also called ‘classical’, nature always played an important role, as did the question of how the world around us can be evoked with the help of music.
In ...
Handel: Messiah, Palace of Arts, 2 April
- 2 Apr 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Messiah (HWV 56) remains the most popular work of George Frideric Handel and one of the world's most frequently played oratorios. It first premièred on 13 April 1742 in Dublin, and continued its triumphal run with concerts in London the following year.
This performance brings the full-length version from Dublin and early London performances (from around 1742/43) of this masterpiece to the ...
Hommage à Johann Sebastian Bach, Palace Of Arts, 20 March
- 20 Mar 2021 7:00 PM
- classical
Johann Sebastian Bach was born 336 years ago. On this occasion, Müpa Budapest will select recordings of its previous Bach concerts over two evenings.
The Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Müpa Budapest created a new tradition with the marathon, this concert format hitherto unknown in Hungary.
Ever since, music-lovers have considered this event to be a red-letter day on the concert ...
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 ...
Mozart Day By Concerto Budapest, Liszt Academy, 7 March
- 7 Mar 2021 11:00 AM
- classical
Mozart composed more than 600 works, many of which are acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music.
He is considered among the greatest classical composers of all time, and his influence on Western music is profound.
Ludwig van Beethoven composed his early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a ...
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 ...