22 result(s) for hungarian conductor in Events
St Matthew Passion, Opera House Budapest, 19 April
- 19 Apr 2025 7:00 PM
- classical
The Saint Matthew Passion is Bach's greatest work, one which constitutes an unsurpassable pinnacle not only of Protestant church music, but in the universal history of music.
Forgotten after Bach's death, the work was played in Berlin on 11 March 1829, a century after its original performance, with Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy conducting.
The composer and conductor adapted the work to ...
Arnold Schönberg Gurre - Leider, Erkel Theatre Budapest, 15 February
- 15 Feb 2025 7:00 PM
- classical
Oratorical song cycle with Hungarian and English surtitles
Hungarian musicians have been able to perform the largest-scale work by the leader of the Second Viennese School only on one occasion, in 1998, under the instruction of Zoltán Kocsis.
Alongside Mahler's Symphony No. 8 and Britten's War Requiem, the opus is one of the works that require the largest ensemble in classical music. ...
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 23 January
- 23 Jan 2025 7:30 PM
- classical
While reunions have their own sort of magic, initial meetings are perhaps even more exciting. And for the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, one of Northern Europe’s top ensembles, this will be their first visit to Müpa Budapest.
And they couldn’t pick a better time, either, because they are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year! Since 2017, the orchestra has been led by a conductor ...
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 8, Opera House Budapest, 1 October
- 1 Oct 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Concert performance in Latin and German with Hungarian, English, and original-language subtitles
Thanks to the spectacular development of our Orchestra and Chorus, since 2020 we have been able to perform Mahler’s enormous creation at the beginning of each season as a sort of preparation. Each year, it is directed by a different conductor. The work was last performed in Hungary 13 years before ...
Saint Matthew Passion, Opera Budapest, 24 March
- 24 Jan 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Oratorio in two parts, in German, with Hungarian, English, and German subtitles
The Saint Matthew Passion is Bach's greatest work, one which constitutes an unsurpassable pinnacle not only of Protestant church music, but in the universal history of music.
Forgotten after Bach's death, the work was played in Berlin on 11 March 1829, a century after its original performance, with Felix ...
New Year's Overture, Liszt Academy Budapest, 1 January
- 1 Jan 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
Concert of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra and the Liszt Academy
Dvořák: Carnival Overture, Op. 92
Glière: Harp Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 74 » 3. Allegro giocoso
Featuring: Bianka Szauer (harp)
Kodály: Hungarian Rondo (version for orchestra)
Khachaturian: Masquerade – suite ». Galop
Erkel: Hunyadi László » Palotas
Arban: Fantaisie and Variations on The Carnival of Venice (Sergei ...
'Ligeti 100', Palace of Arts Budapest, 22 June
- 22 Jun 2023 7:00 PM
- contemporary
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of György Ligeti, one of the most exciting composers of the 20th century, a constant seeker of new paths forward.
Originally from Transylvania, he studied at Budapest's Liszt Academy and, after emigrating in 1956, produced his mature work in Western Europe.
Concerto Budapest and the Hungarian Radio Choir are commemorating the artist with ...
Liszt Fest 2021, Spotlight On Georges Aperghis, Budapest Music Center, 14 October
- 14 Oct 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
The Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments, which Richard Strauss wrote at the age of seventeen, is one of the works the Péter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation’s mentoring programme for conductors and composers focuses on this year.
The mentored composers, Balázs Kecskés D. and Francisco Domínguez compose new works for a performing force identical with that of the Serenade.
As in former ...
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 ...
St Matthew Passion, Opera House Budapest, 19 April
- 19 Apr 2025 7:00 PM
- classical
The Saint Matthew Passion is Bach's greatest work, one which constitutes an unsurpassable pinnacle not only of Protestant church music, but in the universal history of music.
Forgotten after Bach's death, the work was played in Berlin on 11 March 1829, a century after its original performance, with Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy conducting.
The composer and conductor adapted the work to ...
Arnold Schönberg Gurre - Leider, Erkel Theatre Budapest, 15 February
- 15 Feb 2025 7:00 PM
- classical
Oratorical song cycle with Hungarian and English surtitles
Hungarian musicians have been able to perform the largest-scale work by the leader of the Second Viennese School only on one occasion, in 1998, under the instruction of Zoltán Kocsis.
Alongside Mahler's Symphony No. 8 and Britten's War Requiem, the opus is one of the works that require the largest ensemble in classical music. ...
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 23 January
- 23 Jan 2025 7:30 PM
- classical
While reunions have their own sort of magic, initial meetings are perhaps even more exciting. And for the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, one of Northern Europe’s top ensembles, this will be their first visit to Müpa Budapest.
And they couldn’t pick a better time, either, because they are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year! Since 2017, the orchestra has been led by a conductor ...
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 8, Opera House Budapest, 1 October
- 1 Oct 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Concert performance in Latin and German with Hungarian, English, and original-language subtitles
Thanks to the spectacular development of our Orchestra and Chorus, since 2020 we have been able to perform Mahler’s enormous creation at the beginning of each season as a sort of preparation. Each year, it is directed by a different conductor. The work was last performed in Hungary 13 years before ...
Saint Matthew Passion, Opera Budapest, 24 March
- 24 Jan 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Oratorio in two parts, in German, with Hungarian, English, and German subtitles
The Saint Matthew Passion is Bach's greatest work, one which constitutes an unsurpassable pinnacle not only of Protestant church music, but in the universal history of music.
Forgotten after Bach's death, the work was played in Berlin on 11 March 1829, a century after its original performance, with Felix ...
New Year's Overture, Liszt Academy Budapest, 1 January
- 1 Jan 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
Concert of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra and the Liszt Academy
Dvořák: Carnival Overture, Op. 92
Glière: Harp Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 74 » 3. Allegro giocoso
Featuring: Bianka Szauer (harp)
Kodály: Hungarian Rondo (version for orchestra)
Khachaturian: Masquerade – suite ». Galop
Erkel: Hunyadi László » Palotas
Arban: Fantaisie and Variations on The Carnival of Venice (Sergei ...
'Ligeti 100', Palace of Arts Budapest, 22 June
- 22 Jun 2023 7:00 PM
- contemporary
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of György Ligeti, one of the most exciting composers of the 20th century, a constant seeker of new paths forward.
Originally from Transylvania, he studied at Budapest's Liszt Academy and, after emigrating in 1956, produced his mature work in Western Europe.
Concerto Budapest and the Hungarian Radio Choir are commemorating the artist with ...
Liszt Fest 2021, Spotlight On Georges Aperghis, Budapest Music Center, 14 October
- 14 Oct 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
The Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments, which Richard Strauss wrote at the age of seventeen, is one of the works the Péter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation’s mentoring programme for conductors and composers focuses on this year.
The mentored composers, Balázs Kecskés D. and Francisco Domínguez compose new works for a performing force identical with that of the Serenade.
As in former ...
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 ...