599 result(s) for hungarian orchestra
Budapest Sziget Festival Line-up For World Music Stage Complete
- 2 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
"Easy answer: just make sure everyone spends time at the World Music Party Stage of Sziget Festival, between 6-13 August in Budapest. The program of the stage is complete and means 120% of dance and fun – even the name has changed to indicate this. You can meet the orginal line-up of The Pogues, Goran Bregovic Wedding And Funeral Band, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Shantel & Bucovina ...
Invitation: Final Concert Of The Liszt Year In Hungary, Opera House, 31 March
- 30 Mar 2012 10:01 AM
- community & culture
"In 2011 hundreds of concerts, several exhibitions, publications and commemorating events were dedicated to Ferenc Liszt, born 200 years ago. On 31 March, Kossuth Prize-winner Dezső Ránki pianist and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra close the celebrations at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest, playing Liszt’s emblematic pieces.
Looking Back On The Liszt Year In Hungary - In A Nutshell
- 27 Mar 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"In 2011 hundreds of concerts, sereval exhibitions, publications and commemorating events were dedicated to Ferenc Liszt, born 200 years ago. Although we could not be present everywhere, we have covered most of the events in narrative or in pictures.
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 ...
Dezső Ránki Concert, National Concert Hall Budapest, 17 January
- 16 Jan 2012 8:08 AM
- community & culture
"Dezső Ránki gained his diploma in 1973 at the Liszt Academy of Music as a student of Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Rados. At the age of 18, he won first prize at the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau, and has since performed concerts worldwide. He has played with the Berlin and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the Orchestre National de France in ...
Hungarian National Philharmonic, National Concert Hall Budapest, 12 January
- 10 Jan 2012 8:02 AM
- community & culture
""The guest artist for the evening, Olga Kern, was born into a family of musicians with Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff in its lineage. She has taken part in numerous competitions, finishing winner or receiving a special prize on almost every occasion. After a gap of 32 years, she was the first woman to win a gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Xpat Interview: Theresa Bubbear, Former Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Budapest
- 10 Nov 2011 11:00 AM
Theresa was born in central London, just within the sound of Bow Bells - which makes her a true cockney.
'Music - Wine' Gala Concert Of The 100 Member Gipsy Orchestra, Budapest, 30 December 2010
- 24 Dec 2010 6:30 AM
- entertainment
"It has become a tradition for the “Hundred Member” Gipsy Orchestra to give a gala concert on December the 30th. The audience will get the chance to hear the pieces of Liszt, Brahms, Strauss and Khachaturian in the interpretation of outstanding musicians.
New Year's Concert At National Concert Hall In Budapest, 1 January
- 21 Dec 2010 7:54 AM
- community & culture
"The Palace of Arts has been staging a New Year's concert since 2008. Each year, Haydn's wonderful oratorio, first performed in 1798, is played to mark the occasion. "The Creation is something we need," writes András Batta of the piece, "we desire that someone shows us the beauty of the world once again, and imbues in us the feeling that it is good to live on this earth."
Budapest Sziget Festival Line-up For World Music Stage Complete
- 2 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
"Easy answer: just make sure everyone spends time at the World Music Party Stage of Sziget Festival, between 6-13 August in Budapest. The program of the stage is complete and means 120% of dance and fun – even the name has changed to indicate this. You can meet the orginal line-up of The Pogues, Goran Bregovic Wedding And Funeral Band, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Shantel & Bucovina ...
Invitation: Final Concert Of The Liszt Year In Hungary, Opera House, 31 March
- 30 Mar 2012 10:01 AM
- community & culture
"In 2011 hundreds of concerts, several exhibitions, publications and commemorating events were dedicated to Ferenc Liszt, born 200 years ago. On 31 March, Kossuth Prize-winner Dezső Ránki pianist and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra close the celebrations at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest, playing Liszt’s emblematic pieces.
Looking Back On The Liszt Year In Hungary - In A Nutshell
- 27 Mar 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"In 2011 hundreds of concerts, sereval exhibitions, publications and commemorating events were dedicated to Ferenc Liszt, born 200 years ago. Although we could not be present everywhere, we have covered most of the events in narrative or in pictures.
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 ...
Dezső Ránki Concert, National Concert Hall Budapest, 17 January
- 16 Jan 2012 8:08 AM
- community & culture
"Dezső Ránki gained his diploma in 1973 at the Liszt Academy of Music as a student of Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Rados. At the age of 18, he won first prize at the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau, and has since performed concerts worldwide. He has played with the Berlin and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the Orchestre National de France in ...
Hungarian National Philharmonic, National Concert Hall Budapest, 12 January
- 10 Jan 2012 8:02 AM
- community & culture
""The guest artist for the evening, Olga Kern, was born into a family of musicians with Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff in its lineage. She has taken part in numerous competitions, finishing winner or receiving a special prize on almost every occasion. After a gap of 32 years, she was the first woman to win a gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Xpat Interview: Theresa Bubbear, Former Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Budapest
- 10 Nov 2011 11:00 AM
Theresa was born in central London, just within the sound of Bow Bells - which makes her a true cockney.
'Music - Wine' Gala Concert Of The 100 Member Gipsy Orchestra, Budapest, 30 December 2010
- 24 Dec 2010 6:30 AM
- entertainment
"It has become a tradition for the “Hundred Member” Gipsy Orchestra to give a gala concert on December the 30th. The audience will get the chance to hear the pieces of Liszt, Brahms, Strauss and Khachaturian in the interpretation of outstanding musicians.
New Year's Concert At National Concert Hall In Budapest, 1 January
- 21 Dec 2010 7:54 AM
- community & culture
"The Palace of Arts has been staging a New Year's concert since 2008. Each year, Haydn's wonderful oratorio, first performed in 1798, is played to mark the occasion. "The Creation is something we need," writes András Batta of the piece, "we desire that someone shows us the beauty of the world once again, and imbues in us the feeling that it is good to live on this earth."