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Award-Winning Hungarian Violinist Plans Musical Salon In Budapest – An Interview
- 19 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Bela Bartok’s Sonatas for Violin and Sonata for Violin on audio CD has won the prestigious international Gramophone Award. Zoltan Kocsis (laureate of the Hungarian Kossuth Prize twice) plays the piano and Barnabas Kelemen (Kossuth Prize laureate) plays the piano. Kelemen received the Gramophone Award in London in September.
Gault&Millau Hungary 2014 – Presentation Of The New Guide
- 11 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- food & drink
”Hungarian gastronomic culture has reached its final stages, if it is not past all chances of improvement.” This statement was issued in the 2007 Culinary Charta, signed by over a hundred public figures of all sorts of ideological beliefs within a week. The statement also declared that: ”if any negative trend can be reversed, it must be reversed”. And that „the signatories will lobby for quality”.
Invitation: Bridging Europe, Iva Bittová, Festival Theatre Budapest, 12 September
- 11 Sep 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The career of Iva Bittová can be approached within the context of many different musical genres. She is equally at home in classical and contemporary music, jazz and the avant-garde, rock and folk music. We could make a long list of those with whom she has worked, but then we might easily lose sight of the most important thing, which is that in reality she cannot be pigeon-holed in any genre and ...
A New Hungarian Badacsony-Style Dish Is Born
- 5 Jul 2013 9:00 AM
- food & drink
The “fish-filled pasta Badacsony style” has been selected to represent the gastronomy of the Badacsony region, so the fine wines of Badacsony may finally be served with a genuine Badacsony-style dish.
National Philharmonic Orchestra Concert, Budapest, 28 February
- 27 Feb 2013 8:00 AM
- community & culture
A selection of works with a connection to Vienna feature at this special concert. Born 115 years ago, Erich Wolfgang Korngold caused a sensation as a composer while still a child – perhaps predestined to do so by his given middle name of Wolfgang. Among the greats of the time, he captured the attention of Mahler, Puccini, Richard Strauss, Sibelius, Arthur Nikisch and Károly Goldmark. He was aged ...
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 ...
Invitation: Charles Lloyd Sky Trio, National Concert Hall Budapest, 25 February
- 22 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"Charles Lloyd is an international treasure,” said Carlos Santana of the 74-year old saxophone player. According to Ben Ratliff, jazz writer at The New York Times, “follow the career of Charles Lloyd, ... and you’ll see a grand history of jazz spanning half a century”.
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 ...
'The Met: Live' In HD, Palace of Arts Budapest, Until 12 December
- 3 Dec 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"Although everyone refers to it by its nickname – “The Met” –, very few music lovers are regular visitors. However, for the past few years, the New York Metropolitan Opera has expanded its auditorium into the virtual sphere, and created the possibility for hundreds of thousands to attend its performances: thanks to high definition satellite broadcasts, music lovers can now enjoy performances at ...
Award-Winning Hungarian Violinist Plans Musical Salon In Budapest – An Interview
- 19 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Bela Bartok’s Sonatas for Violin and Sonata for Violin on audio CD has won the prestigious international Gramophone Award. Zoltan Kocsis (laureate of the Hungarian Kossuth Prize twice) plays the piano and Barnabas Kelemen (Kossuth Prize laureate) plays the piano. Kelemen received the Gramophone Award in London in September.
Gault&Millau Hungary 2014 – Presentation Of The New Guide
- 11 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- food & drink
”Hungarian gastronomic culture has reached its final stages, if it is not past all chances of improvement.” This statement was issued in the 2007 Culinary Charta, signed by over a hundred public figures of all sorts of ideological beliefs within a week. The statement also declared that: ”if any negative trend can be reversed, it must be reversed”. And that „the signatories will lobby for quality”.
Invitation: Bridging Europe, Iva Bittová, Festival Theatre Budapest, 12 September
- 11 Sep 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The career of Iva Bittová can be approached within the context of many different musical genres. She is equally at home in classical and contemporary music, jazz and the avant-garde, rock and folk music. We could make a long list of those with whom she has worked, but then we might easily lose sight of the most important thing, which is that in reality she cannot be pigeon-holed in any genre and ...
A New Hungarian Badacsony-Style Dish Is Born
- 5 Jul 2013 9:00 AM
- food & drink
The “fish-filled pasta Badacsony style” has been selected to represent the gastronomy of the Badacsony region, so the fine wines of Badacsony may finally be served with a genuine Badacsony-style dish.
National Philharmonic Orchestra Concert, Budapest, 28 February
- 27 Feb 2013 8:00 AM
- community & culture
A selection of works with a connection to Vienna feature at this special concert. Born 115 years ago, Erich Wolfgang Korngold caused a sensation as a composer while still a child – perhaps predestined to do so by his given middle name of Wolfgang. Among the greats of the time, he captured the attention of Mahler, Puccini, Richard Strauss, Sibelius, Arthur Nikisch and Károly Goldmark. He was aged ...
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 ...
Invitation: Charles Lloyd Sky Trio, National Concert Hall Budapest, 25 February
- 22 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"Charles Lloyd is an international treasure,” said Carlos Santana of the 74-year old saxophone player. According to Ben Ratliff, jazz writer at The New York Times, “follow the career of Charles Lloyd, ... and you’ll see a grand history of jazz spanning half a century”.
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 ...
'The Met: Live' In HD, Palace of Arts Budapest, Until 12 December
- 3 Dec 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"Although everyone refers to it by its nickname – “The Met” –, very few music lovers are regular visitors. However, for the past few years, the New York Metropolitan Opera has expanded its auditorium into the virtual sphere, and created the possibility for hundreds of thousands to attend its performances: thanks to high definition satellite broadcasts, music lovers can now enjoy performances at ...