288 result(s) for the festival orchestra
Sziget Festival Budapest 20 – A Comprehensive Intro
- 8 May 2012 9:02 AM
- entertainment
Sziget is the place to be in the middle of August. Europe’s Best Major Festival is celebrating its 20th edition, promising not just great programs, but also a new visual concept. The renewed festival is happy to welcome all the fans who enjoyed it in the past, but also tries to set the targets for the next decades. And now it’s official: the 2012 edition of the Budapest-based event will be a day ...
Invitation: Beethoven Returns To Buda, Concert Series: 4 - 8 May
- 26 Apr 2012 10:45 AM
- community & culture
Memorial concerts and chamber programs to mark the occasion of the concert given by Ludwig van Beethoven on 7th May 1800 at the Buda Castle Theater. The kick-off concert features prize winning pianist, György Vukán, who opens the celebration with a jazz improvisation session at the Buda City Hall.
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 ...
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 ...
Invitation: Midnight Concert, Millenáris Budapest, 21 January
- 19 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Before the midnight concert performed by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Momentán company improvises on the theme of "serious music". Who said classical music can’t be entertaining? This concert starts at 20.30 pm and is free with a ticket to the midnight concert.
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.
Piano Recital By Zoltán Kocsis, National Concert Hall Budapest, 8 December
- 7 Dec 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"Zoltán Kocsis launched his career at the age of 18 by winning Hungarian Radio’s Beethoven competition. Within a few years, he had exploded onto the international stage with invitations to perform in the great musical centres. He was invited by Richter to his festival in France and they gave a concert of duets. He played with the world’s great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic ...
Arto Lindsay, Trafó Budapest, 20 November
- 18 Nov 2010 1:00 AM
- entertainment
"Arto Lindsay has made a lifelong habit of crossing both geographical and musical borders. Born in the United States and raised in Brazil during the heyday of that country's pointedly eclectic Tropicália movement of the 1960s, the multi-faceted songwriter/producer/vocalist/guitarist has forged an international reputation as an artist whose work is as seductive as it is challenging. From his late ...
Sziget Festival Budapest 20 – A Comprehensive Intro
- 8 May 2012 9:02 AM
- entertainment
Sziget is the place to be in the middle of August. Europe’s Best Major Festival is celebrating its 20th edition, promising not just great programs, but also a new visual concept. The renewed festival is happy to welcome all the fans who enjoyed it in the past, but also tries to set the targets for the next decades. And now it’s official: the 2012 edition of the Budapest-based event will be a day ...
Invitation: Beethoven Returns To Buda, Concert Series: 4 - 8 May
- 26 Apr 2012 10:45 AM
- community & culture
Memorial concerts and chamber programs to mark the occasion of the concert given by Ludwig van Beethoven on 7th May 1800 at the Buda Castle Theater. The kick-off concert features prize winning pianist, György Vukán, who opens the celebration with a jazz improvisation session at the Buda City Hall.
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 ...
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 ...
Invitation: Midnight Concert, Millenáris Budapest, 21 January
- 19 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Before the midnight concert performed by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Momentán company improvises on the theme of "serious music". Who said classical music can’t be entertaining? This concert starts at 20.30 pm and is free with a ticket to the midnight concert.
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.
Piano Recital By Zoltán Kocsis, National Concert Hall Budapest, 8 December
- 7 Dec 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"Zoltán Kocsis launched his career at the age of 18 by winning Hungarian Radio’s Beethoven competition. Within a few years, he had exploded onto the international stage with invitations to perform in the great musical centres. He was invited by Richter to his festival in France and they gave a concert of duets. He played with the world’s great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic ...
Arto Lindsay, Trafó Budapest, 20 November
- 18 Nov 2010 1:00 AM
- entertainment
"Arto Lindsay has made a lifelong habit of crossing both geographical and musical borders. Born in the United States and raised in Brazil during the heyday of that country's pointedly eclectic Tropicália movement of the 1960s, the multi-faceted songwriter/producer/vocalist/guitarist has forged an international reputation as an artist whose work is as seductive as it is challenging. From his late ...