293 result(s) for the festival orchestra
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 ...
Budapest Music Weeks Until 30 November
- 12 Nov 2010 12:00 AM
- entertainment
"The story of the first festival of the Hungarian capital dates back to 1958 when Philharmonia organised a ”Bartók Festival” at the beginning of the autumn concert season. The list of participants was quite fascinating: Yehudi Menuhin, Svyatoslav Richter, the Juilliard String Quartet, János Ferencsik, Annie Fischer…
Liszt Year In Hungary In 2011
- 28 Oct 2010 3:00 AM
- community & culture
"Next year we are celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Franz Liszt, a major event for classical music throughout the world. It is a fortunate coincidence that in the same year, in the first half of 2011 Hungary is assuming the Presidency of the European Union, which will provide an opportunity to present the work of Franz Liszt and the Hungarian identity he embraced, in events throughout ...
Xpat Interview: Berne Weiss
- 11 Oct 2010 12:00 PM
I grew up in New York. Lived in San Francisco for 25 years before I moved to Budapest. I've been a social activist since I was involved in the anti-war movement in the 1960's. I have a son and a daughter and three grandchildren.
'Budapest Mahler Festival 2010', Palace Of Arts Budapest, Until 27 September
- 24 Sep 2010 2:00 AM
- community & culture
"We welcome once again to Budapest the grandson of Ernő Dohnányi who unlike his genius relative, is also at home in contemporary music. Celebrating his eighty-first birthday the day before the concert, he still exhibits an open mindedness that would shame many a youngster and remains full of plans.
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 ...
Budapest Music Weeks Until 30 November
- 12 Nov 2010 12:00 AM
- entertainment
"The story of the first festival of the Hungarian capital dates back to 1958 when Philharmonia organised a ”Bartók Festival” at the beginning of the autumn concert season. The list of participants was quite fascinating: Yehudi Menuhin, Svyatoslav Richter, the Juilliard String Quartet, János Ferencsik, Annie Fischer…
Liszt Year In Hungary In 2011
- 28 Oct 2010 3:00 AM
- community & culture
"Next year we are celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Franz Liszt, a major event for classical music throughout the world. It is a fortunate coincidence that in the same year, in the first half of 2011 Hungary is assuming the Presidency of the European Union, which will provide an opportunity to present the work of Franz Liszt and the Hungarian identity he embraced, in events throughout ...
Xpat Interview: Berne Weiss
- 11 Oct 2010 12:00 PM
I grew up in New York. Lived in San Francisco for 25 years before I moved to Budapest. I've been a social activist since I was involved in the anti-war movement in the 1960's. I have a son and a daughter and three grandchildren.
'Budapest Mahler Festival 2010', Palace Of Arts Budapest, Until 27 September
- 24 Sep 2010 2:00 AM
- community & culture
"We welcome once again to Budapest the grandson of Ernő Dohnányi who unlike his genius relative, is also at home in contemporary music. Celebrating his eighty-first birthday the day before the concert, he still exhibits an open mindedness that would shame many a youngster and remains full of plans.