For many, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the closest the composer comes to a musical portrait: in the first movement's obstinate theme and implacable...
Shakespeare's works always contain the "passion, emotion, pathos and variety, which are the indispensible requirements for a good libretto" said...
A Taiwanese violinist, Yu-Chien Tseng is still only 24 years old, but has performed successfully at renowned competitions such as the Queen Elizabeth...
Matthias Church 2018-10-19 20:00:00
For music-lovers in the late 17th century, the name of Bruhns sounded just as good in the northern reaches of Germany as did that of Bach in Thuringia. Nicolaus Bruhns was perhaps the most outstanding of all of them, a master on the organ and violin alike, while his compositions mark out his place...
Music Academy Great Hall 2018-10-30 19:30:00
Just like Mozart, Beethoven did not write down everything in the pieces he performed himself. In the C minor piano concerto, for instance, a contemporary recalled that he played from a score resembling hieroglyphics. Winner of the 2012 Anda Géza Piano Competition in Zurich, the phenomenal Varvara...
Matthias Church 2018-10-31 20:00:00
The church of Notre-Dame in Paris was one of the most important sites of music history in the 12th century. Eight centuries later, what kind of music did its ancient walls inspire? Many consider Louis Vierne's mass for choir and two organs to be the pinnacle of the genre of the Romantic organ mass....
Müpa Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 2018-11-08 19:30:00
Famous for a few excerpts and the fatal accident that lead to the composer's death, Lully's Te Deum was composed 350 years ago, and its characteristic style is a perfect justification for our considering this composer of Italian origins to be the creator of the French Baroque style. This...
Main Parish Church of the Assumption (1056 Budapest, Március 15. tér 2.) 2018-11-09 19:30:00
The Bulgarian National Radio Children's Choir was founded in 1960. Since then they have earned a name as an ensemble with international reputation, having been guests in nearly thirty countries, and in cities such as New York, Washington, Tokyo, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Vienna, Prague,...
Music Academy Great Hall 2018-11-13 19:30:00
In his popular talks, Tamás Vásáry this time pays his respects to Mozart, and also refers to the works and life of one other composer. In this first concert-talk, the works of Georges Bizet are coupled to those of the great Austrian composer. The programme suggests interesting parallels and...
Matthias Church 2018-11-16 20:00:00
In mid-November, as we draw close to the Advent season, this third concert in the Anno sacri series showcases works whose themes are linked to the liturgy of the first Sunday of Advent. The hymn beginning "Nun komm der heiden Heiland" (Now come, Saviour of the gentiles) was an integral part of the...
Music Academy Great Hall 2018-11-27 19:30:00
It was for Oberon that Carl Maria von Weber travelled to London in 1826, so he could not take on August Schumann's 15-year-old son Robert as a pupil. Creating one of music history's biggest "what if" fantasies, Weber soon died in England, and Robert Schumann gave up his musical aspirations....
Hungarian Radio Studio 6 2018-12-03 19:30:00
At the peak of his career as a composer in 1925 Arnold Schoenberg wrote his choral work Three Satires, in which he made fun of various trends in modern music. Composed to his own poems, he lambasted the middle-of-the-roaders, the folklorists and the Neoclassicists alike; the targets of the ironic...
Budapest Music Center 2018-12-08 16:00:00
The Lower Junior Choir nativity play, and the instrumental soloists of the Hungarian Radio Childrens Choir give an Advent concert.
Müpa Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 2018-12-14 16:00:00
At the customary Christmas concert all four groups of the Hungarian Radio Children's Choir will perform pieces with a Christmas mood.
Matthias Church 2018-12-19 20:00:00
The pieces in this fourth concert in the Anno Sacri concert are closely linked in terms of their original function. Telemann's cantata was written for the second Sunday in Advent, Christen, ätzet diesen Tag for the first day of Christmas (25 December), and Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes for...
Music Academy Great Hall 2019-01-15 19:30:00
Michael Haydn, five years younger than his brother Joseph Haydn, served for more than four decades in Mozart's birthtown of Salzburg. He composed in almost all the genres of the era, and was considered particularly excellent in sacred music: his elder brother bowed before Michael's church music,...
Müpa Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 2019-01-23 19:30:00
In the last concert season Nathan Giem, one of the members of the Radio Symphony Orchestra, was made concertmaster with the "Artist of the Season" award. Born in America with strong links to Hungary, he is active as a conductor too, and has taken the baton before excellent orchestras, such as the...
Music Academy Great Hall 2019-01-29 19:30:00
A Taiwanese violinist, Yu-Chien Tseng is still only 24 years old, but has performed successfully at renowned competitions such as the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition (2012) and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015 where he was "only" second (the first prize was not awarded). That...
Hungarian Radio Studio 6 2019-02-04 19:30:00
French music has for many centuries responded with heightened sensitivity to sensuality, exoticism, and spectacle. Zoltán Kodály wrote that "the Frenchman relates to the world through his eye, it is no surprise that if he hears music, he wants some of it for his eyes". We could list many...
Music Academy Great Hall 2019-02-11 19:30:00
The grand masters, from Bach through Haydn and Mozart to Stravinsky had no qualms about using popular, well-known tunes, motifs which had little artistic value but could be well exploited: for instance, they could be whistled, or prompted folk to dance. Astor Piazzolla found his musical raw...
Hungarian Radio Studio 6 2019-02-13 11:30:00
Studio or Church? - What is acoustics? - The secrets of the organ...
Hungarian Radio Studio 6 2019-02-13 11:30:00
Studio or Church? - What is acoustics? - The secrets of the organ...
Music Academy Great Hall 2019-03-05 19:30:00
Not so long ago, in the finals of the Bartók World Competition Ágnes Langer played with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and with her fine playing of Bartók she secured third place in this high standard competition. As one of her prizes she can now give another concert with the Radio...
Hungarian Radio Studio 6 2019-03-11 19:30:00
Shostakovich and Enescu were both 19 years old when they tested their talent in a genre in which the 16-year-old Mendelssohn had written an outstanding, exemplary piece. His influence is unmistakable, particularly in Enescu's composition. The "youngest" work in the concert, Stravinsky's Octet for...
Müpa Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 2019-03-20 19:30:00
This monumental composition of over one and a half hours is Mahler's longest symphony. Long, but not lengthy. The splendid dimensions of the music are determined by the object to be depicted, which is none other than the universe itself, and the soul of nature. Composer and conductor Pierre Boulez...
Pest Vigadó 2019-03-25 19:30:00
Just like Haydn's oratorio The Creation, Britten's cantata written in 1937 at the age of 24, starts with a depiction of the chaos preceding the creation. However, it goes on to depict not this world, but events in the supernatural wrold, with focus on the archangels, primarily Archangel Michael....
Music Academy Great Hall 2019-04-09 19:30:00
The Roman-born conductor and composer in his mid-thirties, Sesto Quatrini is one of the most impulsive conductors of our time, of whom stars such as Roberto Alagna and Elina Garanča speak with delight. According to the world-famous conductor Fabio Luisi, he has every ability necessary to create a...
Hungarian Radio Studio 6 2019-04-11 10:00:00
Is this all music? - What is live electronics like? - What magic can a synthesizer work?
Hungarian Radio Studio 6 2019-04-11 11:30:00
Is this all music? - What is live electronics like? - What magic can a synthesizer work?
Hungarian Radio Studio 6 2019-04-15 19:30:00
Some doubt that humour can be depicted in music, others believe taht musical humour is the highest form of humour. Perhaps András Schiff was right when he remarked "how much easier it is to bring the audience to tears, than to get them to laugh. Tragedy, sadness, renunciation and grief demand of...
Music Academy Great Hall 2019-04-24 19:30:00
A symphony whose manuscript UNESCO declared part of world heritage (together with James Cook's nautical journal and the 180,000-piece papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library): an opera overture which in the last hundred years has been played in the middle of the second act and,...
Matthias Church 2019-04-30 20:00:00
More than four hundred years separate one of the greatest composers of the English Renaissance and John Tavener, and striking figure in twentieth-century British music. Yet in English choral music there is a certain tone that remains constant through the various eras and styles, that we can hear in...
Music Academy Great Hall 2019-05-06 19:30:00
This time, Tamás Vásáry talks about Mozart and also the tragic German composer Robert Schumann. As well as pointing out the similarities and differences in their lives, he will demonstrate the many beauties of their music in this concert-talk.
Müpa Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 2019-05-14 19:30:00
In the second half of the 18th century concert arias were a natural part of orchestral concerts and "academies". In the 19th century symphonic songs and song cycles fulfilled a similar function. As in the case of many a Romantic genre, Berlioz was in the vanguard, suffice to think of the orchestral...
Budapest Music Center 2019-05-18 16:00:00
The Lower Junior Choir will entertain the audience with a Whitsun programme, and will give a concert with a light, spring mood.