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...
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"...
Music Academy Great Hall 2019-03-05 kedd 19:30
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 hétfő 19:30
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 szerda 19:30
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 hétfő 19:30
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 kedd 19:30
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 csütörtök 10:00
Is this all music? - What is live electronics like? - What magic can a synthesizer work?
Hungarian Radio Studio 6 2019-04-11 csütörtök 11:30
Is this all music? - What is live electronics like? - What magic can a synthesizer work?
Hungarian Radio Studio 6 2019-04-15 hétfő 19:30
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 szerda 19:30
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 kedd 20:00
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 hétfő 19:30
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 kedd 19:30
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 szombat 16:00
The Lower Junior Choir will entertain the audience with a Whitsun programme, and will give a concert with a light, spring mood.