Season Ticket ’Jublilee Oratorio’ SUN. MOON. FOLK SONGS. “A continuation of ‘Cantata profana,’ ” said Romanian-Hungarian music historian Ferenc László about György Kurtág’s Colindă-Baladă. In his cantata, Kurtág used the text and melody of a traditional Romanian-language Christmas carol collected by Hungarian composer Bartók: the song tells the story of love between the Sun and the Moon, brother and sister. Written for tenor solo, choir and chamber ensemble, the composition evokes the spirit of Bartók and recalls Kurtág’s youth in Romania while also connecting the musical piece to both the pagan and the Christian past through the archaic text of the
Jubileumi oratóriumbérlet NAP. HOLD. NÉPDALOK. „A Cantata profana folytatása.” – mondta Kurtág György Colindă-Baladă című darabjáról László Ferenc, romániai magyar zenetörténész. Kurtág egy olyan Bartók által gyűjtött román nyelvű kolinda-szöveget és dallamot dolgozott fel kantátájában, mely a Nap és a Hold, fivér és nővér szerelmét beszéli el. A tenorszólóra, kórusra és kamaraegyüttesre írt kompozíció egyszerre idézi meg Bartók szellemét, és emlékezik vissza Kurtág Romániában töltött ifjúkorára, miközben az archaikus szövegen keresztül kapcsolatot tart mind a pogány, mind a keresztény régmúlttal. A Falun népdalfeldolgozás-sorozat több szempontból is fontos darabja Bartók életművének. Dedikációja Bartók második feleségének, Pásztory Dittának szól, és egy olyan
Langer Ágnes a Dohnányi-bérlet 6. előadásán szólistaként lép a Zeneakadémia színpadára.
Anno Sacri – Baroque Evenings HERITAGE. BEAUTY. COMPOSITION. With the help of a series of beautiful compositions, this concert – composed and conducted by Soma Dinyés – will showcase the contribution of the unique musical dynasty of the Bach family to the universal history of music. Program Johann Sebastian Bach: Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft, BWV 50. Johann Christoph Bach: Merk auf, mein Herz, und sieh dorthin Johann Ludwig Bach: Ja, mir hast du Arbeit gemacht Johann Bach: Sei nun wieder zufrieden meine Seele Johann Christoph Bach: Fürchte dich nicht Johann Christoph Bach: Es erhub sich ein Streit
Season Ticket ‘Youth’ SPORT. COMPETITION. MUSICAL PIECES. If there were an Olympics for instruments or instrumentalists, participants would surely have to compete at this event in playing various musical pieces and staging performances to test their skills, strength, explosiveness and speed. And all this would certainly happen to the greatest delight of spectators and fans. Concerning a Vivaldi concerto, for example, one might be thrilled by the dizzying speed of the piccolo effortlessly conquering heights; and the acrobatic acts of the movement ‘La campanella’ of Paganini’s famous Violin Concerto would certainly take one’s breath away. For this Olympics, Mozart could
Season Ticket ‘Youth’ SPORT. COMPETITION. MUSICAL PIECES. If there were an Olympics for instruments or instrumentalists, participants would surely have to compete at this event in playing various musical pieces and staging performances to test their skills, strength, explosiveness and speed. And all this would certainly happen to the greatest delight of spectators and fans. Concerning a Vivaldi concerto, for example, one might be thrilled by the dizzying speed of the piccolo effortlessly conquering heights; and the acrobatic acts of the movement ‘La campanella’ of Paganini’s famous Violin Concerto would certainly take one’s breath away. For this Olympics, Mozart could
Season Ticket ‘Youth’ SPORT. COMPETITION. MUSICAL PIECES. If there were an Olympics for instruments or instrumentalists, participants would surely have to compete at this event in playing various musical pieces and staging performances to test their skills, strength, explosiveness and speed. And all this would certainly happen to the greatest delight of spectators and fans. Concerning a Vivaldi concerto, for example, one might be thrilled by the dizzying speed of the piccolo effortlessly conquering heights; and the acrobatic acts of the movement ‘La campanella’ of Paganini’s famous Violin Concerto would certainly take one’s breath away. For this Olympics, Mozart could
TALENT. COMPETITION. DISCOVERY. Over the past ten years, Virtuózok Talent Show has revolutionised the Hungarian television market, and has quickly become one of the most-watched TV shows. The format of Virtuózok Talent Show is unique: it focuses on discovering young talents of classical music, and then offers them such opportunities for development and advancement that few others can claim to possess. On the stage of Liszt Academy, these young talents are accompanied by some of Hungary’s greatest musicians: the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Domonkos Héja Artists Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Finalists of Virtuózok Talent Show 2026 Ticket price: 3,900
Season Ticket ‘Lehel’ ENGLISH. MUSIC. CORONATION. British conductor Howard Williams has selected the programme for this concert from that period of English music history which stretches over the last three hundred years. The Baroque period is represented by Purcell and Händel, while the 19th and 20th centuries are embodied by compositions by Hubert Parry, William Walton and Benjamin Britten. One of the unique works staged at this concert is a piece by Scottish composer James MacMillan: this composition was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II herself for her own funeral service. When the work was performed in Westminster Abbey on 19th
TWO HUNDRED ACTORS. THE STORY OF BETHLEHEM. In this edited stage performance, the story of Bethlehem is brought to life through featuring the characters of Mary, Joseph, the Three Wise Men, the Evangelist and the angels. Johann Sebastian Bach composed a cantata for each of the major festive days of the Christmas period: in many cases he used excerpts from his previously composed music. Bach himself regarded the cantata cycle, composed in 1734, as an oratorio, and posterity has since been cherishing this work as the most captivating and monumental composition of Bach’s lifework, along with the two musical pieces
