10 result(s) for bartók festival in Events
Bartók Feszt' 2023, Szent Gellért tér Budapest, 2 September
- 31 Aug 2024 10:00 AM
- classical
This year, once again, the festival of Újbuda and the Bartók Quarter is coming, our autumnal celebration where there are 'ands' instead of 'ors', and where we locals, city dwellers, civilians, service providers, bands, and music lovers meet and connect.
At the Bartók Fest, Újbuda showcases what the Bartók Quarter means and represents in our daily lives. Connections, culture, flavors. Locals, ...
Tan Dun: Buddha Passion - Hungarian premiere, National Concert Hall Budapest, 14 April
- 14 Apr 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
Commissioned by the Dresden Music Festival, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, this monumental, six-part Buddha Passion was written in 2018.
The piece has a Chinese and Sanskrit libretto, and employs solo singers, a choir and an orchestra. It was first performed in Dresden by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the ...
Budapest Festival Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 25 March
- 25 Mar 2024 7:45 PM
- classical
One of two surviving Bach passions, the Saint Matthew Passion, which can be considered the zenith of Protestant church music, is often performed today as a purely musical piece, even though it really is an example of applied music at its best, or as Iván Fischer describes it, "a ritual with spiritual content.”
When it was first presented on Good Friday 1727, the work was paused between its ...
'The Rhinegold', Palace of Arts Budapest, 15 June
- 15 Jun 2023 6:00 PM
- classical
Das Rheingold is the introduction to the storyline, depicting the central conflict. Starting from a primeval state of peace, the opera shows how the original sin was committed, triggering a chain of events that eventually lead to complete annihilation.
Over and over again, one is haunted by the suspicion that the myth is not about gods, giants and dwarfs, but about ourselves: it is not so ...
Concert of the Marquette High School Orchestra, Nádor Hall Budapest, 20 March
- 20 Mar 2022 5:23 PM
- classical
The Marquette High School Orchestra, of the Rockwood School District, is comprised of musicians 15-18 years of age. Rockwood School District is nationally renown for it’s orchestra program. Every third grader in each of the 23 elementary schools is required to play the violin for one year.
After that, students may choose to continue in orchestra and can stay with the violin, or select one ...
Iván Fischer and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Palace of Arts Budapest, 20 September
- 19 Sep 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Audience will have a special evening to look forward to. There is no need to introduce the 70-year-old Iván Fischer to the Budapest audience.
Nevertheless, this concert will be an introduction in a certain sense, since it has always been at the helm of the Budapest Festival Orchestra that we've seen him perform ever since the ensemble made its debut on Christmas Day in 1983.
At this event ...
Attacca Concert, Fonó Budapest, 8 September
- 8 Sep 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Attacca Ensemble plays world music - their CD “Világom” was released by Hunnia Records in September of 2020.
Their form of expression is classical music and contemporary jazz, but alongside this kind of compositional thought, authentic Hungarian folk music plays an important part in Attacca’s sound.
The 20th century works of Bartók Béla and Kodály Zoltán and their folk music collection ...
Párniczky Quartet, Budapest Music Center, 3 June
- 3 Jun 2021 8:01 PM
- classical
This repertoire was performed with the collaboration of the guitarist Frank Möbus and the tenorsaxophonist Daniel Erdmann at the MÜPA. In 2019 the Quartet has toured along with the bassist Carlos Bica and drummer Dejan Terzic.
Europe based four-piece Parniczky Quartet having forged a very unique signature sound that originates in jazz, contemporary classical and Hungarian folk music.
The ...
Bartók Spring Series: Kelemen Quartett Concert, Budapest Music Center, 20 May
- 20 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
After a break of nearly three years, Kelemen Quartet takes to the stage in a new form, though Barnabás Kelemen and Katalin Kokas did not turn their backs on the genre in recent times.
They formed ad hoc ensembles with such great musicians as Vilde Frang (Norway), Nicolas Altstaedt (Germany), Mon Puo Lee (Taiwan) and Dmitry Smirnov (Russia).
As they now join forces with Greek violinist ...
Bartók Feszt' 2023, Szent Gellért tér Budapest, 2 September
- 31 Aug 2024 10:00 AM
- classical
This year, once again, the festival of Újbuda and the Bartók Quarter is coming, our autumnal celebration where there are 'ands' instead of 'ors', and where we locals, city dwellers, civilians, service providers, bands, and music lovers meet and connect.
At the Bartók Fest, Újbuda showcases what the Bartók Quarter means and represents in our daily lives. Connections, culture, flavors. Locals, ...
Tan Dun: Buddha Passion - Hungarian premiere, National Concert Hall Budapest, 14 April
- 14 Apr 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
Commissioned by the Dresden Music Festival, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, this monumental, six-part Buddha Passion was written in 2018.
The piece has a Chinese and Sanskrit libretto, and employs solo singers, a choir and an orchestra. It was first performed in Dresden by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the ...
Budapest Festival Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 25 March
- 25 Mar 2024 7:45 PM
- classical
One of two surviving Bach passions, the Saint Matthew Passion, which can be considered the zenith of Protestant church music, is often performed today as a purely musical piece, even though it really is an example of applied music at its best, or as Iván Fischer describes it, "a ritual with spiritual content.”
When it was first presented on Good Friday 1727, the work was paused between its ...
'The Rhinegold', Palace of Arts Budapest, 15 June
- 15 Jun 2023 6:00 PM
- classical
Das Rheingold is the introduction to the storyline, depicting the central conflict. Starting from a primeval state of peace, the opera shows how the original sin was committed, triggering a chain of events that eventually lead to complete annihilation.
Over and over again, one is haunted by the suspicion that the myth is not about gods, giants and dwarfs, but about ourselves: it is not so ...
Concert of the Marquette High School Orchestra, Nádor Hall Budapest, 20 March
- 20 Mar 2022 5:23 PM
- classical
The Marquette High School Orchestra, of the Rockwood School District, is comprised of musicians 15-18 years of age. Rockwood School District is nationally renown for it’s orchestra program. Every third grader in each of the 23 elementary schools is required to play the violin for one year.
After that, students may choose to continue in orchestra and can stay with the violin, or select one ...
Iván Fischer and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Palace of Arts Budapest, 20 September
- 19 Sep 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Audience will have a special evening to look forward to. There is no need to introduce the 70-year-old Iván Fischer to the Budapest audience.
Nevertheless, this concert will be an introduction in a certain sense, since it has always been at the helm of the Budapest Festival Orchestra that we've seen him perform ever since the ensemble made its debut on Christmas Day in 1983.
At this event ...
Attacca Concert, Fonó Budapest, 8 September
- 8 Sep 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Attacca Ensemble plays world music - their CD “Világom” was released by Hunnia Records in September of 2020.
Their form of expression is classical music and contemporary jazz, but alongside this kind of compositional thought, authentic Hungarian folk music plays an important part in Attacca’s sound.
The 20th century works of Bartók Béla and Kodály Zoltán and their folk music collection ...
Párniczky Quartet, Budapest Music Center, 3 June
- 3 Jun 2021 8:01 PM
- classical
This repertoire was performed with the collaboration of the guitarist Frank Möbus and the tenorsaxophonist Daniel Erdmann at the MÜPA. In 2019 the Quartet has toured along with the bassist Carlos Bica and drummer Dejan Terzic.
Europe based four-piece Parniczky Quartet having forged a very unique signature sound that originates in jazz, contemporary classical and Hungarian folk music.
The ...
Bartók Spring Series: Kelemen Quartett Concert, Budapest Music Center, 20 May
- 20 May 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
After a break of nearly three years, Kelemen Quartet takes to the stage in a new form, though Barnabás Kelemen and Katalin Kokas did not turn their backs on the genre in recent times.
They formed ad hoc ensembles with such great musicians as Vilde Frang (Norway), Nicolas Altstaedt (Germany), Mon Puo Lee (Taiwan) and Dmitry Smirnov (Russia).
As they now join forces with Greek violinist ...