God’s wrath, in the form of the medieval plainchant Dies Irae, occupied Müpa Budapest’s Béla Bartók Hall on Sunday, 6 November.
Szerző: Alexandra Ivanoff
Despite the implied egalitarian billing of the ensemble’s international members, their touring program is clearly a vehicle for Barenboim.
In the music world, war has a hard time existing. In the last week, four concerts, three at Müpa Budapest and another at the Liszt Academy, were all-Russian music programs.
For the birthday celebrations of both Kálmán Imre and his daughter, Yvonne Kálmán, a gala was staged at the Budapest Operetta Theatre.
The Iván Fischer Opera Company – presented the 1954 Britten chamber opera “Turn of the Screw” on September 9 and 10 at Müpa Budapest.
To sold-out houses, the Festival Academy Budapest (FAB) again brought their unique brand of musical merry-making: a family affair that operates in fast-forward mode.
Not long ago, I found a little pink rosebud sitting in a small sealed glass container in a Budapest antique store. I presumed it was designed to be hanging on a necklace. I thought, why should I wear something that was crudely extracted from its natural habitat, put into an airless prison, and probably decaying?
Ah, the Budapest Music Center! For composers, conductors, musicians, and listeners who love hearing the latest new scores, it’s Valhalla.
“G for Gustav, F for Frankreich, and K for Karajan!” instructed maestro Alain Altinoglu as he conducted a ‘symphonic mob’ rehearsal in the middle of a lovely park in Bad Kissingen, a spa town in Bavaria.
During the mid-June “Ring of the Nibelungen” produced in Müpa Budapest’s Wagner Days Festival, this visceral reaction phenomenon happened to me repeatedly throughout my four nights of attending this masterpiece of musical mythology.
