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The Budapest Festival Orchestra and the star pianist offered two contrasting performances at London’s Royal Albert Hall
2023-08-14 12:24:03
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe first two Proms of the Hungarians’ mini residency found orchestra, conductor and soloist Andras Schiff moving and thinking as one. The Audience Choice programme might have been eccentric but it was hugely entertainingWhen Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra come to town, expect the unexpected. It’s not just that they eschew auditions, preferring to recruit like-minded musicians with shared views on how classical music must change if it is going to have a future. There is something about how they play, the visceral, physically dynamic way they move as one, that turns a concert into a communal act for orchestra and audience. Clearly word has got around. For the first of three Proms appearances in the orchestra’s 40th year, the Royal Albert Hall was packed to the rafters.Given their radical credentials, Saturday evening’s prom was a pretty conservative programme, but there was nothing ordinary about […]
2022-05-30 14:28:18
Two pianists (Zoltán Kocsis), 2022
This Week in Classical Music: May 30, 2022. Two Pianists. Zoltán Kocsis and Marth Argerich were born this week: Kocsis in Budapest, Hungary, on May 30th of 1952, Argerich in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 5th of 1941. Argerich is famous and widely considered one of the greatest pianists of her generation. She doesn’t need any introductions, especially considering that we’ve written about her on many occasions (for example, here). And, at the age of 81, she actively performs, often introducing new repertoire. Kocsis, on the other hand, as talented as he was, isn’t that well known, which is a pity. Kocsis studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest (György Kurtág was one of his teachers). At the age of 18 he caused a sensation, winning the Hungarian Radio Beethoven Competition. He was recognized as one of the outstanding musicians and at the age of 21 was awarded […]
2022-03-21 13:48:02
Jan Vogler (Photo Stephan Floss) After two years when the festival operated either online or in mixed mode with smaller-scale live concerts, the Dresden Music Festival is back this year with a large-scale event including several visiting orchestras. From 11 May to 10 June 2022, the festival will be presenting over 60 concerts in and around Dresden celebrating the 45th Dresden Music Festival. The festival's opening concert is the period instrument Dresden Festival Orchestra, conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Mozart's overture to Die Zauberflöte and Symphony No. 40, plus Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor' with soloist Jan Liesecki on forte-piano. And the festival orchestra will be closing the festival as well when David Robertson conducts more Beethoven, the Choral Fantasy and Symphony No. 9 with soloists Martin Helmchen (piano), Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (mezzo-soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), and René Pape (bass). Two concerts celebrate historical Dresden connections. The Dresden Baroque Orchestra will […]
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