Those who did not make it to the band’s Christmas concerts can follow it in the form of a free live broadcast.
In view of the huge interest in the Christmas Tchaikovsky evening, András Keller decided at the end of November that Concerto Budapest will give an encore concert and will also perform the program of the evening Christmas concert from 11 am, in which Tchaikovsky’s Meditation from Souvenir d’un lieu cher, D -major violin concerto, the Swan Lake Suite and the Nutcracker Suite. The soloist of the evening is Kristóf Baráti, the concert is conducted by András Keller.
The tickets for the morning concert were also sold out in a few days, so the idea of a live broadcast came up, the implementation of which was resolved, so the stream of the concert will be available for free on the orchestra’s online platforms for everyone who wants to enjoy the joy of waiting for Christmas through Tchaikovsky’s beautiful music.
“The main purpose of musical art is to convey humanity, love and human goodness, to elevate the soul and to complete our emotional world. That is why it is especially important for me to spread the feeling of harmony, peace, community and finding each other to as many people as possible at Christmas,” said András Keller – Kossuth Prize-winning music director of the band, about the concert broadcast, and then quoted the words of Zoltán Kodály: “The music it is a nourishing, comforting elixir, and it empowers the beauty of life and all that is valuable in it.”
Imre Stein Szabó, the creative producer of the recording and the band’s chief international strategy consultant, said the following about the broadcast: “In the past three years, it can be said without exaggeration that Concerto Budapest has been at the forefront of film recordings and live broadcasts not only in Hungary, but also in Europe in terms of quality and viewership. I believe that there are two important directions for streams, one is when, for example, by broadcasting a Mozart day or a Beethoven day, we can create a cinematic presence that actually opens up a new kind of reception dimension. A typical example of the other direction is the current situation, when considering the solemnity of the moment, the day, the event, it would be a mistake to exclude those who cannot enter the concert hall from the musical experience. Although the full house, the packed choir and the stage would all speak against the proper implementation of the recording, this time we will also provide a worthy experience with the broadcast.”
Update by Aggie Reiter
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