24 Jan

Third Year’s Fish Festival – Budapest

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 Between February 19. – 22. 2015., the domestic and  fish brought from over the Sea will be cooked and  served at the 3rd. Budapest Fish Festival.

Even though this will be the third occasion of having the Fish Festival, the number of visitors have increased year-by-year, therefore the venue had to be moved to a larger scene to take place. So in the 2015 it will be arranged at the Vajdahunyadvár  – City Park – in Budapest. … No surprise for the Hungarians to hear, but for the foreigners it is most probably three names to keep in mind  from the three in rich of rivers and pond … the fish  from the capital of Baja and Szeged  and  the Hortobágyi  Fishfarm  will be represented at the festival. Baja, beside other well-known  dedicates, is famous of the Fish Soup A’la Baja and also Fish Soup A’la Szeged. Both difference in flavorings and. The Baja fish soup has  typical soup garnishes, with match formation pasta and Szeged with its flavor. Both really mouth-watering served as not sturdy soup, but if someone likes it hot spicy yummy taste fish soup, that is the place to be. Most sure once the foreigners taste these soup will remember it for a lifetime.

At the festival beside the traditional Hungarian cuisine there wi ll be chance to meet and taste again  the international fish dishes, such as the subtleties of Asian recipes, French fish soup, special Bulgarian and Portuguese fish preparations. For caviar lovers the famous Russian caviar will not be missing. An exciting and unique culinary experience, awaits for those who visit the venue. Will be present the „Tiszalők fishermen”…  last year’s audience awarded cooking a giant catfish in a 5000 liters pot  offering to get a taste of it.

Three years ago István Necz, the organiser dreamt of the event,  and kept  no secret that their goal was to encourage people to have more often fish food  in their daily menu and to have its beneficial effects enjoying the fish culture in the Hungarian gastronomy.

Following the tradition, this year on “Gluttonous Thursday”, will offer the fish delights 50% off.

On Saturday, the organizers invite cooking lovers to participate in a contest. This year for the first time cooking invitation was announced   also to the primary and secondary schools pupils in joining the competition. The winner class will  as a top prize will  receive a trip tour to the Lake Balaton.

The festival is open for all to visit free of charge.

Update by Aggie Reiter

23 Jan

Culture Day at the Vigadó – Hungarian Academy of Arts – Budapest

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An open house day at the  Vigadó – Hungarian Academy of Arts in Budapest.  On  Thursday, January, 22. the sophisticated building’s doors were wide open to the public. The pre-registered visitors of the day could the enter all the rooms and halls free of charge. Exhibitions and other colorful programs, surprises awaited and also to join tour guided tour organized by the Vigadó four times that day. The students of the Academy of Music gave a so-called surprise concert. Visitors could get acquainted with the Hungarian Wine Academy professionals, organized by the Hungarian wine culture. The children could participate in the Chamber Hall viewing an interactive Puppet performance during the afternoon. Late in the afternoon, outside the Vigadó building across the square live music highlighted  and ended the day. Thus brought the attention by many locals and foreigners passing by to the fact that the Hungarian culture is at home everywhere! Closing day the Virtuosi talent show young competitors gave a very successful concert in the main hall. With the series of the  full-day event nearly two thousand people attended the programs. The organisers said, it was great success for the Vigadó and will repeat the “Open House” program sometime during this year.

Update by Aggie Reiter

22 Jan

José Cura … Andrea Mahó … Hungarian Studio Orchestra … Unique Concert … Budapest

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José Cura … Andrea Mahó … Hungarian Studio Orchestra … Unique Concert … Budapest

Just in brief for those to refresh the background of José Cura … he is not your average opera singer. He has a black belt in Kung-fu and is a body builder. Cura is an actor who sings, and not a singer who pretends to act that’s for sure. Born into a music-friendly family, José Cura plays six different instruments. Cura first studied guitar with Juan di Lorenzo. At the age of 15, Cura made his debut as a choral conductor. A year later he began studying composition with Carlos Castro and piano with Zulma Cabrera. In 1982, Cura began studies at the School of Arts of the National University of Rosario to develop his conducting and composition. In 1983 he became assistant conductor for the University choir.  The choirmaster … also head of the conservatory … heard Mr. Cura vocalizing jazz improvised during a rehearsal and convinced him to begin studying voice.

Cura’s first public operatic performance was singing ‘E lucevan le stelle’ … after five voice lessons! … and from there the door was open for him into the world of opera.

Cura the world-famous Argentine opera singer has charmed the audience several times given in the previous years concerts in Budapest and now he will make it happen again to bring new and previously participated audience to the forthcoming concert  on Saturday, February, 21.2015. 7.30 p.m. at the Papp László Budapest Sports Arena with the non less famous female vocalist, the Hungarian Andrea Mahó performing on stage together with the fantastic music provided by Hungarian Studio Orchestra. 

Mahó Andrea, since the beginning of her career, steady success has increased, became well-known, respected singer in Hungary. Her voice, personality, sophisticated style and stage presence dominant experience to her fans.

More update coming soon …

Update by Aggie Reiter

17 Jan

Balaton summer locked into the bottle of Bujdosó wines!

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Recent update from the Bujdosó Vineyards and Winery.

The four seasons always hold a lot of hard work to be busy at the Vineyards! Naturally, also at all the regions of Hungary the Wineries in the month of January are not getting loose and not having too much time to rest. Same goes at the Bujdosó Vineyard, where the vines began intersection of environmental development and construction of the new wines at Balatonlelle – Southern Lake Balaton.

The Bujdosó Winery had lately become more popular. At the beginning of January, the year’s grape work started to have this year’s harvest to be effective. Started pruning the vines during the work, which was gain by the support in trimming machine which is faster than expected in progress.

Besides Balatonlelle Bujdosó plant, opened in early December, the new wine shop fitting also cordoned line, where they have placed a new central heating system which is based on a solid-fuel, automatic wood chip boiler Fed operations.This investment is the branch, where the cut vine, roots or fruit trees can be recycled well. By the end of January a ready-made insulated warehouse expand their premises. During springtime the project as planned will continue, with the bound to the production of hot water solar system together, in order to provide a more environmentally conscious operating conditions.

Keeping up with the tradition, earlier this year was born as Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot wines and the latest Bujdosó Buoy rose.

The second part of January the works will be starting of with bottling the 2014 white wines … the Knot – Sauvignon Blanc, the Captain – Irsai Oliver-  and Tower – Riesling.

Update by Aggie Reiter

16 Jan

Matt Bianco’s excellent tunes for curing the Winter Blues in Budapest!

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 Calling out for a night to remember …  Reloading is coming up …

Mate Bianco concert!

MOM Sports Swimming Pool and Sports Center’s – Great Hall – Budapest.

District, XII., 14-16 Csörsz Street – Budapest

Ticket price – 9900HUF

February, 7. 2015. –  8.20 p.m. – Budapest.

Time goes by … but Matt Bianco’s song lovers the time is here again because he conquers Budapest!

Way back in the early eighties, one of the popular British group by the name of Matt Bianco spinned with their hits into the leading pops-of-the-pops.

Most probably many in the early days thought the lead singer of the group name as Matt Bianco, but was the helm of the group. Funny or not, both being most fond of spy stories, the name came from a fictitious, assumed name from a certain a spy story.

The real name of singer is Mark Reilly and on keyboard players Mark Fisher. Many local and international music broadcast stations and music TV,  day-by-day shooting their bakelite that hit pretty soon the charts.

Matt Bianco unique style was new in the musicland … Jazz – Pop – Latin rhythms. In the ’80s the band was founded by bass player Kito Poncioni, Mark Reilly and Danny White on keyboards. They banged into the pops with their first hit in ’84 – „Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed”. Their music got even more exciting when Basia, with the temperamental Brazilian toned female voice joined the group.The huge success was cut when Basia and Danny White went onto their separate ways.  Afterwards, Mark Reilly had ups-and-downs on their way. Shortly after that the session musician Mark Fisher joined the group things sorted out. Emilio Estefan, Gloria Estefan’s husband – music producer lend a hand in helping to burst out a new hit, the so-called lost in space group could make a hit song that brought them alive again „Do not Blame It On That Girl”.

In the mid 2005, Danny White and Mark Reilly met again and the reunion brought really successful rendezvous and also Basia again joined the legendary team.

The year 2009 brought higher success when Mark Reilly and Mark Fisher came together again and released one album the Bossanova HiFi, then after following by the Hideaway album.

All time favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1RK25XleEE … For me can’t beat it.

 

Upate by Aggie Reiter

15 Jan

The Shanghai Chinese Orchestra at the Palace of Arts – Budapest

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The most important Chinese holiday, the Lunar New Year is shortly on its way…

The Year 2015 is the 4712th Chinese Year and Year of the Wood Sheep!

In the frame of the Lunar New Year an  opening a concert will be held with the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra at the Palace of Arts.  

District, IX., 1. District IX.,  l. Komor Marcell Street – Budapest

Monday, January, 26. 2015.

 Previously, having concerts at Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin and Beijing the orchestra arrives to the Palace of Arts – Budapest.

The orchestra was founded in 1952. Knowing that for the western ear it is often difficult to interpret Chinese melodies, even though the Chinese style elements are combined with western sound also. The majority of the orchestra leaders and members developed also Europe and America skills.

The performance will be held by Wang Fu-Tsien, conductor of the Shanghai Opera artistic director and former alma mater, a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory.

During the evening, Su Chang plays on the special wooden instrument called Ku-ring, which is one of the oldest instrument aka Chinese zither. Other traditional Chinese musical instruments for the European ears with the unusual-sounding the Chinese bamboo flute, zither Chinese and Chinese four-stringed mandolin will be introduced. The concert will be having Chinese folk song as well.

Update by Aggie Reiter

14 Jan

One night festival with the Django Swing Band – Budapest

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The Django Swing Band is Hungary’s first Django-Pop Band

Tuesday, January, 20. 2015. 

 7.30 p.m.

Palace of Arts

District IX.,  l. Komor Marcell Street – Budapest

Swing à la Django band is giving a concert with celebrity guests as:  the Dohnányi Orchestra, conducted by Gábor Werner with guests: Pankastic!, András Hajós Micheller Myrtill Edina Szirtes Mókus and Tcha Badji (FR & CAN).

In Hungary and abroad had been proven many times, by the members of the Swing band Django the Hungarian music scene is rich in outstanding colors. At this unique concert straight from France are coming the French Tcha Badji manouche swing authentic band.

Swing à la Django is an innovative six-piece band (hardwood  Pál Lombos – bass, Dániel Kardos – guitar, József Csurkulya – dulcimer, Vilmos Seres – clarinet, accordion, Márk Horvath – guitar, Bence Gazda – violin. This created the unusual formation harmony sound authentic Hungarian music, French chansons and mixers of world manouche, jazz, swing and tango having the colors of the rainbow within their unique style.

Behind them are many years of experience gained at domestic and foreign concerts. wherever they stepped on stage their performances received endless applause. The band  enjoys going back to the roots, mostly inspired by Django Reinhardt … the Belgian-born genre gypsy jazz guitarist … stepping into the atmosphere  … Roaring in the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Update by Aggie Reiter

10 Jan

“150 Years of the Vigadó” – Budapest – Hungary

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January is the Ballroom season  … The first public dance ball was held 150 years ago!

Coming up … „Back to the Future”

Just a year before the 150th anniversary of the VIGADÓ, the “Hungarian Academy of Arts” was officially opened on March, 14. 2014. with an exhibition commemorating the oeuvre of Imre Makovecz, the founder of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.

The building’s predecessor, the Redoute and Vigadó originally was intended to be a Ballroom of dance and at that time there was no such right size of place. In 1865 the Vigadó Overture solved this gap by opening the Ballroom to the first public dance.

The Vigadó operational HQ’s of the Hungarian Academy of Arts is celebrating this year its 150th anniversary of the opening and shoots off with a series of programs in the frame of: “150 Years of the Vigadó”

The Hungarian Academy of Arts is proud to contribute to the Jubilee bonded rich in past of the Vigadó, and just as in 1865 celebrated within a  series of programs for over a month …  so remembering the past, this year on its 150 anniversary, the public body also decided to round mark the anniversary by handing over many cultural programs.

One of the outstanding event in January will be on Thursday, January, 29. at 8.15 p.m. with live broadcasting from the Royal Opera House – London „Giordano: André Chénier”  in the Chamber Hall.  

Venue: District, V., –  2. Vigadó Square – Budapest.

Naturally, the multi-applicability had the advantage in the early years and in a short time the most successful international composers also were performing at the Ceremonial Hall. To-day still functioning as a „center of artistic” – Vigadó Concert Hall in Budapest and also known as a sophisticated building in Europe.

The Vigadó Hall is the only venue in Hungary to have six branch of arts showing in one day at a time. In the building around the historic spaces can be held, visited different productions and sites, as: conference, concert, exhibition, library, Chamber Hall, Vigadó Gallery, coffee-house.

If these „Walls” could speak over a handful of unique events …  ice balls, fancy-dress parties … etc.

Some backgrounds … Most luxurious ball to be hosted at the Vigadó was the one organized by the National Rowing and Sailing Association in 1870, with a rich order of dances, lavish props, a sailor-suit military band, and a goldfish pool. The most noteworthy ball was the one commemorating István Széchenyi, known in Hungary as “the greatest Hungarian”. In 1867 Emperor Franz Joseph attended the banquet hosted by the Vigadó in honour of his coronation, and it was also here that Budapest was born by the merger of the old cities of Pest, Buda and Óbuda (old Buda).

The Vigadó hosted the first all-Liszt concert in Hungary in 1869 At his celebration of his half-century artistic career, Liszt was presented with a gold laurel wreath and a number of foreign awards, including honorary membership of the St. Petersburg Academy of Music. In 1875 Liszt and Wagner co-organized a concert to raise funds for the construction of the Bayreuth Theater (Festspielhaus) – Germany.

The Vigadó also hosted performances by: Johann Strauss Jr.,Mascagni, Dvořak, Debussy, Arthur Rubinstein. Ernő Dohnányi had his first solo concert here. Béla Bartók and Annie Fischer made their debuts here in 1905 and 1932 respectively. Richard Strauss conducted from the rostrum of the Vigadó several times, and Prokofiev also appeared on its stage as a pianist.

Beside classical music, jazz had also found its way into the music ears within the Vigadó programs. Teddy Sinclair conducted the Savoy Orphée band with a flashlight as a baton in 1928. Also the outstanding twenty-four-piano jazz concert was organized  by the Saxon Concert Office during the spring of 1937.

From among the Hungarian conductor celebrities, János Ferencsik conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time here in 1938. The last foreign guest conductor to appear here before the end of the war was Herbert von Karajan in 1944.

World-famous performers who stepped on stage at the newly reconstructed Vigadó, included György Cziffra, Dénes Kovács, Eszter Perényi, Miklós Szenthelyi, and Sviatoslav Richter. Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi conducted the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra here as well.

Update by Aggie Reiter

6 Jan

HAPPY NEW YEAR – 2015!

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19 Dec

SETTING UP THE WINE XMAS TREE – CITY PARK – ICE RINK – BUDAPEST – 2014.

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The Advent Fair’s was rich with exhibitors arriving to Budapest from the region of Lake Balaton!

The event organizers at the Capital welcomed with a special surprise for the invited guests by a technology giant 10 meter length ice frozen Lake Balaton silhouette at the City Park – Ice Rink. Here this day, you could skate around the lake as a Olympics champ within minutes. (By-the-way, the original size of the Lake Balaton is impressive … 78 km long in length, widest point in the north and the south coast 14 kilometers apart, and in total of 592 square kilometers. So in Hungary stands Europe’s largest freshwater lake. Locals referred to it as the “Hungarian Sea”,  no wonder because centuries-and-centuries ago this area actually was covered with water of the sea.)

The Lake Balaton circle’s wineries brought their particularly fine unique wines to Budapest to build a spectacular Xmas tree in the middle of the ice rink, whereas the skaters were addressed through the loudspeaker to skate to the Xmas tree and have a taste of the wines from the area of the Hungarian Sea.  Dr. Ádám Ruszinkó, Assistant Secretary of State for Tourism opened the event by saying this is the first Lake-Saloon and Wine Xmas tree that reminds us of the beauty  full year around of Lake Balaton and especially  drawing attention to the coming season’s holiday, as the “Best gift for Xmas is the Lake Balaton”.  In other words, the organizers aim was to offer for the Lake Balaton lovers the experience to spend time in the shortly coming season holiday, having a wellness week-end during the New Year’s Eve by the lakeside and/or take a wine tour, pick up some gifts, or craft at one of the fine winemaker’s winery introduced at this event.  Also said, of course, the list is long of those wineries from the  Region of Lake Balaton whom were not present at the  set up of the Wine Xmas tree  and to have had the possibility to taste their superb wines. Anyway, in the meantime, indeed worthwhile to learn about the opportunities  here on the spot offered by the region’s producers and find that special taste you are looking for. At the event all the products were available to purchase.

Exhibitors. Wine makers: Bezerics, Bújdosó, Istvándy, Konyari; Laposa, Légli, Palffy, St. Donát, Szeremley, VáliBor, Villa Tolnay.  No surprize when talking about wine regions in Hungary to have our eyes  at the same time  their  local gastronomy, special delights. Here the Balatonízlelő craft delicatessen, Bergmann Confectionery, delicatessen Gurman, Gabor Pach fruit pálinka, Kistücsök Restaurant delicatessen products, Balaton Uplands National Park craft products were on the spot to taste and purchase some goodies to serve at the coming event. That evening the Hungarian National Tourist Office represented  one of the most cosy hotel’s at the northern area of Lake Balaton, the Bonvino Badacsony Hotel.

The event’s guest of honor was by the presence of  Kreinbacher  and Tornai from the Somlói wine region.

This fall, have launched the Lake Balaton wines quality assurance system.  The best lakeside producers were here from the wine region. The tender was out in designing the unified label. In addition, been initiated  to introduction the trademark of  quality wines from Lake Balaton and to ensure to be more successful in the communication area.

Gábor Kardos – president of the Lake Circle, the idea to host the event said … Quote: „”The regional branding is globally a successful model and we also see it here in our Homeland the importance to show, offer and introduce to Europe’s  major cities the Lake Balaton region’s wine makers presenting “Best of Lake Balaton” as well. „

The Vocational Service of Hungary Water Rescue supported the event by joining the event with a mascot dressed in red . The bearded, wearing cool sunglasses “hipster” was an image of a loose, casually youthful Santa Claus around the Lake Balaton.

Added to the advent wreath, the lifeguards brought rescue rings and wine bottles with candles placed inside highlighted the magical mood on Advent’s Silver Sunday.

In addition to the wines Xmas tree, the wine makers lit along with the other exhibitors the advent wreath candles placed on a ship’s rescue belt. What an  awesome  way to celebrate  an  Advent Fair venue,  bringing, showing wine makers to the Capital at City Park’s  Ice Rink.

After having fun out on the ice rink, inside the assembly hall the tasting-party continued with the delicious wines and having typically Hungarian Xmas sweets, cakes and all that sweet tooth lovers eyes and senses can imagen. Just whispering … I got madly in love with the heavenly taste of the 100% of white grape juice from the Istvándy winery.

Update and snaps by Aggie Reiter

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