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20 Dec

Tchaikovsky evening – Xmas Concert – Concerto Budapest – December 23&24.

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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

3 Feb

Pinchas Zukerman Violinist @ Budapest

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Grand Hall of the Music Academy

Friday, 7 p.m. February, 25, 2022.

District, VI., 8. Liszt Ferenc Square – Budapest

Pinchas Zukerman

Pinchas Zukerman a world-famous violinist and violinist, will visit Budapest and, as a guest of the MÁV Symphony Orchester, will fill the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Grand Hall.

There are no barriers to language skills to enjoy music!

Contributing: Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Manager: Gábor Takács-Nagy, Director: MÁV Symphonic Orchester.

Will be performed … Kodály: Dances of Galanta – Kodály: János Háry suite – Kodály: The peacock variations on Hungarian folk song – Bartók: Viola Competition.

(Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv, to Jewish parents and Holocaust survivors. He began his musical studies at age four, on the recorder. His father then taught him to play the clarinet and then the violin at age eight. Early studies were at the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music (now the

). Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals learned of Zukerman’s violin talent during a 1962 visit to Israel. Zukerman subsequently moved to the United States that year to study at the Juilliard School under Stern and Ivan Galamian. He made his New York City debut in 1963. In 1967, he shared the Leventritt Prize with the Korean violinist Kyung-wha Chung. His 1969 debut recordings of the concert by Tchaikovsky (under the direction of Antal Dorati, with the London Symphony Orchestra) and Mendelssohn (with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic) launched a successful recording career of over 110 releases … (quoting from Wikipedia)

On March 25, 2021, the MÁV Symphony Orchester prepared for a festive concert on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Béla Bartók. The concert would have been made even more celebratory by the performance of world-renowned violin and violinist Pinchas Zukerman. His idea was the special “birthday present” to perform the duo of Zoltán Kodály with the help of the wife of an excellent cellist at the beginning of the concert. The work, composed in 1914, is Hungarian music to the fullest, using the possibilities of the two instruments beautifully. The Viola Competition was created during the composer’s emigration to the United States, but due to his illness he was no longer able to finish it. The competition was completed by his friend, Tibor Serly, following the author’s sketches and personal guidance. This concert was missed in 2021 due to the corona epidemic, but to the for music-loving audience with great pleasure Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth will come to Budapest and hopefully that this time there will be no obstacle to holding the special concert.

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Update Aggie Reiter