Bea Palya welcomes Estonian Mari Kalkun to Hungary
Bea Palya and Mari Kalkun in Tallinn and soon found that they understood each other very well, both musically and personally.
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Ivan Repušić: I Lombardi and Nabucco are twin plays – an interview
Earlier Verdi operas are rarely performed, but the line-up of the Munich Radio Orchestra is optimal for these works – Ivan Repušić explains.
Ferenc Szijj and the little man lost in the intricate system
Humour, as Ferenc Szijj does it, offers a predominantly absurd and grotesque quality and an ironic tone, similar to István Örkény.
Did Borodin really write Prince Igor?
Married for love, Borodin became a champion of women’s rights under the influence of his wife, the pianist Ekaterina Protapopova.
Frau Holle is a children’s opera this time
The story of Frau Holle describes an important characteristic of being ready for school – a sense of responsibility.
A wise woman gives up her younger love for the heiress
A wise woman who, realising her age, gives up her much younger love for a young and beautiful heiress in Der Rosenkavalier.
Adams and Durante: musicians of deep emotions
Adams and Durante investigate the common ground between the music of the two sides of the Mediterranean: North Africa and South Italy.
Strauss’ Zarathustra absorbs you completely
“Zarathustra was thirty years old when he left his native land and the lake of his native land and retreated to the mountains.”
Ligeti 100: “Music as frozen time, as an object in imaginary space”
The 1960s and early 1970s were a very productive period for Ligeti. He composed, among other things, the Cello Concerto and Chamber Concerto.
Composer Benjámin Eredics evokes Hungary in Ottoman times
Typical, characteristic figures of the period and the wild and romantic surroundings of the Hungarian castles feature in Eredics ‘s music.
From East to iLand: history of a Hungarian progressive rock band
The songs on the new group’s first album The Island are very cohesive: they are flowing naturally into each other.
Ancient, ritual melodies with Mazaher at the Budapest Ritmo
A fascinating aspect of this ancient ritual is that it is predominantly performed by women, with only a handful of men participating.
The cosmic flight of sixteen swans
As we listen to the swans marching in Symphony No. 5 by Sibelius, we feel very small as part of an infinite universe.
Rural people were keeping touch with the dead at Easter
There are different variations for the Easter “splashing”, from immersing the person in a lot of water to to some slight sprinkling.
Saint Omer: Terribly Human Monsters
Saint Omer is an edgy and emotionally turbulent courtroom drama painted with thick brushstrokes of mystery.
The Miraculous Mandarin: immoral at its time, classic today
“The Mandarin will be diabolic music. The listener would be led from the turmoil of a metropolis to the tramp ranch.”
Women Talking ~ a review by Dora Endre
The narration underlines the importance of early formative experience as well as the lingering presence of transgenerational traumas.
Nathan Laube: Every organ tells a different story
Nathan Laube has a deep knowledge of every single key, pedal and register of the most important European and American organs.
A love triangle between brothers – Rameau’s Castor and Pollux
Castor and Pollux are indeed twin brothers, but from two different fathers. Pollux, Zeus’ son, is immortal, but Castor is mortal…
Renaissance poet Bálint Balassi meets an actor and an orchestra
Balassi still belonged to the generation who wrote poems to melodies, so they are a great match to early music.
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