Studio 11 is 60 years old – interview with Gyula Tóth
We try to keep our history alive, and fortunately there are opportunities to do so – says band leader Gyula Tóth about Studio 11.
Music
Bartók meets ska: PASO launches its new album!
Victor Rice met Hungarian PASO through his passion for Bartók. Is Jamaican ska similar to Central and Eastern European music? Come and see!
What childhood fear fantasies did Ligeti have…?
Requiem by Ligeti has an indescribably powerful effect on the listener and brings us to a true catharsis that stays with us for long.
Mísia – and her melancholic, brooding, passionate fado
Mísia uses innovative techniques because she aims to preserve the values of traditional fado while adding something new to the genre.
You might see Martin Grubinger on stage for the last time
Martin Grubinger is famous for practising until he collapses in the rehearsal room, and when he wakes up again, he sits back to the drums…
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.