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A Self-Aware Orchestra
#Andrés Orozco-Estrada #BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Kristóf Csengery #Müpa #Vienna Philharmonic #Yefim Bronfman

A Self-Aware Orchestra

A more colourful example of the ability of music to transcend cultures could hardly be found: Columbia, Uzbekistan, and Austria meet in Budapest, in the spirit of Beethoven, Bartók, and Stravinsky. An orchestra dear to our hearts, but once barred for decades from performing in the Hungarian capital, arrives in...
Antidote to the False Glamour
#BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Péter Varga #Roger Norrington

Antidote to the False Glamour

After a long interval Sir Roger Norrington conducts again in Budapest. The eighty-three year old British conductor, known for his much discussed approach to performance, the first to record all Beethoven’s symphonies with the original tempo markings, conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a Mozart programme. In...
From the Heart of Transylvania to the Met
#Brigitta Kele #BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Dóra Melis #Ferenc Liszt #oratorical music #The Legend of St. Elizabeth

From the Heart of Transylvania to the Met

Barely seven years old, a little girl in a small church in Oradea, in the St. Catherine estate started her career: she was playing Mary in the nativity play. Thanks to her stamina she strode confidently up the imaginary rungs of the opera world, until in 2016 she reached the...
Who Wears the Trousers?
#BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #conductor #Emmanuelle Haïm #female conductor #girlpower #Leonóra Mörk #Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla #womanpower

Who Wears the Trousers?

Though a few decades ago Herbert von Karajan, the conductor who long defined the profile of the Berlin Philharmonic, declared that women’s place was in the kitchen, not a symphony orchestra, there is no corner of classical music where they are not present. Nowadays more and more women are taking...
I don’t know… Am I supposed to know? – Kurt Elling on jazz, poetry and existential questions
#improvization #jazz #Kurt Elling #lyrics #Müpa #Rainer Maria Rilke #The Questions #vocalese

I don’t know… Am I supposed to know? – Kurt Elling on jazz, poetry and existential questions

I’ve heard that Kurt Elling is a quite busy artist who is hard to reach even through his manager to answer some e-mail questions. I can’t even imagine how does a Grammy-awarded jazz singer, composer and lyricist live his life. But I guess he has little time for long, coffee...
Behold the man who composes, sings and conducts the same piece of music
#Argentina #Ecce Homo #José Cura #Magnificat #Modus #Müpa #opera #oratorical music

Behold the man who composes, sings and conducts the same piece of music

Many people think that church music is something old, boring, left from the period of powdered wigs, not being able to tell anything new to today’s society. For years, as a member of permanent or temporary church formations, I’ve been trying to persuade people to give this genre a second...
Ten stunning facts about an extraordinary career – Dona Onete in the spotlight
#Amazonas #Brazil #Dona Onete #folk music #Müpa #world music

Ten stunning facts about an extraordinary career – Dona Onete in the spotlight

You don’t have too much luck if you search for informations on Dona Onete in English. Her website is only available in Portuguese, her biography is brief, and there is hardly anything else about her in the big music databases. She is so humble and hiding, as if she herself...
You can be honest and have fun at the same time – interview with Robert Glasper
#Grammy Award #jazz #Müpa #Nóra Ünnep #Robert Glasper

You can be honest and have fun at the same time – interview with Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist and his band, the Robert Glasper Experiment performed at the Müpa in Budapest on April 16, 2016.We talked to Robert at a hotel by the Danube a few hours before the concert. He is just like his music: honest and enthralling. Let’s...
A viral video brought world fame to Naturally 7 – interview with tenor Warren Thomas
#a cappella #concert #Müpa #Naturally 7. #Nóra Ünnep #video #viral

A viral video brought world fame to Naturally 7 – interview with tenor Warren Thomas

Interview with the Naturally 7. – Concert in Müpa In the early years of the band, you hesitated between having a traditional or an a cappella group. What made you choose the a cappella style? Our Church experience really played an important factor in that, many of us sang in...
Arcade Fire, Bobby McFerrin, Roger Waters to play in Hungary in 2018

Arcade Fire, Bobby McFerrin, Roger Waters to play in Hungary in 2018

The list of international acts already booked to play in Hungary next year includes Arcade Fire, Bobby McFerrin, Roger Waters, Rod Stewart, Lenny Kravitz, Depeche Mode, Enrique Iglesias, Tricky, James Blunt, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Billy Idol, Queens of the Stone Age, Body Count, Marillion, Jan Garbarek and Gipsy Kings....

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