“I wish the audience to experience the same miracle I experienced” Frédéric Chopin once told their friends that even if he dies, he will still hear from the afterworld if they play something to commemorate him. A friend enthusiastically offered to play his cello-piano sonatas, but then Chopin said: “No,...
After Bach’s birthday last weekend, today we celebrate the last one of the “Four Big B’s” (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók). And it is even a round anniversary: the composer who defined 20th century music fundamentally, not only in his homeland Hungary but internationally, was born 140 years ago. We can...
Müpa has held a lot of birthdays already. Last time it was György Kurtág whom we could celebrate in front of our screens with the help of a live streamed concert and beautiful archive videos. Also, Péter Eötvös had a Müpa-birthday some years ago, where actor Pál Mácsai recited Péter...
In the online series of Müpa Home, there is another special concert that we can enjoy from our homes on the 23th of February, 7:30 pm. “A dinner where all courses are cakes! But they are so satisfyingly different!” – says the teaser of Müpa about this online broadcasted concert...
Valentine’s Day won’t be the most romantic day of this month this year. Indeed, it will be the 6th of February, a Saturday. We can’t go to coffeeshops, restaurants, let alone concerts with our beloved one yet, but this all-day free music marathon is designed to play at home. Between...
The last few months were so weird. Like some hybrid species from mythology, there were pandemic restrictions and there weren’t because “economy has to work”, and economy worked and didn’t work because “the virus has to be stopped”. Until recently, it seemed like even theatre plays, concerts and other mass...
In the beginning of the 20th century, among other art forms, the revival movement of the avant-garde also reached the domain of music. Lust for experimenting, rebelling, passionately wanting something new are all present in the works created in the era under the influence of this then-new style. József Balog,...
In commemoration of Annie Fischer, the internationally renowned pianist, a two-part concert will be held on the 16th of October 2020 in the Inner City Parish Church in Pest and the Három Holló (Three Ravens) Café. There will be works of six female componists, with the first part only consisting...
According to some theories, the number 75 is an angelic combination, a reference of how something will change for us soon, bringing us to reach a goal and enrich our life. This magical number is connected to the concert on 23th September, 7:30 pm, by the Miskolc Symphonic Orchestra, part...
MÜPA CAN BRING SOME JOY AND COLOURS IN QUARANTINE LIFE Even some months ago we could not have imagined that we will have to stay at home and the online space will be our only way to consume cultural contents, even the greatest concerts and shows. COVID-19, however, changed our...
Péter Eötvös is internationally well-known and acknowledged, and he’s even Artist of the Year at the Müpa (he will perform with the Hungarian National Philharmonics, and conduct his own pieces soon). He’s kind of a headliner whose name makes audience pay attention. There is another name, though, on the margin...
Péter Dobszay and the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, Müpa, 24 February 2019, 7:30 pm Thinking about he is only 26 and how much he is praised already by masters like Michel Béroff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Vásáry Tamás, Ivan Moravec or Leslie Howard, he still seems to be a quite humble man. Instead...
There is a book in the Harry Potter series in which British wizards host foreign guests to organize a championship between the most talented students of three schools – and three countries, regions, cultures. These young people are chosen by a magical object, the Goblet of Fire, which is also...
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...
Once a child prodigy who toured at the age of ten, Maxim Vengerov returns to the Hungarian concert platform with his students, and Péter Frankl makes chamber music with a cellist fifty years younger than him, István Várdai, in what promise to be two of the most exciting concerts in...
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...
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...
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