Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer
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Béla Bartók: Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz.100 for orchestra
interspersed with unaccompanied traditional songs
Interval
Béla Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle - opera in 1 act
(concert performance in Hungarian with English surtitles)
The Budapest Festival Orchestra presents Bartók’s dark and disquieting opera, steeped in Hungarian folk tradition.
The combination of this ‘ultra-charismatic’ orchestra and music director Iván Fischer has been described by The Guardian as ‘intoxicating’.
Bartók had a lifetime devotion to folk music and hoped that his Hungarian Peasant Songs, based on authentic Hungarian melodies and orchestrated in 1933, would open up these pretty folk melodies to a wider audience.
Written in Budapest, Bartók’s single opera is a bloodthirsty fairytale with strong psychological and erotic undertones. Featuring just two characters, it’s arresting performed in concert.
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Founded only in 1983, the Budapest Festival Orchestra has established itself as one of the great new orchestras of the world.
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