BFO season brochure 2014-15 by Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar

Budapest Festival Orchestra Season 2014-15

2014-15 The BFO soars

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CONTENTs

Greetings 4 BFO 6 Bridging Europe 15 Concerts 27 young BFO 63 BFo in the community 73 Sunday Chamber Music 77 BFo around the world 83 Supporters and Sponsors 87 Tickets 99 concert calendar 115

Greetings

Dear Friends and Concertgoers, After a successful anniversary season full of musical flights of fancy, we are delighted to announce a new and exciting season of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. A complete cycle of the symphonies of Johannes Brahms will open and end the season, spanning a varied programme put together by Ivan Fischer. You will soar above as you re-discover old favourites and as new discoveries become familiar. The season kicks off with the Bridging Europe Festival, in cooperation with our strategic partner MUPA, and is dedicated to the musical culture of Germany. It marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain and acknowledges Hungaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in this historic moment. In addition to the concerts in the MUPA, in the coming season the Budapest Festival Orchestra will also perform in the heart of Budapest in the Music Academy, one of the most beautiful and sumptuous halls in Europe. With musical highlights including great orchestral works, Viennese classics and Baroque music on period instruments these concerts will elevate you to new heights.

Without doubt you will be inspired by the resurgence of the traditional surprise concerts. On the 26th and 27th of December Ivan Fischer and the BFO will present an astounding and unforgettable musical Christmas gift in the Budapest Congress Centre, where you can celebrate the end of the year together with other friends of the orchestra.

Greetings

Another tradition of the Budapest Festival Orchestra is the “staged concerts” with music and stage direction by Ivan Fischer, which in recent years have been celebrated not only in Budapest but also internationally (in 2013 Figaro was production of the year in New York). In March 2015 you will be enchanted by Mozart’s last and most mysterious opera, The Magic Flute, with a fantastic cast in a co-production with the Palace of Arts. I would also like to draw your attention to the activities of the BFO outside of the concert hall. In recent seasons our education activities have been expanded so as many young people as possible can experience the magic of music. For our next step we have brought a number of community projects to life, in June 2014 the first will be seen and heard with concerts in retirement homes, churches and synagogues. The Budapest Festival Orchestra wants to position classical music in mainstream society because it is our firm conviction that it enriches the lives of all people and breaks down barriers. All of this would not be possible without support from many sides. I am especially grateful to the Ministry of National Resources, the City of Budapest, our sponsors, members of the Supporters’ Club and the international friends of the BFO. Most of all I thank you, our loyal audience, for attending concerts and providing the support to give the Budapest Festival Orchestra wings! Please continue to support us in the future. Yours sincerely, Stefan Englert

BFO

Formed over thirty years ago and considered one of the ten best orchestras in the world, the Budapest Festival Orchestra is a success story of Hungary’s musical life. One key to this success is music director Iván Fischer, who was one of the founders along with Zoltán Kocsis. The unique arrangement in which the BFO works allows the individual artistic qualities of its musicians to culminate in a singularly consistent orchestral sound. Critics and audiences alike readily acknowledge its captivating performance style, which is marked by an attention to detail characteristic of chamber musicians, and the sheer energy with which the joy of making music together is conveyed. Over the decades, the Festival Orchestra has brought such world stars to the concert halls of Hungary as György Solti (who was the BFO’s first guest conductor until his death), Yehudi Menuhin, Pinchas Zukerman, Gidon Kremer, Radu Lupu, Sándor Végh, András Schiff and Richard Goode. The Orchestra performs in the world’s leading musical centres (including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw), and it is a regular guest of many prestigious international festivals.

The Orchestra has also established its own festival in cooperation the Palace of Arts. “Bridging Europe” focuses on the culture of a different country each year. The BFO’s famed musical marathons, in turn, devote an entire day of concerts to a single composer. Also co-produced with the Palace of Arts are the staged concert performances of operas that Iván Fischer directs. Following highly successful stagings of Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, next to come is The Magic Flute.

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B F O , t h e o r c h e s t r a of a u d i e n c e s

THE BFO REGULARLY PERFORMS FOR younger audiences. The youngest of children can enjoy the now traditional Cocoa Concerts. “Choose Your Instrument!” is for those aged 6–14, while older teenagers can enter a musical video competition. The concerts of the “Midnight Music” series, organised for young adults, have met with resounding success. This season sees the introduction of new community programmes, with free concerts around the country, in synagogues, churches and homes for the elderly. The BFO boasts an impressive list of acknowledgments. In 2008, internationally renowned music critics voted it the 9th best orchestra in the world, outdoing such prestigious ensembles as the New York Philharmonic or Boston Symphony Orchestra. New York Magazine named the BFO’s production of Marriage of Figaro the best of the Big Apple’s top ten classical music events of 2013. The orchestra’s albums have won the Gramophone Award, the musical “Oscar”, on two occasions, and its recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2013.

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Iván Fischer Iván Fischer is the music director and one of the founders of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, as well as music director of the Berlin Konzerthaus and the Konzerthausorchester. In recent years, he has been very active as a composer, with works presented in the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, Germany and Austria. He has also directed highly successful opera productions. His thirty years with the Budapest Festival Orchestra have been one of the greatest success stories of classical music. Iván Fischer is considered one of the world’s foremost orchestra leaders with a renown based on the vigorous international touring presence of his orchestra and a series of records under the Philips Classics, then the Channel Classics labels which have received considerable professional acclaim and audience interest. As a guest conductor, Iván Fischer works with the world’s best symphonic orchestras. He has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on more than ten occasions, he spends two weeks every year with the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and he is frequently at the helm of such leading American ensembles as the New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra. He has served as music director at the Kent Opera and the Opéra National de Lyon, and he was the first conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. Several of his recordings have received prestigious international awards. In Budapest, he studied the piano, then the violin and later the cello, in addition to composition, before attending Hans Swarowsky’s conducting class in Vienna. Iván Fischer is a founder of the Hungarian Mahler Society and patron of the British Kodály Academy. He received the Golden Medal Award from the President of the Republic of Hungary and the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum for his services to help international cultural relations. The French government named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2006, he was honoured with the Kossuth Prize, Hungary’s most prestigious arts award. He is an honorary citizen of Budapest. In 2011, he received the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Music Award and the De Ovatie Award of the Netherlands. In 2013, London’s Royal Academy of Music elected him an honorary member.

MUSICIANS OF THE BFO

Violin Bence Asztalos Zsuzsanna Berentés Ágnes Bíró Antónia Bodó Balázs Bujtor Csaba Czenke Györgyi Czirók Violetta Eckhardt, concertmaster Mária Gál-Tamási Tibor Gátay Emese Gulyás Giovanni Guzzo, concertmaster Krisztina Haják Radu Hrib Erika Illési Tímea Iván, principal István Kádár Péter Kostyál Zsófia Lezsák Eszter Lesták Bedő Tamás Major, concertmaster Noémi Molnár Anikó Mózes Gyöngyvér Oláh János Pilz, principal Gábor Sipos Levente Szabó Zsolt Szefcsik Gabriella Takácsné Nagy Zoltán Tuska Viola Miklós Bányai Judit Bende Cecília Bodolai László Bolyki Ágnes Csoma Zoltán Fekete Ferenc Gábor, principal Csaba Gálfi Barna Juhász Péter Lukács, principal István Polónyi István Rajncsák Nikoletta Reinhardt Nao Yamamoto

Cello László Bánk Lajos Dvorák Éva Eckhardt György Kertész Gabriella Liptai

Kousay Mahdi György Markó Orsolya Mód Rita Sovány Péter Szabó, principal Double Bass Zsolt Fejérvári, principal Alajos H. Zováthy Károly Kaszás Géza Lajhó László Lévai Csaba Magyar Attila Martos Csaba Sipos Flute Anett Jóföldi Zsuzsanna Kovács-Madai Bernadett Nagy Gabriella Pivon, principal Erika Sebők, principal Oboe Victor Aviat, principal Emmaunel Laville, principal Eva Neuszerova Clément Noël Holly Randall Jeremy Sassano Clarinet Ákos Ács, principal Roland Csalló Rudolf Szitka

Balázs Tóth Zoltán Tóth Trombone Péter Bálint I. Justin Clark Viktor Dániel Nagy Balázs Szakszon, principal Norbert Zakó Tuba József Bazsinka Harp Ágnes Polónyi Júlia Szilvásy Timpani Roland Dénes Percussion Boglárka Fábry László Herboly István Kurcsák Gábor Pusztai Gáspár Szente Keyboard instruments Dávid Báll Gábor Bartinai Soma Dinyés Zoltán Fejérvári László Adrián Nagy

Bassoon Andrea Bressan, principal Mihály Duffek Sándor Patkós Dániel Tallián Horn Dávid Bereczky Péter Dávida, principal Miklós Nagy, principal Zsombor Nagy András Szabó Zoltán Szőke, principal Trumpet Zsolt Czeglédy, principal Bence Horváth Tamás Póti

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BRIDGING EUROPE

German Culture in the Spotlight “We have started something that I think is badly needed. We badly need Europe. I’d like musicians to keep their eyes on Europe as much as politicians do. We need to do all we can so that people in Europe, the nations and people, know more about one another, grow closer to one another, so that rather than entertaining empty clichés about one another, we actually learn something about other countries,” said Iván Fischer about the joint event of the BFO and the Palace of Arts, first held in September 2013. Each year, the Bridging Europe Festival seeks to highlight the culture of a different European nation, mostly through its music. The organisers are convinced that “culture is best suited to facilitate communication between nations, and considering how much Europe’s people need trust and friendliness among each other, art is widely used to further this process of integration. Famed for its bridges over the Danube, Budapest is probably a fitting scene for a festival where Europeans can meet with the intention of learning about the cultural values of other Europeans.” The organisers of the festival choose a different European country every year, one with great musical traditions, because music reveals more about people than anything else. The first country to be presented was the Czech Republic. In September 2014, German musical culture will be featured with both better – and lesser – known pieces by composers from Muffat and Brahms to Weill and contemporary artists. While the bridge allows festival audiences to reach a different culture every year, some piers are permanent, such as the international conference dedicated to the culture of the guest nation. Discussed this year will be various aspects of German culture. The President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, is patron of the Bridging Europe Festival. 16

The Bridging Europe Festival is generously supported by K&H.

V i e w f r om t h e L o r e l e y

WEILL JANKÓ NOVÁK

September 10 Palace of Arts, Festival Theatre 10th Wednesday 7 pm

Kurt Weill Elisabeth Hauptmann Bertolt Brecht: Der Jasager (He Said Yes) conductor: Zsolt Jankó director: Eszter Novák

Elisabeth Hauptmann and Bertolt Brecht’s school drama (intended for performance by children) was set to music by Kurt Weill and the resulting school opera was published in 1930 and produced the same year at the Central Institution for Pedagogy and Education. The play is based on a 15th-century Japanese Noh drama, which considers whether one should agree to be sacrificed for the sake of the community. The opera relates a simple story in ten musical blocks. A boy sets out to a land beyond the mountains to bring medicine and help from the “great doctors” for his ill mother. He himself falls ill during the journey. He cannot go on, nor can his fellow travellers take him along. He agrees to be executed in accordance with an old “great custom”. From the mountain, he is pushed into a ravine, to death. The boy’s “agreement” has been interpreted in a variety of manners: as a sign of religious conviction; as sacrifice for the community; as blind compliance with senseless norms; as respect towards the samurai tradition; or as a provocation of the audience, a call for debate. (Brecht also wrote a companion piece, He Said No, but it was never set to music.)

Weill and Brecht’s school opera represents the spirit of reform

pedagogy – the intention is to link the sense of community and musical education through joint music making and acting, as well as to popularize a new thought in musical theatre. The play was often performed in schools, as originally intended. The amateur productions erased the barrier between the performers and the audience, and the latter were often involved in the performance. Radio, the new medium of the period, was also employed to reach out to audiences that could not otherwise benefit from the live performances, and the premiere was broadcast live.

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HENZE RIHM TROJAHN WIDMANN OLLU WiederAtherton

September 11 Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 11th Thursday 7:45 pm

Hans Werner Henze: L’Heure Bleue Wolfgang Rihm: Versuchung. Hommage à Max Beckmann für Violoncello und Orchester Manfred Trojahn: Contrevenir – pour ensemble – musique à la mémoire de H. W. Henze Jörg Widmann: Dubairische Tänze Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) conductor: Franck Ollu

The contemporary music concert of the Bridging Europe Festival presents one work each by four important German composers. Hans Werner Henze, who died in 2012 at the age of 86, was one of the most prolific German composers of the post-war period. Throughout a long career, he absorbed the most diverse influences from old and new music. He lived in Italy from 1953 until his death. L’Heure Bleue (The Blue Hour), a serenade for sixteen instruments, was commissioned by the Frankfurt Alte Oper. At its 2001 world premiere, it was conducted by the famous English composer and conductor Oliver Knussen. Born in 1952 and considered one of the most prominent artists in Germany both as a composer and as an author on music, Wolfgang Rihm acknowledges such early models as Hans Werner Henze, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luigi Nono. Literature and the visual arts have a profound influence on his thinking as a composer. Versuchung (Temptation), a piece for the cello and orchestra, was inspired, as is often the case with Rihm, by a work of visual art, The Temptation of St Anthony, a triptych by the great 20th-century German painter Max Beckmann.

Manfred Trojahn, who was born in 1949, originally studied the flute to be an musician, before studying composition and conducting. His first compositions were presented in the early 1970s. The symphonies, string quartets and songs with orchestral accompaniment are particularly noteworthy in an oeuvre that spans almost all genres and forms. Contrevenir, the piece we will now perform, was written in memory of Hans Werner Henze.

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Jörg Widmann, another well-known composer, was born in 1973. He has also earned a name as a clarinetist, both as a virtuoso interpreter of the literature and as an artist to whom several contemporary pieces have been dedicated. His Dubairische Tänze (“Dubavarian Dances”) was inspired by the musical experiences of a month’s stay in Dubai, as well as the music of his homeland Bavaria.

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Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 conductor: Iván Fischer

September 12-13-14

BRAHMS FISCHER

Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 12th Friday 7:45 pm, Solti 13th Saturday 7:45 pm Doráti 14th Sunday 3:30 pm Reiner

Brahms plays a key role in the new season of the BFO. In September and May, all four symphonies of the composer will be performed under the baton of Iván Fischer. It is conspicuous how late Brahms released his first symphony. He was 43 in 1876, when No. 1 premiered, and it had taken him at least fourteen years to finish it. The reason for his delay, said the composer, was that he was worried it would be taken for Beethoven’s tenth symphony, rather than his first, though his own perfectionism must also have played a part. The next decade saw him produce his other three masterworks in this form. He finished Symphony No. 3 in 1883, at the age of fifty. This F major piece represents a transition between the sunny serenity of No. 2 and the solemnity of No. 4. Its first three movements evoke the world of Viennese Classicism — only to be followed by a closing movement that is Romantic in every respect. Like Symphony No. 2, the piece was first performed by the Vienna Philharmonic with Hans Richter conducting. Brahms started writing his fourth symphony in the summer of 1884, and he finished it in 1885. He informed his friend, Hans von Bülow, about the completion of the work: “A pair of Entr’actes are to hand – such as together one commonly calls a symphony … I can’t stop thinking of the pleasure of starting the rehearsals with you. I don’t know whether a wider public will get to hear it. I fear it has the taste of the climate here – where the cherries never become sweet enough to eat!” The success of the October 1885 world premiere, where the conductor was von Bülow, was to prove the composer’s worries unfounded.

MUFFAT HANDEL SEILER SUH T’Hooft

September 16 Palace of Arts, Festival Theatre 16th Tuesday 7:45 pm

Georg Muffat: Suite No. 1, from Florilegium primum Sonata No. 5 in G minor, from Armonico tributo George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 6 in G minor, Op. 6 Da tempeste il legno ... (Giulio Cesare) Laschia ch’io pianga (Rinaldo) I shall adore (Semele) Yeree Suh (soprano) artistic director and concertmaster: Midori Seiler Baroque gestures: Sigrid T’Hooft

On the Baroque evening of the Bridging Europe series, the baroque ensemble of the Budapest Festival Orchestra plays German Baroque music with the contribution and leadership of Midori Seiler. Born in Osaka to a Japanese mother and a Bavarian father, raised in Salzburg and now living in Berlin, Ms Seiler herself personifies a bridge between cultures. The same can also be said of the French-born Georg Muffat (1653-1704), who had Scottish ancestors. He lived in the court of the Sun King, learnt from Lully, and met Corelli, whom he admired, in Italy in the 1680s. He also worked in Prague and Salzburg, and was then Kapellmeister to the bishop of Passau from 1690 until his death. Florilegium primum and Florilegium secundum (first and second bouquet), the series of suites he wrote between 1695 and 1698, are fine illustrations of the interactions between the various musical styles of Europe. Published in 1682, Armonico tributo is a collection of sonatas (or, rather, of concerto grossi that bear the influence of Corelli and Lully).

No less was Handel a “one-man European bridge”, absorbing the music of Italy in the country itself, before settling in London and becoming one of the greatest figures of 18th-century English music. Musicologists believe the new stylistic elements in his 12-piece concerto grosso series (Op. 6) pre-empted the symphonic music of early Classicism. The three arias that close the concert are from Handel’s most popular operas. These beautiful bravura pieces, which demand virtuosity, offer an insight into the technical skills of the Baroque Era’s operatic singers. Here, they can be enjoyed together with the faithfully reconstructed gestures of the period’s opera stage.

Midori Seiler

Kousay Mahdi, cello

Concerts

G u s t a v M a hl e r

Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs Gustav Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer Symphony No. 4 Christine Schäfer (soprano) Tassis Christoyannis (baritone) conductor: Iván Fischer

October 03-04-05 Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 03rd Friday 7:45 pm Doráti 04th Saturday 7:45 pm Solti + Midnight Music 11:30 pm 05th Sunday 3:30 pm Reiner

STRAUSS MAHLER FISCHER SCHäFER CHRISTOYANNIS

Composed in 1948, the Four Last Songs, a set of pieces for soprano and orchestra, are the swan song of an aged Richard Strauss, who was distressed by his illness and the state of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. In 1947, he came across a poem by Eichendorff, Im Abendrot (In the Evening Glow), in which a couple, towards the end of a life spent together, stare at the setting sun and wonder whether this was death. The other songs of the cycle are based on Hermann Hesse’s poems. In fact, Strauss did not live to see the premiere, which took place in 1950, and featured one of the greatest singers of the time, Kirsten Flagstad, who sang under the baton of Wilhelm Furtwängler. Similarly autobiographically inspired was Gustav Mahler’s cycle, the Songs of a Wayfarer. The young Mahler, working as conductor at the Kassel theatre between 1883 and 1885, fell head over heels in love with the attractive, but capricious actress Johanna Richter. Having given a detailed account of his unrequited love to his friend Friedrich Löhr by the end of 1884, he also found the artistic medium for an expression of his emotions: six sharply contrasting folk poems in the collection called Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn), which he slightly altered. Four of them came to be used in the cycle, which he did not show to the secret object of his desire: “I have written a cycle of songs which are all dedicated to her. She has not seen them. What could they tell her that she does not know already? ... The sequence of the songs is to reflect the wanderings of a lad who runs away to escape the trials of fate.”

The last movement of the symphony Mahler completed in 1900, performed now in the second part of the concert, is a song he had written in 1882. Its lyrics, “Heavenly Life,” were also adopted from The Boy’s Magic Horn collection.

HAYDN MOZART VANHAL ROSSINI TAKÁCS-NAGY FEJÉRVÁRI BRESSAN

October 24-25 Academy of Music 24th Friday 7:45 pm Ormándy A 25th Saturday 7:45 pm Ormándy B

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 39 in G minor, Hob. I:39 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: German Dances, K. 571 Johann Baptist Vanhal: Concerto for Double Bass in D major Gioacchino Rossini: Bassoon Concerto Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K. 543 Zsolt Fejérvári (double bass) Andrea Bressan (bassoon) conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

Sturm und Drang was a German “outgrowth” of Sentimentalism, advocating in passion, talent, artlessness and national values in literature. It was an emotional revolt against feudalism and absolutism. The movement gained its name from the apt title of a contemporary German drama, written by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger in 1776. The spirit of Sturm und Drang, literally “storm and drive”, captivated not only men of letters. The young Haydn also composed a series of passionate symphonies of high pathos between 1768 and 1772. The opening piece of our concert belongs to this group. Those familiar with Mozart’s life know that the composer was obsessed with dance and was himself an excellent dancer. This was probably partly responsible for his lasting contribution to dance music. He wrote his first dance at the age of five, and as a young man in Salzburg, he would compose dance music for every occasion imaginable. The K. 571 series was written for the 1789 carnival season.

Mozart’s Czech contemporary, Johann Baptist Vanhal (or Jan Křtitel Vaňhal) lived and worked in Vienna from 1780 until his death. He was an acknowledged participant in the musical life of the imperial capital, leaving behind a vast oeuvre of some 1300 compositions. His concerto for double bass stands out among the few concertos written for the instrument. Writing mostly for the opera, Rossini composed relatively few 30

concertos. Nothing is known about the birth of his concerto for the bassoon, which he probably wrote between 1842 and 1845. The last compo-

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sition on our programme is one of Mozart’s last symphonies, the K. 543 piece in E flat major. It was completed in June 1788, a time of considerable trouble and hardship in the life of the composer — nothing of which can be heard in the work, which is infused with serenity and joie de vivre.

Gábor Takács-Nagy The founder, and for many years the leader, of the world-famous Takács String Quartet, Gábor Takács-Nagy began to conduct at the turn of the millennium, at the zenith of a steeply rising career as a violinist and chamber musician. He has been the first guest conductor of the BFO since 2012. It is in this capacity that he conducts the orchestra’s Haydn-Mozart series.

LOCATELLI TELEMANN LECLAIR Handel COHEN RICHTER BERG T’Hooft

November 03-04 Academy of Music 03rd Monday 7:45 pm Széll 04th Tuesday 7:45 pm Ormándy

Pietro Antonio Locatelli: Il Pianto d’Arianna, Op. 7, no. 6 Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto for Recorder and Flute in E minor, TWV 52:e1 Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 10, no. 3 George Frideric Handel: Apollo and Daphne Anna Lucia Richter (soprano) Nathan Berg (baritone) Stephanie-Marie Degand (violin) Anneke Boeke (recorder) conductor: Jonathan Cohen Baroque gestures: Sigrid T’Hooft

Legend has it that Jean-Marie Leclair and Pietro Locatelli met in the Kassel court and gave a concert together in 1728. The witness, of questionable reliability, to whom posterity owes the account was Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, an organist. Among other things, we are informed that Locatelli kept grimacing during the performance and occasionally shouted out, “Ah! What do you say to that?” After the concert, the court jester said that “both of them ran like rabbits up and down the violin, [Leclair] playing like an angel, [Locatelli] like a devil.” It is now impossible to tell whether Lustig’s recollections were accurate.

In contrast it is a fact that the Baroque ensemble of the Festival Orchestra will now perform some impressive works by the star composers of the first half of the 18th century: the Italian Locatelli (a virtuoso of the violin and the flute) and the French Leclair (a superb violinist), both disciples of Corelli, as well as Telemann. Each left an oeuvre of considerable importance to posterity. They also shared the fate of a fading renown after their death, until the growing interest in early music brought them back to the limelight.

Handel’s cantata, the second part of the programme, is a less 32

frequently played part of a generally well-known oeuvre. It belongs to the Italian period of the young composer, who wrote it in Naples in 1708. It

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is one of the last cantatas from Italy. Belgian choreographer-director Sigrid Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hooft, a leading expert on Baroque gestures who has previously worked with the BFO, will contribute to the production. She teaches contemporary stage gestures to the artists performing the cantata, which is not only a source of interest, but also helps the audience towards a more complete appreciation of the music and its moods.

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Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (Mikhail Pletnev’s arrangement) Alexander Glazunov: The Seasons, Op. 67 Seong-Jin Cho (piano) conductor: Mikhail Pletnev

November 20-21-22 Academy of Music 20th Thursday 7:45 pm Ormándy 21st Friday 7:45 pm Doráti A 22nd Saturday 3:30 pm Doráti B

CHOPIN GLAZUNOV PLETNeV CHO

In the autumn of 2013, world-famous pianist Mikhail Pletnev’s concert with the BFO in the Main Hall of the Academy of Music was a great success. He will now appear as a conductor of the orchestra, as well as a composer. In addition to his own compositions, arrangements form an important part of his oeuvre. The re-orchestrated piece he will now present as conductor has been, along with its composer, of particular significance to his career as a pianist. The work in question is Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor. Its premiere was on 11 October 1830, with the composer playing the piano and Carlo Soliva conducting. Performed to a capacity audience, the piece was acknowledged, in the words of the contemporary press, with “deafening applause”. The report stated, “The discerning audience considers the E minor concerto one of the most majestic of all compositions,” and we probably cannot but agree.

Hungarian concertgoers can seldom hear Alexander Glazunov’s works. The composer, who was born in Saint Petersburg in 1865, never had much of a following in Hungary, though he was once, particularly around 1880–1890, favoured and performed around the world, with Stravinsky being one of his music’s enthusiasts. A student of Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov, he was a keen and very successful conductor of the eight symphonies he composed, performing all over Europe. His pieces for ballet are kept in the repertoire of many opera houses. Though originally not intended for theatrical use, “The Seasons” also became popular on the ballet stage and as the title would suggest, the ballet has four movements. Its choreographer, Marius Petipa, was a seminal master of classical Russian ballet.

FAURÉ November BERLIOZ 27-29-30 Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók RAVEL National Concert Hall 27th Thursday 7:45 pm Széll DEBUSSY 29th Saturday 7:45 pm Solti TICCIATI + Midnight Music 11:30 pm ANTONACCI 30th Sunday 3:30 pm Reiner

Gabriel Fauré: Pelléas and Mélisande Hector Berlioz: La mort de Cléopâtre Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales Claude Debussy: La mer Anna Caterina Antonacci (mezzo-soprano) conductor: Robin Ticciati

This programme features French music spanning across eight decades. The oldest piece is the young Berlioz’s La mort de Cléopâtre (The Death of Cleopatra), a solo cantata on the poem of Pierre-Ange Vieillard, written in 1829, at around the same time as the Symphonie Fantastique. Called a scène lyrique by its composer, the piece earned him the very coveted Prix de Rome. The other pieces on the programme are the products of a short period of musical history. The incidental music for the 1898 London production of Pelléas and Melisande, Maurice Maeterlinck’s drama, was composed by Gabriel Fauré. It attests to the significance of the play for Maeterlinck’s contemporaries that it went on to inspire Schoenberg and Sibelius, while Debussy turned it into an opera. Fauré himself later used the incidental music in a four-movement suite for concert hall performance.

“The title ‘Valses nobles et sentimentales’ (Noble and Sentimental Waltzes) sufficiently indicates my intention of composing a series of waltzes in imitation of Schubert. ... [They] were first performed amid protestations and boos at a concert... in which the names of the composers were not revealed. The audience voted on the probable authorship of each piece. The authorship of my piece was recognized — by a slight majority,” wrote Ravel in an autobiographical sketch. The concert in question took place on 9 May 1911, in Paris. The orchestral version was written a year later, in 1912.

It was also in Paris, in October 1905, three years after the premiere of his opera Pelléas and Mélisande, that Debussy’s La mer (The Sea) was first performed. What Debussy called a set of symphonic sketches, and what is now considered a masterpiece of 20th-century music, owes its belated admittance to orchestral repertoire to Toscanini.

Rob i n T i c c i a t i

MESSIAEN FISCHER MURARO HARtMANNCLAVERIE

December 12-13-14 Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 12th Friday 7:45 pm Doráti 13th Saturday 7:45 pm Solti 14th Sunday 3:30 pm Reiner

Olivier Messiaen: Turangalílá Symphony Valérie Hartmann-Claverie (ondes Martenot) Roger Muraro (piano) conductor: Iván Fischer

“Turangalílá is a Sanskrit word, very rich in meanings. Lílá lit-

erally means a game, but game in the sense of divine workings in the cosmos, the game of creation, destruction and reconstruction, the game of life and death. Lílá is also Love. Turanga is time that flies like a galloping horse, time that runs out like sand from an hourglass. Turanga is movement and rhythm. Hence Turangalílá means altogether: song of love, hymn to joy, time, movement, rhythm, life and death,” writes the composer about the title of what he thinks is “a vast polyphony of time, of rhythm”. The sequence of ten movements does not have a linear plot; instead, it is a succession of surrealistic meditations on love and death. The work has three “protagonists”: the symphonic orchestra, the solo piano and the ondes Martenot. The orchestra is the scene for the most important musical events, which are coloured by the improvisatory, birdsong-like effects of the piano. The ondes Martenot, a special electronic instrument invented by Maurice Martenot in 1929, participates in the proceedings like a divine figure thanks to its extraordinary range of voice, continuous glissando, and a tone that cuts through the largest orchestras, yet has human characteristics. The monumental symphony, which lasts almost 90 minutes and requires a vast ensemble, was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky and his orche stra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (They also commissioned Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra a year earlier.) The piece, which was written between 1946 and 1948, was premiered in December 1949 Boston yet not by Koussevitzky, but by a young colleague, Leonard Bernstein.

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CHRISTMAS SURPRISE CONCERT FISCHER

December 26-27

Christmas Surprise Concert conductor: Iván Fischer

Budapest Congress Centre 26th Friday 7:45 pm Széll 27th Saturday 7:45 pm Solti

The Festival Orchestra launched its surprise concert series ten

years ago and the format has been successful ever since. The Italian Institute, which hosted the first “experimental” concert, was filled to capacity, showing that a great many people believed innovative conductor Iván Fischer would offer an adventure worth taking. A quick reminder of the surprises Iván Fischer has served up to the audiences of former concerts: Richard Strauss’ wonderful The Legend of Joseph; Kabalevsky’s Violin Concerto, featuring a 12-year-old Júlia Pusker; Richard Strauss’ arias and lieder, sung by American soprano Christine Brewer; Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s trumpet concerto, with Norwegian virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger playing the solo; The Silver Lake, Kurt Weill’s gripping opera that is all but unknown in Hungary; an orchestral arrangement of a Brahms piano concerto by Schoenberg; Mozart’s K. 488 piano concerto, performed by the 92-year-old Lívia Rév, who lives in France; presentation of works by Salieri, who in Hungary is practically known only from Mozart-related legends; Mozart’s K. 453 piano concerto in a performance by Menahem Pressler; and the Hungarian premiere of Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus, a piece written for birds and orchestra. György Pauk and world-famous pianist Alfred Brendel also bade farewell to the Budapest audience at a BFO surprise concert. Further, it was on the occasion of a surprise concert that, during Stravinsky’s Tango, two members of the orchestra took to the floor, presenting a tango that gave Argentine professionals a run for their money. The audience of another surprise programme saw the dancer interpreting Ravel’s Bolero tie herself, in the course of her performance, to the conducting Fischer, making the production truly unique.

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Pinchas Zukerman

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute – overture Violin Concerto in A major, K. 219 Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – incidental music Pinchas Zukerman (violin) Anna Lucia Richter (soprano) Barbara Kozelj (mezzo-soprano) Pro Musica Girls’ Choir (artis tic director: Dénes Szabó) conductor: Iván Fischer

January 29-30-31 Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 29th Thursday 7:45 pm Solti 30th Friday 7:45 pm Doráti 31st Saturday 3:30 pm Reiner + Midnight Music 11:30 pm

MOZART MENDELSSOHN FISCHER ZUKERMAN RICHTER KOZELJ Pro Musica Girls’ Choir

Mozart and Mendelssohn. When the routes of wunderkinder intersect ... The first part of the concert is dedicated to Mozart. He wrote The Magic Flute in 1791, shortly before his death, and he himself conducted it at its 30 September premiere at the Theater auf der Wieden. Its overture eventually found its way into concert halls as well. The young Mozart, who was a splendid violinist, probably familiarized himself with the Italian violin concertos during his visits to Italy. While in Paris, he absorbed the influence of the French style of concerto, particularly the manner of the Italian-born G. B. Viotti. It was also under these influences that the 19-year-old composer wrote five violin concertos in a single year, in 1775. The most popular of these is probably the one in A major, now on the programme, which has received the sobriquet “Turkish”, because contemporaries felt one its episodes was oriental in mood.

Without any special occasion in mind, the 17-year-old Mendelssohn wrote an orchestral overture for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The piece brought overnight fame to a composer who, despite his age, was already a seasoned master with a series of brilliant works under his belt. Sixteen years later, Prussian king Frederick William IV commissioned him to write incidental music for Shakespeare’s drama, and Mendelssohn completed it in 1842 - 43. The piece, which was premiered in Potsdam in October 1843, in the presence of the court and select guests, went on to be “compulsory” for productions of the play for a long time, and its suite version became a concert hall sensation. Our concert presents the complete incidental music.

STRAVINSKYMARAThON FISCHER

February 07

artistic director: Iván Fischer

Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall Palace of Arts, Festival Theatre Stravinsky Marathon Eleven concerts From 10:30 am till 10 pm

With a type of concert formerly unknown in Hungary, the BFO and the Palace of Arts established a new tradition in 2008. Friends, lovers, enthusiasts, fans, slaves, fanatics and buffs of a given composer consider it a red-letter day when they can all revel in the art of the master, the day when everyone can find a programme to their liking. These marathons are now routinely attended by a large audience; including a sizeable portion of those gluttons who sit through all the concerts in the series. The hero of the 2015 marathon is Igor Stravinsky. The detailed schedule of the day will be announced in the autumn of 2014, so make sure to visit BFO’s homepage regularly. on 29 May 1913 the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris presented the composer’s ballet, The Rite of Spring and the audience took part in what has probably been the greatest scandal in music history, involving much shouting, abusive language, the losing of tempers and the boxing of ears. (Interestingly, two months earlier, almost to the day, ears were also boxed in a Viennese concert hall, at one of Arnold Schoenberg’s premieres.) While styles and schools came and went, luminaries rose and fell, Stravinsky has remained a fixed star in the heavens of music, thanks in no small part to his ability to constantly renew his art throughout a long career. His Russian style first gave way to a neo-classicist period, before his interest turned to ever newer techniques. Marked by an extraordinary variety of styles and genres, his oeuvre has both attained the status of a classic and retained its novelty and fascination. 44

A joint event of the BFO and the Palace of Arts

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MENDELSSOHN February KURTÁG 19-20-22 Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók SCHUMANN National Concert Hall 7:45 pm Solti TAKÁCS-NAGY 19th Thursday 20th Friday 7:45 pm Doráti KURTÁG 22nd Sunday 3:30 pm Reiner

Felix Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27 György Kurtág: Dialogues for Orchestra (arrangement by Olivier Cuendet) Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 György Kurtág Jr (synthesizer) conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

How does a contemporary work “behave” in a historic environment? Can it fit in among the compositions of former ages? And does the new work influence our appreciation of well-known pieces of the repertoire? These are some of the questions that the programme of this evening may prompt. The context for Kurtág’s music will be provided by “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage”, an overture Mendelssohn wrote in 1832 inspired by a Goethe poem, and by Schumann’s Symphony No. 4. The orchestral version of Kurtág’s Zwiegespräche (Dialogues) was prepared by Olivier Cuendet. “For me, Kurtág’s music is the big synthesis. Kurtág is like Bach, who once created the synthesis of the diatonic and the chromatic. Kurtág helps us to learn to rediscover old things. He can relate very complex things with very simple devices,” said the Swiss conductor in an interview. Of the work now on the programme, Cuendet said: “Zwiegespräche is the joint composition of the two Kurtágs, of father and son, for synthesizer and string quartet, which was performed by the Keller and Arditti string quartets on a few occasions. With the permission of György Kurtág, I made an orchestral arrangement of ‘Games’, which I toured with my ensemble, and at the Budapest stop of the tour we also performed, with György Kurtág, Jr, one or two movements from this work. Afterwards, they both asked me to prepare the orchestral arrangement for the whole work, for Gábor Takács-Nagy.”

Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 is the last work on the programme. The first version of the piece was written in 1841, for the birthday of the composer’s wife, Clara Schumann and the final version, completed in 1851, was substantially revised and re-orchestrated by the composer.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute, K. 620 Mandy Fredrich (The Queen of the Night) Nuria Rial (Pamina) Bernard Richter (Tamino) Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Papageno) conductor and director: Iván Fischer

March 07-09-11

MOZART FISCHER

Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 07th Saturday 7 pm Doráti B 09th Monday 7 pm Ormándy 11th Wednesday 7 pm Széll

“The musical performance on its own terms was extraordinary. Over the last 30 years under Mr Fischer, the Budapest Festival Orchestra has become one of the most admired ensembles on the international scene, as was demonstrated on Sunday by this supple, glowing and transparent performance of Figaro,” wrote critic for The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini, about the BFO’s 2013 New York performance. He believed this Figaro, like Don Giovanni two years earlier, was “a highlight ... of the opera season in New York.” A staged performance of The Magic Flute in the early 1990s was the first opera production by the Budapest Festival Orchestra to generate attention and excitement. Now after internationally successful performances of the three Da Ponte operas, Iván Fischer and the orchestra return to Mozart’s last work for the stage.

Quite a lot is known about the origin and first production of The Magic Flute, and our source is Mozart himself. In the autumn of 1791, he wrote loving letters to his ailing wife, who was seeking remedy in Baden. In a letter he describes how at one of the performances he played a prank on Emmanuel Schikaneder, director of the Theater auf der Wieden (the theatre of the premiere) who wrote the libretto and played Papageno. From another, we learn about the enthusiastic praise he received from Antonio Salieri, whom he invited to one of the first performances, along with the charming Miss Cavalieri. The opera premiered on 30 September 1791 and Mozart died only a few months later never knowing that over two hundred years later the work would still be so popular and enjoyed by audiences around the world. A joint event of the BFO and the Palace of Arts

LANG MACKEY BELLA BOULEZ RÁCZ SZABÓ KÁROLYI

April 10

David Lang: These Broken Wings

Budapest Music Center 10th Friday 7:45 pm + Midnight Music 11:30 pm

Máté Bella: Chuang Tzu’s Dream

Steven Mackey: Suite Slide

Pierre Boulez: Le marteau sans maître Péter Szabó (cello) Katalin Károlyi (alt) conductor: Zoltán Rácz

The contemporary music programme of the BFO now features a “living legend” of 20th-century composition, Pierre Boulez, two American artists in their fifties, and a young Hungarian composer. Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître (The Hammer without a Master) was first presented at the 29th Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in Baden-Baden, in 1955. Hungarian Máté Bella could be the grandson of Boulez, who was born in 1925, and his Chuang Tzu’s Dream is in fact related to the work of the French composer. “The work’s set of tones,” he writes, “is the result of the different transpositions of six chords, each comprising six notes. The chords are closely related to Pierre Boulez’s Dérive 1 (1984), a piece written for six instruments. From the chords of the Boulez piece – which also use six of the twelve notes – I created their shadows/inversions.” The piece is a “salute to Chuang Tzu, a Chinese philosopher (4th century BC). One of the oldest Chinese stories related to dreaming is Chuang Tzu’s, who saw himself as a butterfly in a dream, and upon waking, he couldn’t decide whether he had dreamt being a butterfly, or he was a butterfly dreaming that it was Chuang Tzu.” The music of David Lang (b. 1957) draws on modernism, minimalism and rock and his style is often described as post-minimalistic. He wrote These Broken Wings in 2010, for a Chicago ensemble, the “eighth blackbird”.

Steven Mackey was born in 1956, and he started his career as a rock musician. Considered a leading composer of his generation, he is also active as a performer. He based Slide, a 2012 suite for tenor, electric guitar and chamber orchestra, on his 2009 work for the theatre.

Pierre Boulez

HaNDEL BACH CORELLI VIVALDI TELEMANN COHEN SABATA T’Hooft

April 10-11-12 Academy of Music 10th Friday 11:30 pm + Midnight Music 11th Saturday 7:45 pm Ormándy 12th Sunday 3:30 pm Széll

George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 4 in F major, Op. 3 Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor, BWV 1060 Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major, Op. 6 Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in C major, RV 117 Amor hai vinto, RV 683 Georg Philipp Telemann: Violin Concerto in A major (“The Frogs”), TWV 51:A4 Antonio Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684 Xavier Sabata (male alto) Bojan Čičić (violin) conductor: Jonathan Cohen Baroque gestures: Sigrid T’Hooft

Telemann probably wrote the violin concerto nicknamed “The Frogs” (Die Relinge) between 1720 and 1723. The piece does deliver on its promise, the strings conjuring up a lake full of amphibians in the first and second movements. Though Arcangelo Corelli was one of the greatest violin virtuosos of his age, as well as an influential composer and music educator, the oeuvre he left behind is not particularly voluminous. Many considered him their master, and his concerto grossi and chamber sonatas greatly influenced the development of the style of Baroque orchestral music. Our programme now includes the second piece from his Op. 6 series. Handel is also known to have used Corelli’s Op. 6 series, which was known and loved in London at the time, as a model for his own collection of six concerto grossi (Op. 3) and this concert will feature the fourth concerto grosso. Despite his busy schedule from 1729, Bach gave weekly concerts

as the head of the Collegium Musicum at Café Zimmermann and on these occasions, he “recycled” his concertos, performing them in a variety of versions. The version written for two harpsichords, marked as No. 1060 in Bach’s own catalogue, provided the basis for the reconstruction of the oboe-violin version performed in this concert.

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Thanks to the increasing interest in early music in the past few decades, the concerto – the form in which Vivaldi composed hundreds of pieces – is no longer the only genre for which his oeuvre is known. Beside a large number of operas and oratorios, the “Red Priest” wrote more than three dozen cantatas, two of which can be heard in this concert. In addition the popular Concerto in C major will be performed. Again this concert will feature the Baroque gestures that distinguished 18th-century performance practices.

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Johan Wagenaar: Cyrano de Bergerac – overture Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

May 01-02 Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 01st Friday 7:45 pm Doráti 02nd Saturday 7:45 pm Solti

WAGENAAR BEETHOVEN SHOSTAKOVICH VAN ZWEDEN FRAY

David Fray (piano) conductor: Jaap van Zweden

The Dutch Johan Wagenaar (1862–1941) was a popular, frequently played composer of the early 20th century. While his 1906 Saul and David, a tone poem written for the 300th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, is considered his most ambitious work, it was the 1905 overture Cyrano de Bergerac, that earned him the greatest success. Somewhat reminiscent of Richard Strauss’ symphonic poems, the piece evokes both the heroic and poetic traits in the character of Rostand’s hero. The piano concerto in B flat major Op. 19 is now commonly referred to as Beethoven’s second, though the numbering is misleading, because the composer himself stated that it was written in 1794–95. Thus, it was his first piece in the genre, apart from an attempt made a few years earlier, of which only the piano part has survived. The significance of this work is greatly enhanced because it was performed at Beethoven’s debut before a Viennese audience in March 1795, a performance that established his renown as a piano virtuoso. Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 5 in D minor in 1937 and the premiere took place that November at a concert of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by a young Yevgeny Mravinsky. The performance received a standing ovation that lasted for more than half an hour and this is notable because it reflects both the aesthetic qualities of the pieces and support for Shostakovich at a time when he had fallen out of favour with the regime, and his persecution was overseen by Stalin himself. Following the attack on him in Pravda, his Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was taken off the repertoire, and he withdrew his Symphony No. 4 before its premiere. He wrote the 5th instead, in a style and tone that opened a new phase in his oeuvre.

BRAHMS FISCHER

May 15-16-17 Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall 15th Friday 7:45 pm Doráti 16th Saturday 7:45 pm Solti 17th Sunday 3:30 pm Reiner

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 conductor: Iván Fischer

Brahms, the composer of symphonies, is central to the BFO’s season. We presented the third and fourth symphonies in September, and now, at the end of the season, Iván Fischer and the orchestra round off their Brahms cycle with the first and the second.

Brahms was merely twenty when he tried his hand at the genre of symphony and he set the first drafts to paper in 1854, but soon got stuck. He continued it in 1862, when he almost completed the first movement, but then he put it aside, and his symphony-writing career saw another long hiatus. The first symphony took fifteen years to complete. One reason for the long delay was his fear of the towering presence of Beethoven’s oeuvre, of his own first being taken for Beethoven’s tenth (something which, in fact, was often brought up against him). The work had its premiere in November 1876, in Leipzig. The lukewarm reception of Symphony No. 1 notwithstanding, Brahms set to work on the second almost immediately, apparently overcoming his inhibitions about the genre. “The new symphony is so melancholy that you will not be able to bear it. I have never written anything so sad, and the score must come out in mourning,” wrote Brahms to his publisher, Fritz Simrock, shortly before its premiere on 30 December 1877. Simrock had nothing to worry about, since the composer wrote in jest. The piece he composed in Pörtschach, the idyllic resort town by Wörthersee, is one of the sunniest in his oeuvre. Thanks to what was a light tone by Brahmsian standards, it immediately became a great success. Theodor Billroth, a Viennese surgeon friend, described its pastoral mood as “all rippling streams, blue sky, sunshine, and cool green shadows”.

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ROSSINI MENDELSSOHN SUGÁR ORBÁN Szefcsik

June 06 Keszthely, Festetics Palace 06th Saturday 7 pm

Gioacchino Rossini: String Sonata No. 5 in E flat major Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 9 in C minor Rezső Sugár: Divertimento György Orbán: Udvari táncok Artistic director: Zsolt Szefcsik

This season, our castle concert will be held in the banquet hall of the beautiful palace in Keszthely, and will include a programme be fitting the locale. The first part of the concert features the works of two “wunderkinds.” Rossini, who was 12 in 1804, composed six melodic and virtuoso sonatas of a truly Italian flavour for an unusual ensemble: two violins, a cello and a double bass. The sonatas came out in print only in the middle of the last century, but have since become the bravura pieces of chamber orchestras. Like these sonatas, Mendelssohn’s string symphonies written when he was a child also guarantee success for chamber ensembles. The C minor piece was written in the spring of 1823, when Mendelssohn was only 14. Rather than the formal ideals of his immediate predecessors, the masters of Vienesse Classicism, the composer’s models for this exceptionally impulsive piece are to be sought among the by then antiquated, old symphonies of a German tradition, that of C- Ph. E. Bach and Georg Benda.

In the second part of the concert we present a 20 th and a 21st-

century piece. Rezső Sugár wrote his Divertimento in 1948. The works of this disciple of Kodály are seldom heard in concert halls nowadays, though they are always marked by the distinctive Hungarian colouring that follows Kodály’s tradition and is characteristic of other 20 th-century composers in this country. The last piece on our programme, György Orbán’s Udvari táncok (Courtly Dances) was written very recently, in 2011. The five-movement suite, writes the composer, is based on the courtly music of the 17th century, with the introduction of slight anachronisms.

F e s t e t i c s P a l a c e , K e s z t h e ly

HAYDN WEBER MOZART TAKÁCS-NAGY CSALLÓ

June 11-12-13-14 Academy of Music 11th Thursday 7:45 pm Széll 12th Friday 7:45 pm Ormándy 13th Saturday 3:30 pm Reiner A 14th Sunday 3:30 pm Reiner B

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor (“Mourning”), Hob. I:39 Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, op. 74 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: German Dances, K. 509 Symphony No. 28 in C major, K. 200 Roland Csalló (clarinet) conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

It is with one of Haydn’s most frequently played “Sturm und Drang” symphonies that this concert of the Haydn-Mozart series begins. Composed in 1771, it received the “Mourning Symphony” soubriquet only later, in the 19 th or 20 th century. Imbued with passion and pathos, it does indeed have a “Sturm und Drang” mood.

At the beginning of his career, Weber wrote a number of concertos for a variety of instruments and he enriched the then not-very-extensive literature for the clarinet with three concertos. Weber’s clarinet concerto Op. 26 was first performed in the spring of 1811 by the composer’s close friend, Heinrich Joseph Baermann. Upon seeing its great success, Maxi milian I (Maximilian Joseph) of Bavaria commissioned two more concertos from the composer, who immediately complied and in November, Baermann performed the second concerto, in what Weber called in his journal a “divine performance”. Mozart composed his six German Dances (K. 509) in February 1787, for a lavish ball in Prague, probably for a commission from Count Pachta. These pieces are different from the dance pieces of his Salzburg period both in orchestration and character because they are less stylised and, as the circumstances of their origin indicate, are genuine dance music. Two years separate the opening and closing pieces of this

concert. Mozart’s Symphony in C Major was written when he was 17 years old and it is grander and more ambitious than the other symphonies he wrote in Salzburg at this time. He added a minuet to the three movements of the Italian overture and he closed each of the four movements with a significant coda.

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Sándor Végh Competition The biennial Sándor Végh competition is an opportunity for current members of the orchestra to present themselves as soloists with the orchestra and the winners are given the chance to feature in the Haydn-Mozart Plus series.

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young BFO With a unique programme of musical education, the Budapest Festival Orchestra seeks to bring the treasures of classical music to children, families and young adults. For the youngest, we offer captivating discoveries of instruments and short melodies, while complete operas and symphonies are presented to older age groups. We want everyone to experience the inspiration music can provide. Well-known and loved concert formats like the Cocoa Concerts will be continued in the 2014-15 season, and we have added a specially developed concert for children with autism. We want to deepen our cooperation with partner schools and extend the programmes we offer to them. Since all rehearsals of the orchestra are broadcast live, students do not even need to leave their schools to be present at a rehearsal—the only thing required is access to the internet. Schools are welcome to apply for participation in our partner schools programme (send your query to zenepedagogia@ bfz.hu). Let our diverse education package introduce children to instruments, the richness of musical history, and the openness and creativity of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. The programmes on offer include Choose Your Instrument!, rehearsal visits, BFO Reaches Out!, and children’s opera. Following its season-opening performance, Kurt Weill’s opera Der Jasager (which explores the challenges of making decisions) will go on Hungarian tour and will be presented in several partner schools. At the events of BFO Reaches Out!, the Orchestra’s artists hold mini master classes and impromptu concerts in non-metropolitan areas. The programme even made a successful debut outside of Hungary, when it was presented in Shanghai during the spring tour of China. For older teenagers, we again announce our film competition, See What You Hear!, which links musical and cinematic creativity. Meanwhile, the unforgettable concerts of the Midnight Music series continue to await those who live at night. Our young fans will be interested in our flexible season ticket, with concerts chosen by the holder, ensuring the best programme schedule for a season. Make sure you become familiar with the rich selection of programmes that the Budapest Festival Orchestra has to offer. 64

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The concert that starts at 6:30 pm will feature an autism-friendly format and environment. (Our professional partner is the Cseperedő Foundation.)

CocoaConcerts Age 5–12

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BFO Rehearsal Hall Sunday 2:30 pm + 4:30 pm

There are quite a few among the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s adult season ticket holders who fell in love with live classical music at cocoa concerts in the past. Naturally, their children now form the regular core of the audience of our cocoa concerts. With events of an intimate atmosphere, held on weekend afternoons, the programme has offered children an introduction to the world of music for two decades. The new season is no different. Iván Fischer and the orchestra welcome children aged 5 to 12 — and of course their parents and grandparents. For the first time, the BFO will now also offer a cocoa concert for children with autism. These informal, interactive sessions allow Iván Fischer and members of the orchestra to introduce children to the secrets of classical music, and the concerts end with a hot cup of the cocoa that lends its name to these events.

Cocoa season ticket For those really committed concertgoers, this year we have introduced a family version of the cocoa concert season ticket. For details see page 111.

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Age 6–8 Choose Your Instrument! The BFO recommends this event for young children who are interested in music, but have not chosen their instrument yet. At “Choose Your Instrument!” events, the musicians of the orchestra visit schools and present their instruments in short concerts, after which the children have a chance to try them out, with instructions from their music teachers and the musicians.

Age 8–18 The BFO Reaches Out! programme is about making children living in non-metropolitan areas of Hungary interested in a career in music. The short courses presented by the musicians of the Festival Orchestra in various towns also provide the orchestra with an opportunity to discover young talents in the country. The programme is prepared in cooperation with the National Alliance of Hungarian Music Schools, the local philharmonic societies, conservatoires and music schools. The programme can be complemented with short concerts in public spaces and buildings, schools and care homes. The project takes into consideration the BFO’s plans for the season.

Age 8–18 Open rehearsal The BFO does not always have to do the visiting; chil-

dren may also visit the orchestra. The open rehearsals provide students of partner schools with a first-hand experience of how an orchestra works. The visitors can see the secrets of the trade and learn how a production is realised. Children can visit the BFO’s rehearsal hall by appointment and from our experience, children and young people love these visits. They are more than willing to sit quietly through a rehearsal, then go and make enthusiastic posts on Facebook.

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Age 8–18 Children’s Opera The Budapest Festival Orchestra has often created opera productions for children with the participation of children, both as singers and musicians. The first such production was of Hans Krása’s Brundibár, which was even revived in the autumn of 2013. In the autumn of 2012, the Festival Orchestra presented Benjamin Britten’s opera for children Noye’s Fludde, with the participation of nearly a hundred young musicians and singers. Over the season, we performed the piece in a number of schools in Budapest and elsewhere, bringing the joy of joint music making to almost 4500 schoolchildren. The BFO’s latest production is Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “school opera” He Said Yes which will begin touring in September 2014.

Age 14–18 See What You Hear! Film Competition In the 2014–2015 season, the Festival Orchestra will again announce a competition for secondary school children, both groups and individuals, to make a film using Schumann’s Symphony No. 4. The aim is to create a film that mirrors the feelings and impulses that the music generates in the listener. There are no restrictions on genre: short features, documentaries and animation are all equally welcome. We will present the best films at a gala featuring the Festival Orchestra in the Palace of Arts. Award winners can expect valuable prizes such as accompanying the orchestra on Hungarian and international tours, as well as concert tickets.

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Millenáris Park – Teátrum Saturday, 11:30 pm

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Millenáris Park – Teátrum Saturday 11:30 pm

January 31 April 10

Millenáris Park – Teátrum Friday, 11:30 pm

Midnight Music: Classical Music for Night Owls! “Honestly, it seemed like only five minutes had passed! People gazed around in astonishment as they tried to pull themselves together. The concert was suddenly over. As my watch informed me, what has passed took not five minutes, but the scheduled one hour—and still, I was blinking like the others. Classical music is cool, and if you consider only the Midnight Music series, the Budapest Festival Orchestra has already proved as much on eight occasions. As you step inside, the auditorium seems like a merry day centre, with people sitting and lying all over the place, walking around and falling over one another. Some have instruments with them, others just lie around. Someone in the middle is waving to a friend to come over, but fails to catch his attention. Iván Fischer, who stands nearby, uses his microphone and repeats the call word for word. The friends unite, and the crowd laughs. They keep laughing, probably because they cannot believe a concert of classical music can really be this relaxed. Yet, it can, and this enchants and liberates everyone,” reads one enthusiastic account of a midnight concert by the Festival Orchestra. Since there are people who like to listen to music late in the evening, there are others, luckily, who like to play late at night. It is now a tradition that the Festival Orchestra plays some of its concert programme to a young audience after the “regular” concert, starting around midnight. To its midnight concerts, the BFO welcomes those who are open-minded, who love the arts and special experiences, and who don’t turn in early. These are no common concerts. They start very late; the tickets are for bean bags, not seats; you don’t have to dress up; and, in addition to music performed at the highest possible standard, there are short, accessible and amusing talks on the programme that facilitate the understanding of the music to be heard. Ride your bike to the event and get a 30% discount off the admission fee! 70

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BFO in the community

BFO in the Community

The Budapest Festival Orchestra is committed to creating great performances both in the concert hall and beyond so as many people as possible have the chance to experience live music from one of the world’s finest orchestras. The BFO creates exceptional education programmes and activities for future generations with Cocoa Concerts for children and Midnight Music for young adults but it is also careful not to neglect older audience members as it seeks to extend its reach into the community. The BFO aims to make its performances accessible and where feasible this means taking music directly to people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to enjoy its performances. In 2014 the BFO has developed a series of concerts for elderly people in nursing homes and earlier in the year the BFO invited a group of children from SOS Kinderdorf to attend one of its Cocoa Concerts. These activities were also replicated when the orchestra toured China with concerts in schools, an orphanage, a children’s hospital and a nursing home. Other community projects in Hungary include performing the liturgical works of Bach in churches – the type of venues where the music was originally performed – and a series of events in abandoned synagogues throughout Hungary. The project in abandoned synagogues is a new initiative for June 2014 and the BFO will work closely with Rabbi Slomó Köves, Executive Rabbi of EMIH Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation to create an event featuring 30 minutes of music followed by a lecture given about Jewish life in the specific local community. The BFO seeks to raise awareness of Jewish heritage and to educate local communities of the diversity that was once prevalent throughout Hungary. These events aim to enlighten, share and acknowledge Jewish history in an engaging and inclusive manner for all Hungarians. The Budapest Festival Orchestra plays an active role in the cultural life of Hungary and makes a relevant contribution to contem porary society. For more information on how to support the BFO in the Community projects please visit our website. 74

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Nikoletta Reinhardt, viola

Sunday Chamber Music

2014

BFO Rehearsal Hall 5 pm

György Ligeti: 6 Bagatelles Claude-Paul Taffanel: Wind Quintet in G minor Anett Jóföldi (flute) Roland Csalló (clarinet) Eva Neuszerova (oboe) Zoltán Szőke (horn) Dániel Tallián (bassoon)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento No. 15 in B flat major, K. 287 Tímea Iván, Noémi Molnár (violin) Barna Juhász (viola) Rita Sovány (cello) László Lévay (double bass) Dávid Bereczky, Zsombor Nagy (horn)

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, op. 76 Samuel Barber: String Quartet, op. 11 Violetta Eckhardt, Balázs Bujtor (violin) Gábor Sipos (viola) Rita Sovány (cello)

Luigi Boccherini: String Quintet in C major (“La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid”), Op. 30, no. 6 Anikó Mózes, Gabriella Nagy (violin) Csaba Gálfi (viola) György Kertész, Gabriella Liptai (cello)

LIGETI, TAFFANEL, HAYDN, BARBER September 21

MOZART, BOCCHERINI, MENDELSSOHN October 19

Felix Mendelssohn: String Octet in E flat major, Op. 20 Emese Gulyás, Antónia Bodó, Noémi Molnár, Anikó Mózes (violin) Csaba Gálfi, Ágnes Csoma (viola) György Kertész, Orsolya Mód (cello)

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2014

2015

BFO Rehearsal Hall 5 pm

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Trio in C minor István Kádár (violin) Kousay Mahdi (cello) Balázs Fülei (piano)

Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonata for Two Violins, Op. posth. János Pilz, Eszter Lesták Bedő (violin)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, DVOŘAK November 09

Antonín Dvořak: Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 Mária Gál-Tamási, Zsombor Gál-Tamási (violin) Miklós Bányai (viola) György Kertész (cello) Mária Kovalszki (piano)

YSAŸE, KONDO, BAX, DVOŘAK January 11

Kohei Kondo: Concerto for Violin and Percussion, Op. 110 Levente Szabó (violin) István Kurcsák, Boglárka Fábry, Gábor Pusztai (percussion)

Arnold Bax: Quintet for Harp and Strings János Pilz, Tibor Gátay (violin) Zoltán Fekete (viola) Kousay Mahdi (cello) Ágnes Polónyi (harp)

Antonín Dvořak: Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 Orsolya Mód (cello) Attila Martos (double bass) Victor Aviat, Eva Neuszerova (oboe) Ákos Ács, Roland Csalló (clarinet) Dániel Tallián, Sándor Patkós (bassoon) Zoltán Kovács (contrabassoon) Dávid Bereczky, András Szabó, Zsombor Nagy (horn)

2015

DEBUSSY, RAVEL, SHOSTAKOVICH March 15

BFO Rehearsal Hall 5 pm

2015

WEBER, MENDELSSOHN, WAGNER, STRAUSS, VERDI, PONCHIELLI April 26

BFO Rehearsal Hall 5 pm Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor Péter Szabó (cello) István Lajkó (piano)

Maurice Ravel: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in A minor Tamás Major (violin) Péter Szabó (cello) István Lajkó (piano)

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 Antónia Bodó, Noémi Molnár (violin) Ágnes Csoma (viola) Gabriella Liptai (cello) Zoltán Fejérvári (piano)

Carl Maria von Weber: Sonata for Violin and Piano in C major, Op. 10 Zsolt Szefcsik (violin) András Kemenes (piano)

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet in B minor, Op. 3 András Kemenes (piano) Zsolt Szefcsik (violin) Csaba Gálfi (viola) György Kertész (cello)

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Overture Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier – Waltz Suite Richard Wagner: Albumblatt für Frau Betty Schott Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata, Un ballo in maschera, Falstaff – excerpts Amilcare Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours (Gioconda) Gábor Selmeczi, Péter Kostyál (violin) Zoltán Fekete (viola) Attila Martos (double bass)

Ágnes Csoma, viola Zsófia Lezsák, violin

BFO around the world

tours 2014 August 25 — September 05 England, Switzerland, Spain, Italy Roman Trekel (baritone) conductor: Iván Fischer August 25th London, Royal Albert Hall 26th London, Royal Albert Hall 28th Locarno, Chiesa di San Francesco 30th San Sebastian, Kursaal 31st San Sebastian, Kursaal September 04th Torino, Teatro Regio di Torino 05th Milan, Teatro alla Scala October 07—14 Turkey, Slovakia, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain Christine Schäfer (soprano) Tassis Christoyannis (baritone) conductor: Iván Fischer 07th Istanbul, CRR 09th Bratislava, Reduta 10th Antwerp, De Singel 11th Heerlen, Limburgzaal 12th Utrecht, Vredenburg 14th Barcelona, Palau de la Música December 09—15 France, Germany Roger Muraro (piano) Valérie Hartmann-Claverie (ondes Martenot) conductor: Iván Fischer 09th Toulouse, Halle aux Grains 15th Dortmund, Konzerthaus

2015 January 18—26 USA Pinchas Zukerman (violin) Anna Lucia Richter (soprano) Barbara Kozelj (mezzo-soprano) conductor: Fischer Iván 18th New York, Avery Fisher Hall 20th West Palm Beach, Kravis Center 21st New York, Avery Fisher Hall 23rd North Bethesda, Strathmore Music Center 25th San Francisco, Davies Hall 26th San Francisco, Davies Hall March 23—31 United Arab Emirates conductor: Iván Fischer Gábor Takács-Nagy 23rd Abu Dhabi, Emirates Palace 27th Abu Dhabi, Emirates Palace 29th Abu Dhabi, Emirates Palace 31st Abu Dhabi, Emirates Palace May 20—29 England, Belgium, France, Austria, Check Republic Maria João Pires (piano) Anna Lucia Richter (soprano) Barbara Kozelj (mezzo-soprano) conductor: Fischer Iván 20th London, Royal Festival Hall 21st Bruges, Concertgebouw 22nd Bruges, Concertgebouw 23rd Bruges, Concertgebouw 26th Paris, Philharmonie de Paris 28th Vienna, Musikverein 29th Prague, Smetana Hall June 24 — July 02 Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil Alexander Toradze (piano) conductor: Iván Fischer June 24th Montevideo, Teatro Solis 26th Buenos Aires, Teatro Colón 27th Buenos Aires, Teatro Colón 29th São Paulo, Sala São Paulo 30th São Paulo, Sala São Paulo July 02nd Rio de Janeiro, Teatro Municipal

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Supporters and Sponsors

Why support the BFO

Why support the Budapest Festival Orchestra? At the Budapest Festival Orchestra we believe every performance should be a celebration because great performances have the power to inspire, enthuse and excite audiences. Together with our supporters we share a vision for outstanding concerts, engaging education activities and innovative community programmes because we believe music matters. Supporters of the Budapest Festival Orchestra ensure the sustainability of the orchestra and enable Iván Fischer to continue his valuable work in the community. Financial support allows the orchestra to plan for the future with confidence and to develop ambitious strategies to extend our reach even further. The Budapest Festival Orchestra is one of the world’s finest orchestras and its reputation for exceptional performances stems from its outstanding leadership, high standards and chamber music like attention to detail. In addition the musicians’ enthusiasm and sense of joie de vivre contributes to the excitement of every BFO performance. Why donate? Because every donation to the Budapest Festival Orchestra makes a genuine difference.

The Facts and Figures

. The Budapest Festival Orchestra generates 35 % of its revenue from ticket sales and special projects, 45 % from government funding and seeks to raise the remaining 20 % from donors and sponsors. At the end of the 2013-2014 Season the orchestra will have presented 70 concerts in Budapest, 8 concerts in the Hungarian countryside, 16 education activities (plus visits to schools and open rehearsals), 14 community projects and 42 concerts on international tour. In the 2014-2015 Season the will present 65 concerts in Budapest, 11 concerts in the Hungarian countryside, 12 education activities (plus visits to schools and open rehearsals), 14 community projects and 38 concerts on international tour.

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How to support the BFO

Where does the Budapest Festival Orchestra need support? In 2014 we have redesigned our Supporters’ Club to enable our donors to direct their support to the activities that are most important to them. We have developed five core funds that reflect the orchestra’s key needs and aspirations. Artistic Vision The Artistic Vision fund provides the foundation for every thing we do and serves to realise the artistic vision of Iván Fischer. The Budapest Festival Orchestra plays an active role in the cultural life of Hungary and aims to educate, inspire and challenge its audiences by creating performances that excite, engage and stimulate. Education & Emerging Artists For many years the BFO has presented Cocoa Concerts that have introduced generations of children to classical music and more recently the orchestra has developed with great success Midnight Music concerts for young adults. The BFO is also committed to nurturing and developing the careers of outstanding young musicians. Support for this fund creates opportunities to extend and enhance our work with young people.

How to support the BFO

BFO in the Community The BFO in the Community fund takes music to people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience the orchestra’s performances. This fund seeks to remove barriers to participation while simultaneously celebrating Hungary’s diverse and vibrant cultural heritage. BFO International Touring Each year the Budapest Festival Orchestra performs to sold out concert halls around the world and opportunities exist to support concerts, education and outreach programmes on tour. This fund supports the BFO in its role as a cultural ambassador. BFO Instruments & Equipment The cost of fine instruments is often prohibitive for many musicians so where possible the Budapest Festival Orchestra purchases instruments that can be loaned to musicians when they perform with the orchestra. This fund ensures the musicians have access to the best possible instruments and therefore has a profound impact on the sound quality of the orchestra. In addition this fund assists with the necessary funds to maintain the orchestra’s rehearsal hall and other essential equipment.

How to support the Budapest Festival Orchestra? Donations can be received via bank transfers, postal cheques or with credit card online at www.bfz.hu/donate.

Bank Transfers Budapest Festival Orchestra Foundation MKB BANK 10300002–10 61–2608–49020027 If you transfer your support in Euros, the bank account number is HU53 —1030 — 0002 —1061— 2608 — 4882— 0013 (The address of MKB is: H-1138 Budapest, Váci út 38. The SWIFT/BIC code is MKKBHUHB.) Postal cheques MKB BANK 10300002 —1061– 2608 — 49020027 90

For more information please contact us at szponzor@bfz.hu or call +36 1489 4333.

Supporters’ Club Benefits

All donors to the Budapest Festival Orchestra automatically become members of the Supporters’ Club and receive a range of benefits:

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The BFO e-newsletter . . . . . . . . . Access to interval receptions . . . . . . . at select Müpa concerts An invitation to the annual . . . . . . Patrons’ dinner A signed BFO CD . . . . . . Preferential treatment at the Season . . . . . . Opening Gala An opportunity to participate on supporters’ club tours with the orchestra (additional expenses)

. . . . . . An invitation to the annual . . . . . Benefactor’s dinner An invitation to attend two concert per annum with the Executive Director . . . An invitation to attend three concert per annum with the Executive Director . . An invitation to a post-performance . reception with the Music Director

Bronze: 20.000, Silver: 40.000, Gold: 80.000, Patron: 120.000, Benefactor (Silver): 250.000, Benefactor (Gold): 500.000, Diamond: 1.000.000, Platinum: 2.000.000, Star Platinum: 5.000.000

MEMBERS OF THE SUPPORTERS’ CLUB 2014–15

Star Platinum level Tamiko Soros Platinum level Stephen and Radka Benko . András Simor . Hubertus von Wulffen Diamond circle László and Petra Balássy M. . Gábor Bojár and Zsuzsanna Zanker dr. . John and Caroline Flüh Benefactor (Gold) level Zoltán Juhász . György Mosonyi and Ágnes Mosonyi . Ádám Vas dr. and Gabriella Zsámboki dr. Benefactor (Silver) level Ágnes Bíró . Péter Feldmájer dr. and

Erzsébet Bottka dr. . Nicholas Kabcenell and Orsolya Gudor . Kálmán, Szilasi, Sárközy Law Office . David Kirkby . Ruth Kirkby . György Markovich dr. and Anikó Sátai dr. . Miklós Marschall dr. . Endre and Andrea Mécs . Zsuzsanna Meinczinger-Krug and Armin Krug . Naturaqua Kft. . István Nyitrai . Ildikó Rosta dr. and Miklós Ferjentsik dr. . S. B. G. & K. Law Office / Katalin Szamosi dr. . László and Zsuzsa Steiner . Elek Straub and Andrea Rényi . Szecskay Attorney at Law . David and Petra Thompson . György Vámos dr.

Patrons’ level Árpád Balázs and Andrea Dénes . Péter Benke . Loret-

ta Bernabei-Reynolds . István Boros . Ferenc Bőcs and Ágnes Sárdy . Richard Brasher and Zsuzsanna Deák . Péter dr. and Ildikó Bródy . Valéria Csépe and Imre Molnár . Gabriella Csík dr. and Ferenc Hudecz dr. . László Dulin and Bence Dulin . Alajos Dornbach dr. and Zsófia Zachár . John Farago and Jeanne Martin . Tamás Felkai . Loránd Fráter dr. . György Gábor and Ágnes Bey . Gala Tours Kft. . Kinga Göncz and László Benedek . György Gyarmati dr. and Katalin Kuti . Pál György dr. and Ágnes Simon . Gábor Hanák and Ágnes Tatai . László Hancz and Éva Mester . Miklós Havass . Géza Homonnay . Ágnes Horváth dr. . Charles and Suzanne Huebner . György Kalmár . Katalin Kelemenné dr. Visky . Júlia Király . Mihály Kökény dr. and Mária Stiller . János Máthé dr. and

MEMBERS OF THE SUPPORTERS’ CLUB 2014–15

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MEMBERS OF THE SUPPORTERS’ CLUB 2014–15

Pál Gordon . Judit Görgényi and Miklós Dénes . Ákos Greiner . András Gyulai . Judit Halmos and Mihály Magyar . Tibor and Ilona Hargitai . Erzsébet Hegyes dr. and Gábor Szolnoki . József Holéci . György Hollay . Hajnalka and János Hornung . Márta Ihász and József Spollár . Éva Illyés . Gyula Jáger . Gáborné Kenesei . László Keviczky . Ádám Kis . Balázs Kis . András Klauber dr. and Éva Szigeti dr. . Júlia and Zsolt Komlósi . Katalin Komlósné Hlatky . László Kőszegi . Katalin Krámer . István Lantos dr. . Péter Lastofka and Katalin Patkós . János László dr. and Bernadette Péley . Gábor Lövenberg and Júlianna Radó dr. . János Márton . Katalin Mezei . Zoltán Mitsányi and Beáta Juvancz . János Moór and Wife . György Müller and Anna Bárd . Gábor Nagy . László Nagy . Erzsébet Németh . György Németh . László Nyirati . Gabriella Oberrecht dr. . László Paksy dr. . János Palotai és Anikó Soltész dr. . Edit Pappné Radics dr. . György Páris and Wife . Mihály Patyánik dr. . Istvánné Pék . Gáborné Pelle . Péterné Pernesz . György Petrucz . Tibor Piller . Éva Prágai . Erzsébet Radinkó dr. . Péter and Maya Révai . Zoltán Rimanóczy and Éva Csala . Judit Salgó . Éva Sitkei dr. . Róbert Sívó . Soltész + Soltész Kft. . Éva Somogyi and László Horváth . Ferenc Spohn . Klára Szabó . Sándor and Ágnes Szalai . Péter Szentesi dr. . Gyöngyi Tárnok . Theatrum Mundi Theatral and Literatural Agency . Kálmán Torma and Anna Halász . Mihály Tóth . Tamásné Tóth . Józsefné Tottzer . Andrásné Törő dr. . Éva Valér dr. . János Váradi . Mónika Váradi dr. and Gabriella Varjú . Ágnes Várkonyi and György Léderer . Gyula Varsányi . Józsefné Végh . János Vígh . Imre Vörös

Bronze level Iván Abonyi dr. and Wife . Zoltán Ábrahám . László

Ágostházi and Wife . Lívia Albáné Feldmájer .Zoltán Alföldy and Erika Szász . József Almási dr. . Józsefné Almási . Erika Amoser dr. . Apáthy István . Jánosné Árvay . Zsuzsanna Bácskai . Éva Baik . Tamás Balás . Ervinné Bánki . Iván Bánki . Éva Baranyi dr. . István Barna dr. and Zsuzsanna Szabó . Gusztáv Barsi dr. . Judit Benkő dr. . Istvánné Beer . József Berecz dr. . Gábor Berényi . Károlyné Béres . Péter Biksz . Erzsébet Birman . Aranka Bodor and Károly Liliom . Istvánné Bogdán . Éva Bogdány . Anna Bognár and Gábor Sugár . Béla Bognár . János Bonta and Katalin

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TICKETS

TICKETS and SEASON TICKETS

Season Tickets For the 2014-15 season, the Budapest Festival Orchestra offers 5 main season tickets, a student pass, and for the first time, both the traditional season ticket for the cocoa series and a family pass, so everyone can find something suited to their needs. The foldout with detailed information on season tickets can be found on the last page of the Season Brochure. Of course, all information is also available on our homepage: www.bfz.hu

Tickets

Premium I. II. III. IV.

Budapest Congress Centre Palace or Arts, Concert Hall

13.600 8.400 5.900 4.600 2.500 13.600 8.400 5.900 4.600 2.500

Palace or Arts, Festival Theater – 6.000 4.200 3.400 – 13.600 8.400 5.900 4.600 2.500 Academy of Music ! Haydn-Mozart Plus, Baroque Cocoa Concerts Castle Concert

10.500 6.300 4.400 3.500 2.500 2.500 5.000

Contemporary Evening Der Jasager, children’s opera

3.000

Midnight Music

1.500

Stravinsky Marathon Sunday Chamber Music

3.000 990 3.000

WAYS TO PURCHASE TICKETS AND SEASON TICKETS Season tickets (and tickets for performances not covered by a season ticket) can be purchased from 10 April. Single tickets for concerts covered by a season ticket can be purchased from June.

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Online You can purchase our season tickets and tickets online at www.bfz.hu, as well as at www.jegymester.hu.

TICKETS and SEASON TICKETS

In person at the Orchestra’s Offices

. The BFO’s offices (3rd District, 8 - 10 Polgár Street, Building B) are open 9 am - 5 pm, on 10 - 18 April, and 9:30 am - 3:30 pm thereafter. . We accept bank cards, SZÉP Cards, Sodexho Culture Vouchers, Ajándék/ Szabadidő (Gift/Leisure) Erzsébet Certificates and Ticket Culture & Sport Vouchers.

By mail, fax and email Address 1033 Budapest, 8-10 Polgár Street Fax +36 1 355 40 49 Email ticket@bfz.hu Orders are processed in order of arrival. Please provide accurate contact details in your order (phone number, email address), as well as alternatives to your ticket or season ticket requirement.

At ticket agencies You can also purchase our tickets and season tickets at the nationwide agency network of Jegymester.hu, as well as the orchestra’s special vendors: Palace of Arts, Booking Office (IX, 1 Komor Marcell St. Tel.: +36 1 555 3300; and VI, 28 Andrássy Avenue, Tel.: +36 1 555 3310 ) Rózsavölgyi Zeneműbolt (V, 5 Szervita Sq., Tel: +36 1 266 8337) Academy of Music, Booking Office (VI, 8 Liszt Ferenc Sq. Tel.: +36 1 321 0690) Ticket Express Bureau (VI, 10 Dalszínház St., Tel.: +36 30 303 09 99) Jegycenter Ticket Office (VI, 46 Paulay Ede St., Tel.: +36 1 322 0101)

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BFO Card You can also use your card when purchasing tickets for concerts not covered by the season ticket: Request a free card, which can be used for purchasing tickets only, and get a 25 % reduction from the price of the most expensive ticket for every fourth concert. If an amount is added to your account, you can use the card, within its period of validity, to purchase tickets for any concert, or even to get a season pass. Request your BFO Card on our webpage (www.bfz.hu/bfzkartya), or in person at the orchestra’s offices.

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Season Tickets DORÁTI A+b 9 Concerts

+ bonus (10th) concert: one of the Sunday Chamber Music series

2014 SEPTEMBER 13 Saturday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Fischer OCTOBER 3 Friday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Strauss: Four Last Songs Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Fischer, Schäfer, Christoyannis NOVEMBER 21 Friday 7.45 pm (A) NOVEMBER 22 Saturday 3.30 pm (B) Academy of Music Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (Mikhail Pletnev’s arrangement) Glazunov: The Seasons, Op. 67 Pletnev, Cho DECEMBER 12 Friday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Messiaen: Turangalílá Symphony Fischer, Muraro

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2015 JANUARY 30 Friday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Mozart: The Magic Flute – overture Mozart: Violin Concerto in A major, K. 219 Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – incidental music Fischer, Zukerman, Richter, Kozelj FEBRUARY 20 Friday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27 Kurtág: Dialogues for Orchestra Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor. Op. 120 Takács-Nagy, ifj. Kurtág MARCH 7 Saturday 7.00 pm Palace of Arts Mozart: The Magic Flute, K. 620 Fischer, Fredrich, Rial, Richter, Müller-Brachmann MAY 1 Friday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Wagenaar: Cyrano de Bergerac – overture Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 van Zweden, Fray MAY 15 Friday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 Fischer

Prices 30% discount compared to the single tickets’ prices Premium Category: 87.800 Ft I. Category: 55.000 Ft II. Category: 39.250 Ft III. Category: 31.050 Ft IV. Category: 17.850 Ft

SOLTI 9 Concerts

+ bonus (10th) concert: one of the Sunday Chamber Music series

2014 SEPTEMBER 12 Friday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Fischer OCTOBER 4 Saturday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Strauss: Four Last Songs Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Fischer, Schäfer, Christoyannis NOVEMBER 29 Saturday 7. 45pm Palace of Arts Gabriel Fauré: Pelléas and Mélisande Hector Berlioz: La mort de Cléopâtre Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales Claude Debussy: La mer Ticciati, Antonacci DECEMBER 13 Saturday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Messiaen: Turangalílá Symphony Fischer, Muraro DECEMBER 27 Saturday 7.45 pm Budapest Congress Centre Christmas Surprise Concert Fischer

2015 JANUARY 29 Thursday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Mozart: The Magic Flute – overture Mozart: Violin Concerto in A major, K. 219 Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – incidental music Fischer, Zukerman, Richter, Kozelj, Pro Musica Girls’ Choir FEBRUÁR 19 Thursday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27 Kurtág: Dialogues for Orchestra Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor. Op. 120 Takács-Nagy, ifj. Kurtág MAY 2 Saturday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Wagenaar: Cyrano de Bergerac – overture Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 van Zweden, Fray MAY 16 Saturday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 Fischer

Prices 30% discount compared to the single tickets’ prices Premium Category: 87.800 Ft I. Category: 55.000 Ft II. Category: 39.250 Ft III. Category: 31.050 Ft IV. Category: 17.850 Ft

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Season Tickets REINER A+b 7 Afternoon Concerts + bonus (8th) concert on June 13 or 14

2014 SEPTEMBER 14 Sunday 3.30 pm Palace of Arts Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Fischer OKTOBER 5 Sunday 3.30 pm Palace of Arts Strauss: Four Last Songs Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Fischer, Schäfer, Christoyannis NOVEMBER 30 Sunday 3.30 pm Palace of Arts Gabriel Fauré: Pelléas and Mélisande Hector Berlioz: La mort de Cléopâtre Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales Claude Debussy: La mer Ticciati, Antonacci DECEMBER 14 Sunday 3.30 pm Palace of Arts Messiaen: Turangalílá Symphony Fischer, Muraro

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2015 JANUARY 31 Saturday 3.30 pm Palace of Arts Mozart: The Magic Flute – overture Mozart: Violin Concerto in A major, K. 219 Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – incidental music Fischer, Zukerman, Richter, Kozelj, Pro Musica Girls’ Choir FEBRUARY 22 Sunday 3.30 pm Palace of Arts Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27 Kurtág: Dialogues for Orchestra Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor. Op. 120 Takács-Nagy, ifj. Kurtág MAY 17 Sunday 3.30 pm Palace of Arts Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 Fischer JUNE 13 3.30 pm Saturday (A) JUNE 14 3.30 pm Sunday (B) Academy of Music Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor (“Mourning”), Hob. I:39 Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, op. 74 Mozart: German Dances, K. 509 Mozart: Symphony No. 28 in C major, K. 200 Takács-Nagy, Csalló

Prices 28% discount compared to the single tickets’ prices Premium Category: 76.100 Ft I. Category: 46.900 Ft II. Category: 32.900 Ft III. Category: 25.700 Ft IV. Category: 14.400 Ft

ORMÁNDY A+b

2015

5 Concerts

MARCH 9 Monday 7 pm Palace of Arts Mozart: The Magic Flute, K. 620 Fischer, Fredrich, Rial, Richter, Müller-Brachmann

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APRIL 11 Saturday 7.45 pm Academy of Music Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 4 in F major, Op. 3 Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor, BWV 1060 Corelli: Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major, Op. 6 Vivaldi: Concerto in C major, RV 117 Vivaldi: Amor hai vinto, RV 683 Telemann: Violin Concerto in A major (“The Frogs”), TWV 51:A4 Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684 Cohen, Sabata, Čičić

+ bonus (6th) concert on November 4

OCTOBER 24 Friday 7.45pm (A) OCTOBER 25 Saturday 7.45pm (B) Haydn: Symphony No. 39 in G minor, Hob. I:39 Mozart: German Dances, K. 571 Vanhal: Concerto for Double Bass in D major Rossini: Bassoon Concerto Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K. 543 Takács-Nagy, Fejérvári, Bressan NOVEMBER 4 Tuesday 7.45 pm Academy of Music Locatelli: Il Pianto d’Arianna, Op. 7, no. 6 Telemann: Concerto for Recorder and Flute in E minor, TWV 52:e1 Leclair: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 10, no. 3 Handel: Apollo and Daphne Cohen, Richter, Berg NOVEMBER 20 Thursday 7.45 pm Academy of Music Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (Mikhail Pletnev’s arrangement) Glazunov: The Seasons, Op. 67 Pletnev, Cho

JUNE 12 Friday 7.45 pm Academy of Music Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor (“Mourning”), Hob. I:39 Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, op. 74 Mozart: German Dances, K. 509 Mozart: Symphony No. 28 in C major, K. 200 Takács-Nagy, Csalló

Prices 20% discount compared to the single tickets’ prices Premium Category: 55.350 Ft I. Category: 33.600 Ft II. Category: 23.500 Ft III. Category: 18.550 Ft IV. Category: 12.000 Ft

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Season Tickets SZÉLL 5 Concerts

+ bonus (6th) concert on June 11

2014 NOVEMBER 03 Monday 7.45 pm Academy of Music Locatelli: Il Pianto d’Arianna, Op. 7, no. 6 Telemann: Concerto for Recorder and Flute in E minor, TWV 52:e1 Leclair: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 10, no. 3 Handel: Apollo and Daphne Cohen, Richter, Berg NOVEMBER 27 Thursday 7.45 pm Palace of Arts Gabriel Fauré: Pelléas and Mélisande Hector Berlioz: La mort de Cléopâtre Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales Claude Debussy: La mer Ticciati, Antonacci DECEMBER 26 Friday 7.45 pm Budapest Congress Centre Christmas Surprise Concert Fischer

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2015 MARCH 11 Wednesday 7 pm Palace of Arts Mozart: The Magic Flute, K. 620 Fischer, Fredrich, Rial, Richter, Müller-Brachmann APRIL 12 Sunday 3.30 pm Academy of Music Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 4 in F major, Op. 3 Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor, BWV 1060 Corelli: Concerto Grosso No. 2 in F major, Op. 6 Vivaldi: Concerto in C major, RV 117 Vivaldi: Amor hai vinto, RV 683 Telemann: Violin Concerto in A major (“The Frogs”), TWV 51:A4 Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684 Cohen, Sabata, Čičić JUNE 11 Thursday 7.45 pm Academy of Music Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor (“Mourning”), Hob. I:39 Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, op. 74 Mozart: German Dances, K. 509 Mozart: Symphony No. 28 in C major, K. 200 Takács-Nagy, Csalló

Prices 20% discount compared to the single tickets’ prices Premium Category: 57.850 Ft I. Category: 32.250 Ft II. Category: 24.720 Ft III. Category: 19.450 Ft IV. Category: 12.000 Ft

Young BFo 4 Concerts

at the Palace of Arts + flexible choice Discounted season tickets for students – choose what you want! If you are a student then you can buy a season ticket (with a student ID card) for some of the best category seats; it costs just 6000 Ft and can be used for four concerts of your choice. At the given venue, season-ticket holders can choose from any tickets not sold for the concert, 30 minutes before the concert starts. The only risk is that you have to wait until the next concert if all the tickets are snapped up beforehand ... But it’s still a great deal!

Cocoa Season Ticket 4 cocoa concerts + gift mug

Our highly successful cocoa concert series continues. Since the tickets are usually picked up quickly, it is a good idea to secure your place with a season ticket. Worth 10.000 Ft, your season ticket comes with a beautiful gift mug. In the 2014-15 season we introduce family season tickets for the cocoa concerts, in addition to the normal cocoa concert season tickets: buy three season passes with a 20% discount, for 24.000 Ft, instead of 30.000 Ft.

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Budapest Festival Orchestra Music Director: Iván Fischer Executive Director: Stefan Englert Deputy Executive Director: Orsolya Erdődy Financial Director: Györgyné Maglódi Accountant: Lászlóné Szalai Operatonal Manager: Dóra Magyarszéky Touring Manager: Bence Pócs Assistant of Touring Manager: Ivett Wolf Communications Director: Ágota Narancsik Marketing expert: Szilvia Fejes Senior Development Associate: Beáta Bukvai Manager of Audience Relations: Orsolya Bagi Executive Secretary: Adrienn Balogh Assistant: Angyalka Aranyosné Boros Personal Assistant to Music Director: Rita Szabó Personnel Manager: Éva Kelemen Stage Manager: Zentai Róbert Stage Technicians: Sándor Kathi, Ákos Margitházi Advisors: Margit Makai (Audience Relations) Júlia Váradi (PR) Alan Watt (Sponsoring) Budapest Festival Orchestra Foundation Honorary President: Árpád Göncz Chairman of the Board: András Simor Board members: M. László Balássy, Stephen Benko, István Boros, György Granasztói, Miklós Marschall, Konstantin Schimert, Tamiko Soros, András Szecskay, Sylvia Tóth, Hubertus von Wulffen, Péter B. Záboji, Izabella Zwack

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Members of the Supervisory Board: Csaba László (chairman), János Dávid, János Sziklai

Advisors: András Batta, Gábor Bojár, Károly Dán, László Donáth, Zsófia Dornbachné Zachár, Botond Elekes, Mária Feuer, Kinga Göncz, Gábor Győző, Charles Huebner, Péterné Jüttner, Mihály K. Varga, David Kirkby, Mihály Kökény, Aladár Madarász, Bálint Nagy, Károly Nagy, József Péter, Gergely Prőhle, János Schiffer, Imre Sívó, Éva Sólyom, László Tihanyi, Mark Wodlinger, Chairman of the Budapest Festival Orchestra Association: Eszter Bánffy Contacts Office: 1033 Budapest, Polgár utca 8-10. Telephone: +36 1 489-43 30 Fax: +36 1 355-40 49 Email: bfofound@mail.datanet.hu Bank account number: MKB Bank 10300002-10612608-49020027 Website: www.bfz.hu Online ticket purchasing: www.jegymester.hu Published by the Budapest Festival Orchestra Foundation Publisher-in-chief: BFO Director Stefan Englert Editor: László Győri Graphic design: Büro für mitteilungen (BFM) Photos Arsys Bourgogne/Zuidberg Weiler Francios (24); László Balkányi/WeLoveBudapest (71); Marco Borggreve (37, 53); Felix Broede (11); Ian Douglas (9–10), Andrea Felvégi (47); Eszter Gordon (22, 60–61); Maike Helbig (25); Harald Hoffmann/Deutsche Gramophone (34, 51); Bálint Hrotkó (2, 12–14, 26, 62, 72, 76, 81–82, 86, 98, 118); Cheryl Mazak (42), V. Katala (39)

cONCERt Calendar

Concerts 2014 The coloured dots are helping to identify the subscription series. Doráti Ormándy Reiner Solti Széll

16th Tuesday 7:45 pm

Müpa, Festival Theater Bridging Europe Muffat, Handel Seiler, Suh

21st Sunday 5 pm

BFO Rehearsal Hall Sunday Chamber Music

28th Sunday 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm BFO Rehearsal Hall Cocoa Concert

OcToBER SEPTEMBER 10th Wednesday 7 pm

Müpa, Festival Theater Bridging Europe Weill Jankó

11th Thursday 7:45 pm

Müpa, BBNH Bridging Europe, Contemporary Night Henze, Rihm, Trojahn, Widmann Ollu, Wieder-Atherton

12th Friday 7:45 pm

Müpa, BBNH Bridging Europe Brahms Fischer Solti

13th Saturday 7:45 pm

Müpa, BBNH R. Strauss, Mahler Fischer, Schäfer, Christoyannis Doráti

04th Saturday 7:45 pm

Müpa, BBNH R. Strauss, Mahler Fischer, Schäfer, Christoyannis Solti

04th Saturday 11:30 pm Millenáris, Teátrum Midnight Music Mahler Fischer

05th Sunday 3:30 pm

Müpa, BBNH R. Strauss, Mahler Fischer, Schäfer, Christoyannis Reiner

Müpa, BBNH Bridging Europe Brahms Fischer Doráti

19th Sunday 5 pm

14th Saturday 3:30 pm

24th Friday 7:45 pm

Müpa, BBNH Bridging Europe Brahms Fischer Reiner

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03rd Friday 7:45 pm

BFO Rehearsal Hall Sunday Chamber Music Music Academy, Grand Hall Haydn-Mozart Plus J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Vanhal, Rossini Takács-Nagy, Fejérvári, Bressan Ormándy A

25th Saturday 7:45 pm

Music Academy, Grand Hall Haydn-Mozart Plus J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Vanhal, Rossini Takács-Nagy, Fejérvári, Bressan Ormándy B

26th Sunday 7 pm

09th Sunday 5 pm

BFO Rehearsal Hall Sunday Chamber Music

20th Thursday 7:45 pm

Music Academy, Grand Hall Chopin, Glazunov Pletnev, Cho Ormándy

Pécs J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Vanhal, Rossini Takács-Nagy, Fejérvári, Bressan

21st Friday 7:45 pm

27th Monday 7 pm

22nd Saturday 3:30 pm

Székesfehérvár J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Vanhal, Rossini Takács-Nagy, Fejérvári, Bressan

28th Tuesday 7 pm

Nyíregyháza J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Vanhal, Rossini Takács-Nagy, Fejérvári, Bressan

NOVEMBER 03rd Monday 7:45 pm

Music Academy, Grand Hall Baroque Night Locatelli, Telemann, Leclair, Handel Cohen, Richter, Berg, Degand, Boeke Széll

04th Tuesday 7:45 pm

Music Academy, Grand Hall Baroque Night Locatelli, Telemann, Leclair, Handel Cohen, Richter, Berg, Degand, Boeke Ormándy

Music Academy, Grand Hall Chopin, Glazunov Pletnev, Cho Doráti A

Music Academy, Grand Hall Chopin, Glazunov Pletnev, Cho Doráti B

27th Thursday 7:45 pm Müpa, BBNH Fauré, Berlioz, Ravel, Debussy Ticciati, Antonacci Széll

29th Saturday 7:45 pm Müpa, BBNH Fauré, Berlioz, Ravel, Debussy Ticciati, Antonacci Solti

29th Saturday 11:30 pm Millenáris, Teátrum Midnight Music Ravel, Debussy Ticciati

30th Sunday 3:30 pm Müpa, BBNH Fauré, Berlioz, Ravel, Debussy Ticciati, Antonacci Reiner

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DECEMBER

Concerts 2015

07th Sunday 2:30 pm and 2:30 pm BFO Rehearsal Hall Cocoa Concert

12th Friday 7:45 pm Müpa, BBNH Messiaen Fischer, Muraro, Hartmann-Claverie Doráti

13th Saturday 7:45 pm Müpa, BBNH Messiaen Fischer, Muraro, Hartmann-Claverie Solti

14th Sunday 3:30 pm Müpa, BBNH Messiaen Fischer, Muraro, Hartmann-Claverie Reiner

26th Friday 7:45 pm

Budapest Congress Centre Christmas Surpise Concert Fischer Széll

27th Saturday 7:45 pm

Budapest Congress Centre Christmas Surpise Concert Fischer Solti

JANUaRy 11th Sunday 5 pm

BFO Rehearsal Hall Sunday Chamber Music

29th Thursday 7:45 pm

Müpa, BBNH W. A. Mozart, Mendelssohn Fischer, Zukerman, Richter, Kozelj, Pro Musica Girls’ Choir Solti

30th Friday 7:45 pm

Müpa, BBNH W. A. Mozart, Mendelssohn Fischer, Zukerman, Richter, Kozelj, Pro Musica Girls’ Choir Doráti

31st Saturday 3:30 pm Müpa, BBNH W. A. Mozart, Mendelssohn Fischer, Zukerman, Richter, Kozelj, Pro Musica Girls’ Choir Reiner 31th Saturday 11:30 pm

Millenáris, Teátrum Midnight Music Mendelssohn Fischer

FEBRUaRy 07th Saturday Müpa Stravinsky Marathon 08th Sunday 2:30 pm 116

and 2:30 pm BFO Rehearsal Hall Cocoa Concert

19th Thursday 7:45 pm

Müpa, BBNH Mendelssohn, Kurtág, R. Schumann Takács-Nagy, Kurtág Jr. Solti

20th Friday 7:45 pm

Müpa, BBNH Mendelssohn, Kurtág, R. Schumann Takács-Nagy, Kurtág Jr. Doráti

21st Saturday 7 pm

Veszprém Mendelssohn, Kurtág, R. Schumann Takács-Nagy, Kurtág Jr.

22nd Sunday 3:30 pm

Müpa, BBNH Mendelssohn, Kurtág, R. Schumann Takács-Nagy, Kurtág Jr. Reiner

23rd Monday 7:30 pm Szombathely Mendelssohn, Kurtág, R. Schumann Takács-Nagy, Kurtág Jr.

March 01st Sunday 2:30 pm and 2:30 pm BFO Rehearsal Hall Cocoa Concert

07th Saturday 7 pm

Müpa, BBNH W. A. Mozart Fischer, Friedrich, Rial, Richter, Müller-Brachmann Doráti

09th Monday 7 pm

Müpa, BBNH W. A. Mozart Fischer, Friedrich, Rial, Richter, Müller-Brachmann Ormándy

11th Wednesday 7 pm

Müpa, BBNH W. A. Mozart Fischer, Friedrich, Rial, Richter, Müller-Brachmann Széll

15th Sunday 5 pm

BFO Rehearsal Hall Sunday Chamber Music

APRIl 10th Friday 7:45 pm

BMC Contemporary Night Lang, Mackey, Bella, Boulez Rácz, Szabó, Károlyi

10th Friday 11:30 pm

Millenáris, Teátrum Midnight Music Lang, Bella, Handel, Telemann, J. S. Bach, Vivaldi Rácz, Cohen

11th Saturday 11:30 pm

Music Academy, Grand Hall Baroque Night Handel, J. S. Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann Cohen, Sabata, Čičić Ormándy

12th vasárnap 3:30 pm

Music Academy, Grand Hall Baroque Night Handel, J. S. Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann Cohen, Sabata, Čičić Széll 117

13th Monday 7 pm

Miskolc Handel, J. S. Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann Cohen, Sabata, Čičić

17th Sunday 3:30 Müpa, BBNH Brahms Fischer Reiner

14th Tuesday 7 pm

Kecskemét Handel, J. S. Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann Cohen, Sabata, Čičić

26th Sunday 5 pm

BFO Rehearsal Hall Sunday Chamber Music

May 01st Friday 7:45 pm Müpa, BBNH Wagenaar, Beethoven, Shostakovich van Zweden, Fray Doráti 02nd Saturday 3:30 Müpa, BBNH Wagenaar, Beethoven, Shostakovich van Zweden, Fray Solti 15th Friday 7:45 pm Müpa, BBNH Brahms Fischer Doráti

16th Saturday 7:45 pm Müpa, BBNH Brahms Fischer Solti

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June 06th Saturday 7 pm

Keszthely, Festetics Palace Castle Concert Rossini, Mendelssohn, Sugár, Orbán Szefcsik

11th Thursday 7:45 pm

Music Academy, Grand Hall Haydn-Mozart Plus J. Haydn, Weber, W. A. Mozart Takács-Nagy, Csalló Széll

12th Friday 7:45 pm

Music Academy, Grand Hall Haydn-Mozart Plus J. Haydn, Weber, W. A. Mozart Takács-Nagy, Csalló Ormándy

13th Saturday 3:30 pm

Music Academy, Grand Hall Haydn-Mozart Plus J. Haydn, Weber, W. A. Mozart Takács-Nagy, Csalló Reiner A

14th Sunday 3:30 pm

Music Academy, Grand Hall Haydn-Mozart Plus J. Haydn, Weber, W. A. Mozart Takács-Nagy, Csalló Reiner B