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Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 7.30pm
The King’s Singers
Müpa Budapest
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Hungary
+36 1 555 3000
http://www.mupa.hu
info@mupa.hu
The King’s Singers
The works by Morley, Reger, Ligeti, Bartók, Biebl, Kodály and Bob Chilcott, along with a popular selection from the repertoire of The King’s Singers.
The royal vocal ensemble are returning guests to Budapest, where their performances are always greatly anticipated. Their concert programmes cover a wide range of works from Renaissance madrigals to the covers of current pop hits, and their ethereally clear sound has become a byword over the years.
46 years, over 2000 musical pieces, more than 150 records, two Grammy Awards, the premiere of some 200 contemporary works, and thousands of sell-out concerts in Europe, the United States and the Far East. Figures that characterize what is one the best, if not the best, a cappella ensembles today, which made its debut at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 1 May, 1968.
Though 22 singers have held tenures in the ensemble during its history of almost five decades, The King’s Singers owns an inimitable sound that can only be compared to that of the Vienna Philharmonic or the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. What makes these gentlemen truly unique is that whatever music they perform, the quality is world-class: they apply the same consistent enthusiasm, team spirit and professionalism to everything they sing, be it a Renaissance motet, a mass, a chanson, a Romantic choral song, a spiritual, a contemporary piece or a pop hit.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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22 Oct
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Friday, April 22, 2016 at 8pm
Light from the Outside World
Budapest Spring Festival
Various, Budapest
Hungary
+36 1 555 3000
http://www.bsf.hu
info@btf.hu
Light from the Outside World
Jeff Mills and the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda
The American Jeff Mills is one of today’s best-known and most innovative DJs, who also started to work with symphonic orchestras in recent years. He presented Light from the Outside World in 2012 at the Paris Salle Pleyel, and the project has since met with great success in Portugal, Belgium and Australia. At the Budapest concert, the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda will be directed by Christophe Mangou, the conductor of the Paris premiere.
One of the greatest stars of techno clubs, Jeff Mills came up with a unique project in 2000, composing a new musical score for Metropolis (1926), Fritz Lang’s cultic film. This monumental work effected a great breakthrough. It was wild, timeless and narrative in nature at the same time. It was shown at several places in the world, including the Paris Music Museum, the London Royal Albert Hall and the International Festival of Vienna.
It was at this time Mills started to explore a different sound, a different kind of musical dramaturgy. “Music always tells a story. Some we understand, some we don’t, and sometimes it all comes together only later,” which is one of the greatest adventures.
Jeff Mills : Light from the Outside World
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22 Oct
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Friday, April 22, 2016 at 7.30pm
László Dubrovay: Faust, the Damned
Budapest Spring Festival
Various, Budapest
Hungary
+36 1 555 3000
http://www.bsf.hu
info@btf.hu
Featuring:
Ballet Pécs, Zugló Philharmonia – King Saint Stephen Symphony Orchestra
Set, costumes:
Zsuzsa Molnár
Choreography:
Balázs Vincze
Conductor:
Kálmán Záborszky
László Dubrovay finished his grand ballet more than twenty years ago. The story of Faust the Damned is based on the two parts of Goethe’s masterpiece, and like that philosophical drama, the music of this piece also strives for an encyclopaedic thoroughness. “All I know about the apparatus of contemporary music is in there,” said the composer once. And indeed: the orchestra bathes in special colours, the dance scenes shape living characters, the notes turn into images on their own account, as it were.
Production choreographer Balázs Vincze thinks Dubrovay’s vision of Faust is “monumental, its story worked out in great detail; it is astonishingly colourful, you can almost visualize the composition without the dance: the composer’s personality is at least as inspiring as Faust’s wanderings, loves and descent into hell.”
“Is damnation possible at the end of an honest, exemplary life? Can the forces of evil be victorious?” asks László Dubrovay. “This is the question addressed by this dance drama, whose music is one of the most extensive ballet compositions of the past seventy years. The dramaturgy of the plot allowed me to create a great many kinds of moods, and musical material rich in gestures and movements, all of which serves, together with the way dance and motion communicate, a harmonious presentation on the stage.”
László Dubrovay : Faust, the Damned
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