FESTIVITIES

The festivities of autumn and winter, All Saints’ Day and Christmas, are an opportunity to lift up our hearts. Music helps to do this – and to identify with what the holidays are truly about. The audience of the Two Requiems evening can remember the departed by listening to the music of György Orbán and Mozart, while the Advent concert features the Cantemus Choir Family conducted by Dénes Szabó and Soma Szabó, and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Children’s Choir conducted by Soma Dinyés. At these events, the role of vocal works is dominant, but so is that of the sacred keyboard instrument: we are able to immerse ourselves in the sound of the Queen of Instruments at the evening of Zsolt Máté Mészáros and the Béla Bartók Female Choir of Szeged, and lastly, the star of the Festivities, the Wiener Sängerknaben, performs a bouquet of the most beautiful pieces from its Christmas repertoire.

Wednesday, 1 November 2023 / 7.30 pm

Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

ALL SAINTS’ DAY

Two Requiems

Orbán & Mozart

Közreműködik: RÉKA KRISTÓF – soprano, DOROTTYA LÁNG – mezzo-soprano, SZILVIA SZILÁGYI – alto, GYULA RAB – tenor, ALEKSEI KULAGIN – baritone, HUNGARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR

Conductor: JÁNOS KOVÁCS

György Orbán: Requiem

Mozart: Requiem, K. 626

Tickets: HUF 3500–12 500

Sunday, 3 December 2023 / 7.30 pm

Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Advent Concert

Featuring: CANTEMUS CHOIR FAMILY (choirmaster: DÉNES SZABÓ, SOMA SZABÓ), HUNGARIAN RADIO CHILDREN’S CHOIR (choirmaster: SOMA DINYÉS), HUNGARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Conductor: DÉNES SZABÓ, SOMA SZABÓ, SOMA DINYÉS

Tickets: HUF 3500–12 500

Wednesday, 13 December 2023 / 7.30 pm

Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Christmas Organ Concert Zsolt M T M Sz Ros And The B La Bart K Female Choir Of Szeged

Featuring: ZSOLT MÁTÉ MÉSZÁROS – organ, BÉLA BARTÓK FEMALE CHOIR OF SZEGED

Conductor: DÁVID VALKAI

J. S. Bach: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564

Liszt: Ave Maria d’Arcadelt

Leontovych: Shchedryk

Joan Szymko: Hodie

Tchaikovsky—Zsolt Máté Mészáros: The Nutcracker, Op. 71 —

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Adam: Cantique de Noël

Franck: Panis Angelicus

Vierne: Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 14 for Organ – VI. Final

Karai: Hodie Christus natus est

Kocsár: O magnum mysterium

Zsolt Máté Mészáros: Two Christmas Organ Pieces — Adeste Fideles

Karg-Elert: Cathedral Windows, Op. 106 — IV. Adeste fideles

Liszt: Christmas Tree – IV. March of the Three Wise Men (Adeste fideles)

Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites, FP 159 – Ave Maria

Antalffy-Zsiross: Christmas Chimes

Kocsár: O Splendid Mysterious Night

Jonathan Scott: Christmas Celebration

Poulenc: Litanies à la Vierge noire, FP 82

Tickets: HUF 2500–9000

Wednesday, 20 December 2023 / 7.30 pm

Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Christmas Concert

Wiener S Ngerknaben

Good Shepherds

WIENER SÄNGERKNABEN (artistic director: GERALD WIRTH)

Featuring: CHORUS JUVENTUS (choirmasters: DANIEL ERAZO-MUÑOZ, OLIVER STECH)

Tickets: HUF 4900–21 500