Our weekly transmissions 8–14 March 2021
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DEAR VIEWERS, We believe that there are no limits to the Müpa Budapest experience. We would like, even during this extraordinary situation, for our fantastic audience to still be able to encounter the world’s most outstanding and thrilling artists each evening – this time in their own homes. It is precisely for this reason that we have decided to unlock our media library for everyone over the weeks to come and – each night at the familiar times: 7 pm, 7.30 pm or 8 pm, depending on genre – open Müpa Budapest’s virtual concert hall by providing access to many live concerts (although without an audience) or an unforgettable performance from past years, which we’ll transmit on our website, and our YouTube channel. We trust that, in this way, we will be able to make the evenings you are spending at home more pleasant and full of magical and uplifting moments. Take good care, and let’s continue to stick together!
Accademia Bizantina • Photo © Giulia Papetti
Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 7.30 pm
EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
ACCADEMIA BIZANTINA Vivaldi: Sinfonia in G major for strings and basso continuo, RV 146 • Vivaldi: Filiae Maestae Jerusalem, RV 638 • Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor for viola d’amore, strings and basso continuo, RV 394 • Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans – ’Agitata infido flatu’, RV 644 • Porpora: In procella sine stella – motet • Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in F major, RV 138 • Vivaldi: Tieteberga – ’L’innocenza sfortunata’, RV 737 • Vivaldi: Sovente il sole (from the pasticcio-serenata Andromeda Liberata), RV Anh. 117 • Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in A minor, RV 161 • Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate – cantata, RV 684 Featuring: Delphine Galou – contralto • Alessandro Tampieri – violin, viola d’amore Conductor and harpsichordist: Ottavio Dantone “Making music like a large quartet” was the stated artistic goal of the Accademia Bizantina on its foundation in Ravenna in 1983. The period instrument ensemble has gone on to worldwide success in the intervening decades, its name evoking the city’s 6th century basilica, a masterpiece of Byzantine architecture famed for its mosaics. The ensemble has remained faithful to the basic principle stated at its beginning: no matter what music it plays, its interpretation is always in the spirit of chamber music, using a small number of performers, with a translucent sound, and with attention paid to the internal shifts of the musical parts. Recording date: 7 March 2021. (Bagnacavallo’s Teatro Goldoni) The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Dezső Ránki
Friday, 12 March 2021, 7.30 pm
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488 • Puccini: Messa di Gloria Featuring: Dezső Ránki – piano • Szabolcs Brickner – tenor Benjamin Russell – baritone • Conductor: Cristian Mandeal, Zsolt Hamar We are unlikely to find a more sensitive and well versed performer of this piano concerto and its movement of otherworldly beauty than Dezső Ránki. Mozart composed it in 1786, two months before the premiere of his opera, Le nozze di Figaro. Puccini’s mass was the diploma composition of a 25-year-old composer that took on its final form in a later revision and only saw the light of day decades after the maestro’s death. This recording was made at concerts held at Müpa Budapest on 6 December 2016 (Mozart) and 17 February 2018 (Puccini). The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Sebastian Kohlhepp • Photo © Julia Wesely
Saturday, 13 March 2021, 7.30 pm
MENDELSSOHN: ELIAS Featuring: Aliz Ballabás, Polina Pasztircsák, Ágnes Pintér – soprano Dorottya Láng, Gabriella Móré – mezzo-soprano • Eszter Balogh – alto Márton Komáromi, Sebastian Kohlhepp – tenor • Jochen Kupfer – baritone Ákos Borka, Zoltán Melkovics – bass • Emőke Dömötör – child soprano Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir • Conductor: György Vashegyi In Leipzig in 1829, the 20-year-old Mendelssohn awoke Bach’s St Matthew Passion from its 100-year slumber with a historic performance, initiating both the Bach renaissance and the early music movement. It is therefore fitting that we listen to his great oratorios in a historical interpretation. György Vashegyi often said that he admired Mendelssohn’s music, and it has long been apparent through his leadership of two ensembles, the Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir, that he has done much to popularise the composer’s works in Hungary. This recording was made at the concert held at Müpa Budapest on 26 October 2018. The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
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PREVIEW
Viewers’ favourites from Müpa Budapest’s media library – now with no registration required!
JOYCE DIDONATO AND IL COMPLESSO BAROCCO 9 November 2013
MOZART EVENING
Zoltán Kocsis, Krisztián Kocsis and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra 20 January 2013
GYULA BABOS: MAKROKOZMOSZ 10 December 2014
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