Beethoven, Schubert und eine Gänsemutter an der Festival Academy Budapest

By Rolf Kyburz, 13 June 2017

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Reviewed at Liszt Academy: Grand Hall, Budapest on 11 June 2017

Schubert, Fantasy for violin and piano in C major, D.934

Kodály, Énekszó, Op.1: Auszüge

Lubbe, Andere

Ravel, Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)

Beethoven, String Quartet no. 7 in F major, "Razumovsky", Op.59 no.1

Kelemen Quartet

Vilde Frang, Violin

José Gallardo, Piano

Ildikó Komlósi, Mezzo-soprano

Shai Wosner, Piano

József Balog, Piano

Gareth Lubbe, Vocals

László Fenyö, Cello

Newly-minted Festival Academy Budapest

Alexandra Ivanoff, 24th July

Playing repeatedly in my mind as I walked home on 24 July was the spine-chilling orchestral performance of the "Dance of the Knights" from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet in the Franz Liszt Academy’s superb Solti Hall.

***11

Kelemen Quartet brings Hungarian fire to Auckland

Simon Holden, 19th March

Auckland has not seen chamber music of this sheer magnetic excitement since, funnily enough, the Takács Quartet were here a couple of years ago. There must be something in the water in Hungary for that country to concurrently have two such magnificent string quartets.

*****

Newly-minted Festival Academy Budapest

Alexandra Ivanoff, 24th July

***11

Remarkable Die Frau ohne Schatten marred by visual effects

Edward Sava-Segal, 4th September

At the Enescu Festival n Bucharest Vladimir Jurowski celebrates the centennial of Die Frau one Schatten’s premiere.

****1

Astonishing Bartók from the BFO at Carnegie Hall

Ako Imamura, 6th April

In a program devoted to Béla Bartók, the visitors from Hungary conveyed both a distinct uniqueness of their heritage as well as a possibility of music as a tool for communication and understanding.

*****

Idiomatic Bluebeard's Castle from the Hungarians in New York

Vishnu Bachani, 1st November

Powerful and evocative imagery, both literal and implied, lingered on beyond the drop of the curtain.

****1

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Rolf Kyburz

Rolf ist ein besessener Liebhaber und Sammler von klassischer Musik zwischen Renaissance und dem 21. Jahrhundert. Seine musikalische Erfahrung (Violine, Sologesang, Mitgliedschaft in Chören und kleineren Chorensembles) fließt jetzt unter anderem in seinen Blog auf www.rolf-musicblog.net; seit 2014 bespricht er für Bachtrack Konzerte. Vorheriges Leben: Chemiestudium, 30 Jahre Spezialist für wissenschaftliche Instrumente, Computer, Software, Programmieren.