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In memoriam Zoltán Kocsis: tribute by the Budapest Festival Orchestra tops a stunning concert

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Reviewed at Liszt Academy: Grand Hall, Budapest on 2 December 2016
Bartók, Piano Concerto no. 3, Sz 119: Adagio religioso
Schubert, Die Zauberharfe, D.644: Ouvertüre
Bartók, Violin Concerto no. 2, Sz 112
Bartók, Hungarian Sketches (Magyar képek) for orchestra, SZ 97
Schubert, Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, D.485
Schubert, Chor der Engel from Goethe's Faust, D.440 (Encore)
Leonidas Kavakos, Violin
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, Conductor
Clarity and communion in Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Mahler 3
*****
Budapest Festival Orchestra plays – and sings – at Carnegie Hall
****1
Budapest Festival Orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie
****1
Unseduced: Don Giovanni opens the Budapest Festival Orchestra season
***11
Bluebeard at the Proms with Iván Fischer and the BFO
*****
Earth-shattering Mahler 2 from the Budapest FO at the Mahler Festival
*****
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