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“the perfect neighbourly ice-breaker before the ensuing traipse through the chilly Cold War escapades”
Reviewed at Müpa: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest on 13 January 2017
Sibelius, Lemminkäinen's Return, Op.22 no.4
Shostakovich, Cello Concerto no. 2 in G major, Op.126
Prokofiev, Symphony no. 6 in E flat minor, Op.111
Truls Mørk, Cello
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen, 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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