Newly-minted Festival Academy Budapest

By Alexandra Ivanoff, 27 July 2016

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Reviewed at Liszt Academy: Grand Hall, Budapest on 24 July 2016

Bach, Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), BWV1080

Kurtág, Scenes from a Novel, for soprano and ensemble, Op. 19

Kurtág, The Little Predicament, Op.15b

Kurtág, Hommage à Robert Schumann, Op.15d

Brahms, String Quintet no. 2 in G major, Op.111

Kurtág, Six Moments Musicaux for string quartet, Op.44

Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet

Anna Reinhold, Mezzo-soprano

Barnabás Kelemen, Violin

András Szalai, Cimbalom

Zsolt Fejérvári, Double Bass

Gergely Ittzés, Flute

Róbert Káip, Trombone

Dávid Pavlovits, Guitar

Csaba Klenyán, Clarinet

József Balog, Piano

Gábor Homoki, Violin

József Lendvay, Violin

Katalin Kokas, Viola

Jing Yang, Viola

Maxim Rysanov, Viola

László Fenyö, Cello

Kelemen Quartet

Members of the Festival Academy Budapest

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.

*****

Beethoven, Schubert und eine Gänsemutter an der Festival Academy Budapest

Rolf Kyburz, 11th June

Das Kelemen-Quartett überzeugte mit leichter Artikulation, einem weichen Ton und ausgezeichneter, sprechender Agogik und Dynamik, perfekter Koordination. Es agierte aus einem Geist, mit einer Seele.

****1

Beethoven, Schubert und eine Gänsemutter an der Festival Academy Budapest

Rolf Kyburz, 11th June

Das Kelemen-Quartett überzeugte mit leichter Artikulation, einem weichen Ton und ausgezeichneter, sprechender Agogik und Dynamik, perfekter Koordination. Es agierte aus einem Geist, mit einer Seele.

****1

Atys, an opera fit for a king

Zerbinetta, 18th September

In 1676, Louis XIV’s court composer, Jean-Baptiste Lully, wrote Atys, an unusually tragic opera that became a favorite of the king. In 1987, William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants revived it in an acclaimed series of performances in Paris and eventually at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

*****

Entre lo sagrado y lo operístico: Stabat Mater de Haydn con la OSG

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 10th May

La Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia y el Coro, bajo la dirección de Carlos Mena, ofrecieron el Stabat Mater de Haydn en una versión muy lírica y con una desigual actuación de los solistas.

****1

Fantasio prend sa revanche à l'Opéra-Comique

Stéphane Lelièvre, 13th December

L'œuvre d'Offenbach revient salle Favart et y prend une éclatante revanche : si Fantasio avait été plus ou moins boudé par le public de 1872, celui de 2023 lui fait un triomphe !

*****

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Alexandra Ivanoff

Alexandra Ivanoff is an American journalist who, after singing for five seasons with the San Francisco Opera, lived for eight years in Istanbul, where she began her career as a music journalist with Time Out magazine and Today's Zaman newspaper in that city. After one year in Berlin and now in Budapest, she reviews from various cities and festivals in Europe, as well as Istanbul, New York, and Los Angeles. She has degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music in NY and Yale University Graduate School of Music.

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