Dear Guests,In accordance with the state of emergency declared in Hungary, Budapest Music Center is cancelling all events between November 10 and December 10, 2020 as a force majeure measure. Tickets purchased online will be automatically refunded by Interticket. Tickets purchased in person are refundable online at jegy.hu/altalanosjegyvisszavaltas. Please check BMC's website for further announcements.We appreciate your cooperation and understanding.Budapest Music Center

A Mozart-zongoraversenyek páratlan hegyvonulatának egyik egészen titokzatos, a nagy csúcsoktól messze elkülönülő magaslata a még Salzburgban írt Esz-dúr zongoraverseny (K 271). Technikai, tartalmi és érzelmi komplexitása miatt minden megszólaltatása eseményszámba megy, ha pedig olyan művész lép a pódiumra, mint Rados Ferenc, akkor maga az ünnep.

"I am most attracted to Baroque music and to the music of ages before the Baroque, and of course to the music by my contemporaries," said Bánk Sáry recently. In his freshly completed composition, “The Eternal Poem,” however, he looks far farther, both in time and space: with the piece, he summoned a Chinese poet who was active 1300 years ago. But how was all this received in China? Janáček's piece for string ensemble refers to a baroque genre, and László Sáry's work, completed in 2017, was created for the 200th anniversary of the birth of the poet János Arany. Arany's famous “Old man with the tambourine” is summoned; he sometimes recalls old songs, or comes up with his own, with lyrics that are “highfaluting, with a German melody”. Maybe Arany (or László Sáry) was thinking of Bach? But what makes the hour of our death sweet, and who can we long for it? We can promise that in Classic Lights, there will be no questions left in the air after the new season of the concert series.

How on earth can a production by a sophisticated new-music ensemble feature two Barbie dolls, Frankenstein, and a work entitled Fiji that, according to American critic Tom Huizenga of NPR’s All Things Considered, “swings with a pop-sensibility and a serious South American groove”? Pop music and the real and imaginary figures of pop culture are all around us – every day and everywhere – and our intentional or accidental encounters with them have an inevitable effect on us. Through the works of four American and one Austrian composer, we can discover how the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Frank Zappa, or the figure of a cabaret Frankenstein (a bloodthirsty politician lurking in nursery rhymes) are transformed into contemporary music.“Oh, Ken! Oh, Ken! What can I do?I’m plastic just like you.”So sings Barbie, and by the end of the concert, maybe it will be revealed how plastic, pop music and rock bands can become high culture.

Dear Visitors, The masterclass is cancelled due to technical reasons. We apologize for any inconvenience. Danubia Orchestra Óbuda

Tíz éve, 2011 június 30-án hunyt el Petrovics Emil, zeneszerző, a haza művészeti élet egyik meghatározó személyisége. A Budapesti Vonósok egy megindító vonószenekari darabbal idézik meg alakját, majd Érdi Tamás szólójával Chopin népszerű, f-moll zongoraversenye szólal meg. Kevesen tudják, hogy Petrovics mennyire kedvelte Chopin muzsikáját, a lengyel zsenit szívesen emlegette a legnagyobbak – Michelangelo, Bach és Bartók – között.