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Müpa Budapest

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Gergely Madaras

Marco Comin

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Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra

BPO 170

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Wiener Staatsoper

BPO 170: Festival Overture Erkel (+3 More)

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Festival Overture

Symphonic Minutes, Op. 36 (1933)

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 B. 178

Fool's Fairytale

Pallavi Pawar

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The first ‘philharmonic concert' to be held in the city of Pest took place on 20 November 1853 under the baton of Ferenc Erkel, becoming the first stop in the 170-year journey of what would later come to be known as the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. The chroniclers say that this day marked the birth of symphony orchestra life in our country, as Erkel used the occasion of this first concert to announce a season ticket consisting of five more such events, allowing the audience thenceforth to come into regular contact with the magic of European classical music.

In the first half of this jubilee concert, the orchestra pays tribute to their founder. After the Festival Overture and true to tradition, the art of the present will also get an airing with a new composition by Hungarian composer and conductor Gergely Vajda. The second part of the concert features a great audience favourite of Czech Romanticism: in 1899, the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra presented Dvořák's Ninth Symphony, catchily titled ‘From the New World', to the Hungarian audience, ...

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BPO 170 by Erkel, Dohnányi, E., Dvořák, Vajda, G., From (2023/2023), Conductor Gergely Madaras, Marco Comin, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria

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