2021/22 season tickets

Dear Audience,

 

We are delighted to inform you that you will by able to purchase
season tickets for the 2021/22 season from 15 June 2021 (Tuesday),
and individual concert tickets from 22 June (Tuesday).

In order to take advantage of our Loyalty Bonus, you must simultaneously purchase
any quantity of tickets for at least 6 different performances to receive a 30% discount,
and any quantity of tickets for at least 4 different performances for a 20% discount.

The Loyalty Bonus will become available concurrently with the sale of individual tickets on 22 June.

KOCSIS SEASON TICKET
MÜPA BUDAPEST, BÉLA BARTÓK NATIONAL CONCERT HALL
The Hungarian National Philharmonic's Kocsis season ticket involves several core concepts. One of them is a sense of grandeur. And this is entirely appropriate for Zoltán Kocsis, as he was a grand personality in every sense of the word. Verdi's Requiem is a grand work, and we'll be hearing it performed by outstanding Hungarian soloists and a young Italian conductor worth discovering: Giacomo Sagripanti.
Equally grand is Orff's Carmina burana, especially when conducted by Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, who worked closely with Kocsis for many years. Another core concept is that of discovery. Kocsis was a genuine musical Christopher Columbus, and this makes it such a fine thing that the subscription named after him will include Félicien David's opera Herculanum, with an international star cast rehearsed by someone who has resurrected an entire series of neglected masterpieces of the French repertoire: György Vashegyi. And what about the "Scotland" concert, featuring François Leleux as he both performs Mozart's Oboe Concerto and takes the podium to conduct Mendelssohn's concert overture The Hebrides and his Scottish Symphony? This concert is a tribute to versatility, with one of the top oboists in the world showing that he is also a first-rate conductor. No one could dispute that all of this is perfectly suited to Kocsis, the pianist who became a conductor without ever turning his back on his instrument! Popular works, exciting rarities and diversity: this is what the Hungarian National Philharmonic's Kocsis season ticket is all about.
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KOBAYASHI SEASON TICKET
MÜPA BUDAPEST, BÉLA BARTÓK NATIONAL CONCERT HALL
What do the concert pieces (the cantata Alexander Nevsky and Lieutenant Kijé) that Prokofiev fashioned out of his own film scores sound like? What might a fifth or ninth symphony be like if it was created not by Beethoven, but by Shostakovich or Mahler? What about the painting-like Late Romantic Russian concert suite Scheherazade that Rimsky-Korsakov dreamed up?
What are we to make of Beethoven's revolutionary temperament in the Egmont Overture and his gentleness in the two violin romances? And how does Bruckner close out his ouevre with his Ninth Symphony? The Hungarian National Philharmonic's Kobayashi season ticket will answer all of these questions. Who will be breathing life into these exciting works of music? Atala Schöck with her engaging personality and magical alto voice, the virtuoso violinist Arabella Steinbacher and Júlia Pusker with her noble musicality, not to mention such outstanding conductors as Alexander Sladkovsky, János Kovács, Dmitry Liss and Maxim Vengerov. What makes the latter's work with the baton so uniquely exciting is the fact that watching Vengerov conduct is an opportunity to marvel at the rounding out of a musical portrait of one of the finest string virtuosos of recent decades. Awaiting concertgoers at the programmes included in the Hungarian National Philharmonic's Kobayashi season ticket are exciting works, performers with colourful personalities and the rich musical worlds of the conductors on the podium.
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FERENCSIK SEASON TICKET
FRANZ LISZT ACADEMY OF MUSIC, GRAND HALL
In keeping with its namesake, the great conductor of Mozart, the Hungarian National Philharmonic's Ferencsik season ticket skews heavily toward the output of Wolfgang Amadeus – but not just in any old way: also joining the music-making will be the composer's contemporaries, colleagues and friends. Vanhal, Michael and Joseph Haydn, Salieri, Hummel, Vorisek: a panorama of Vienna and Salzburg with an emphasis on the values of Czech musicians.
Symphonies, piano concertos, overtures, a march, a sinfonia concertante and a trumpet concerto. Taking the stage will be Dezső Ránki and Martin Rajna, Ádám Szokolay and Dániel Dinyés, Katalin Kokas and Barnabás Kelemen, Tamás Pálfalvi and Charles Olivieri-Munroe – the latter a Maltese born conductor raised in Canada and a specialist in Czech music. Naturally, this type of season ticket programme also contains some underlying content. On the one hand, it emphasises the importance of the presently ongoing "reclamation" of the Viennese Classical repertoire, just as the Lukács season ticket does with the works of Haydn, and on the other hand, it offers the experience in an enjoyable serving that shows how magically diverse the oft-mentioned "Viennese" classicists were, with Salzburgers, Czechs and Italians among their ranks. Unity and diversity – this is the message of the Ferencsik season ticket.
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LUKÁCS SEASON TICKET
PESTI VIGADÓ, CEREMONIAL HALL
The core of the Hungarian National Philharmonic's Lukács season ticket is made up of the works of Haydn. Why would this be? Because there is nothing more meaningful and entertaining for the audience than hearing one of Haydn's symphonies. And because orchestras that can successfully play Haydn's seemingly simple music, which actually presents a host of delicate tasks, have no other challenges to fear.
Paired with the symphonies at our concerts will be works in a diverse range of genres, including a sinfonia concertante, a piano concerto and, in one case, an entire mass. Engaging in conversation with "papa" Haydn will be the "sons", the composers of the "younger" eras of music history from the 20th and 21st centuries: Levente Gyöngyösi, János Vajda, Emil Petrovics and Miklós Malek. Do the sons ever argue with their father? We should not expect any generational conflict: the composers of new music maintain a fertile relationship with tradition. Also arriving will be other "sons": the successful conductors of the season ticket will be Róbert Farkas, Gábor Hontvári, Gergely Madaras and the choirmaster of the Hungarian National Choir, Csaba Somos, who will also be conducting one of the concerts. Among the soloists, we will find Réka Kristóf, Krisztián Cser, Mihály Boros and Gábor Boldoczki. The Lukács season ticket: an encounter between the centuries.
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PÁSZTI SEASON TICKET
PESTI VIGADÓ, CEREMONIAL HALL
Miklós Pászti founded the Hungarian State Choir, the predecessor to the Hungarian National Choir, in 1986, so it's no wonder that the concerts in the season ticket named after him offer vocal music. But what variety the human voice raised in song will show at these concerts! The first night will feature excerpts from Verdi's operas Ernani, I lombardi, Don Carlo and Simon Boccanegra performed by superb Hungarian soloists and the artists of the Hungarian National Choir.
The second programme is singularly unique: jazz compositions that reflect the works of Zoltán Kodály – with the collaboration between the Hungarian National Choir and the Modern Art Orchestra serving as a pledge of what an experience this will be. The third night in the subscription will be a performance of Bach's Saint John Passion, and the fourth will be Haydn's oratorio The Seasons, meaning that the final two outings will bring a tragic religious piece and a cheerful secular one into the audience's presence. And the conductors? Taking the podium for the Verdian opera gala will be our old favourite, the amazingly evocative Carlo Montanaro, while the Kodály concert will bring the most suitable one to the stage: Csaba Somos, choirmaster of the Hungarian National Choir. Conducting the Saint John Passion will be György Győriványi Ráth, while The Seasons will be played under the baton of Mátyás Antal, the choir's former choirmaster, who led the ensemble for a quarter of a century, with the Szombathely Symphony Orchestra joining in as the guest orchestra.
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OPEN REHEARSAL ROOM
CHAMBER MUSIC SEASON TICKET
MÜPA BUDAPEST, THE REHEARSAL ROOM OF THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
In the open rehearsal room series – which has been a tradition with the Hungarian National Philharmonic for years – we invite the audience to visit the orchestra's rehearsal room. These concerts are special for the artists of both the National Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Choir, as they allow the musicians to establish a more direct connection with their listeners by performing pieces – that they themselves have selected – in chamber groups.
MUSICMANIA
YOUTH SEASON TICKET
MÜPA BUDAPEST, FESTIVAL THEATRE
In the next season of the Musicmania series, we are going to explore a single, highly significant, genre of music: the symphonic poem. But it will not be the famous pieces that we will be examining, but rather works by composers who are not heard in Hungary, but whose every single note contains a surprise.
This happens sometimes through their style and sometimes through their message. Other times, it might even be the forward-looking nature of their musical ideas or even the composer's lonely search owed to an astonishing final result. We are omitting all of the traditionally "great" composers from the endless list of creators of symphonic poems. Although no one should count on hearing the music of Liszt or Richard Strauss, they can depend on encountering works by everyone who helped develop, expand and sustain this genre. Our composers willl include Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Alexander Glazunov, Jean Sibelius, Arthur Honegger, Bohuslav Martinů, Jacques Ibert, Carl Nielsen and Anatoly Lyadov. Each and every one of them was a dazzling symphonist of an era brimming with talent who enriched the colourful palette of music history with unique tones. Now is the time to overrule our elitist judgements and get to know the masterpieces mistakenly classified as "less interesting" that these composers wrote.
Dániel Dinyés
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