An extraordinary present from Zoltán Kocsis to classical music fans 23 December 2010, Bartók Béla National Concert Hall Fund-raising concert for UNICEF At Christmastime, we usually put on our serious face to make the holiday more sacred. I thought that Haydn’s Nelson Mass is too short for our usual Christmas concert, and we’d need […]
The idea of composing a Requiem had first come to Verdi at the time of Rossini’s death, but he did not actually write what has become the most multifaceted, staggering and dramatically most powerful funeral mass in the history of music until after the death of Alessandro Manzoni. Italian conductors represent a special line in […]
Erkel was thirty, when he composed his first opera titled Bátori Mária that is composed of two acts. The premi?re of the opera was held on 8 August 1840 at the Pesti Magyar Színház (The Hungarian Theatre of Pest); the day when the aforementioned cultural institution was re-named as National Theatre. The script of the […]
