(…) French composers also enjoyed a prominent position at the festival, strengthened partly through the Berlioz Jubilee and partly the resonances of FranciaArt. In my opinion, the performance of Romeo and Juliet by the National Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Choir was a premiere event not just of the festival but of international concert life. […]
Géza Kovács, the director of the National Philharmonic Orchestra talks about the orchestra's rising stock and his esteem for the other ensembles. The two month American tour of the National Philharmonic Orchestra, which is virtually unprecedented in its history, is drawing to a close. The orchestra, which has enjoyed an immensely successful tour, was rejoined […]
(…) French composers also enjoyed a prominent position at the festival, strengthened partly through the Berlioz Jubilee and partly the resonances of FranciaArt. In my opinion, the performance of Romeo and Juliet by the National Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Choir was a premiere event not just of the festival but of international concert life. […]
(…) French composers also enjoyed a prominent position at the festival, strengthened partly through the Berlioz Jubilee and partly the resonances of FranciaArt. In my opinion, the performance of Romeo and Juliet by the National Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Choir was a premiere event not just of the festival but of international concert life. […]
(…) French composers also enjoyed a prominent position at the festival, strengthened partly through the Berlioz Jubilee and partly the resonances of FranciaArt. In my opinion, the performance of Romeo and Juliet by the National Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Choir was a premiere event not just of the festival but of international concert life. […]
In what would turn out to be his last filmed interview, Georg Solti expounded on his assertion that only Hungarians could properly perform the works of Bartók. As a forceful example, the maestro played the first few measures of Duke Bluebeard's Castle on the piano in the style that we have all come to appreciate […]
A csütörtök esti koncert zenéje a Magyar Nemzeti Filharmonikusok előadásában elsöprő erővel, tökéletes összhangban csendült fel. A tidal wave of sound burst from the precisely tuned Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra on Thursday night. It was a resplendent sound both in its volume and its clarity as the orchestra deluged the enormous Bob Jones University Amphitorium […]
Katalin Károlyi was the weak link at the latest concert of the National Philharmonic Orchestra, which is primarily surprising because audiences generally react better to concert pieces featuring a human voice. The orchestra's concert otherwise comprised of rarities: Stravinsky, a barely known Bartók (Four Orchestral Pieces), Rachmaninov orchestrated by Respighi, all things to alarm audiences. […]
Hungarian National Philharmonic plays Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra with verve. Bartok composed his Concerto for Orchestra in 1943 as a dying man in the United States. It doesn't tell a story, but it's generally regarded as a longing look at his homeland, Hungary. It shifts from heaviness in the first movement to life assertion in […]
It may have been predictable for the Hungarian National Philharmonic, which visited the Irvine Barclay Theatre Friday night, to offer an all-Hungarian program. But it was also the right and compelling thing to do. As often happens when an orchestra takes its native repertoire on tour, the Hungarians brought a nice mixture of zealotry and […]
