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Musicisti della Budapest Festival Orchestra
Apollo guida delle Muse
Concerti di mezzogiorno
When to Stravinsky was commissioned a ballet with only the conditions of duration and number of dancers, he did not think twice to choose Apollo and his Muses as his subject. from time he wanted to set Greek mythology to music, the plasticity of which would be represented by the notes and movements in the ballet Apollon Musagète. Just as Apollo guides the Muses to Parnassus, Stravinsky's search for the essential guides his creation: the costumes are all white, the instruments are all bowed, the harmony is flat and enchanted. BFO musicians guide us through this exquisite 20th-century masterpiece.
Musicians of the Budapest Festival Orchestra
oboe soloist Victor Aviat
first violins
Daniel Bard
Péter Kostyál
Gyöngyvér Oláh
Gábor Sipos
second violins
Eszter Lesták Bedő
Györgyi Czirók
Levente Szabó
Zsolt Szefcsik
violas
Ágnes Csoma
Zoltán Fekete
Nikoletta Reinhardt
cellos
György Kertész
Kousay Mahdi
double bass
Csaba Sipos
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Domenico Cimarosa
Concerto for oboe and strings in C major
Introduction
Cheerful
Sicilian
Allegrogiusto
Igor Stravinsky
Apollon Musagète, music from the ballet
First Framework
Naissance d'Apollon
Second Framework
Variations d'Apollon (Apollon et les Muses)
Pas d'action (Apollon et Calliope, Polymnie et Terpsichore)
Variation de Calliope
Variation de Polymnie
Variation de Terpsichore
Variations d'Apollon
Pas de deux (Apollon et Terpsichore)
Coda (Apollon et les Muses)
Apothéose
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It happens sometimes to enter the realm of light and harmony, enveloped from a smiling grace.
It is time to dance with the sun god and the Muses. Memorable notes bubble in the air: dry, cold, clear and burning like an extra-dry champagne.
to said by Alberto Savinio, Apollon Musagète is perhaps Stravinsky's most highly inspired score. A thousand miles away from the typographical deconstructions en blanc et noir à la Apollinaire or the blunt provocations à la Djagilev that peer at us with oblique glances.
At the height of 1928 a return to classicism, filtered through the sulfurous Cocteau or Picasso's theatrical picnics, is welcome. Now Stravinsky is at his most authentically Greek moment. Balanchine, ballet choreographer, was not wrong when he said that "with its discipline and the dominance it implied, its sustained unity of tone and feeling, the score was a revelation."
Basted for string instruments (with that "multisonora euphony" that pivots on the melodic principle), these pages enchant with their sweetness and radiance. Sugellate from a solemn Apothéose that reaffirms the exact perimeter of the myth of the ordering god of time, who illuminates life and lends beauty to the works of men.
Iván Fischer realized his dream when he founded the Budapest Festival Orchestra in 1983 together to Zoltán Kocsis. Thanks to its innovative approach to music and the unstinting dedication of its musicians, the BFO has become the youngest ensemble to enter the top ten symphony orchestras in the world. In addition to to Budapest, the orchestra regularly performs at some of the most important concert venues on the international music scene and is also featured on international streaming platforms. Since its inception, the BFO has been awarded from "Gramophone," the prestigious British music magazine, three times: in 1998 and 2007, the magazine's jury awarded the BFO the prize for the best recording, while in 2022, thanks to public votes, it was named Orchestra of the Year. The BFO's most important achievements are related to Mahler: the recording of Symphony No. 1 was nominated for a Grammy Award. In addition to its recording successes and acclaimed tours, the BFO has also become known to internationally through a series of particularly original concerts. The Autism-friendly Cocoa Concerts, Surprise Concerts - also appreciated at the London Proms -, music marathons, youth-oriented Midnight Music performances, outdoor concerts to Budapest, free Community Weeks, and the Bridging Europe Festival, organized in cooperation with Müpa Budapest - are all unique events to their own way. Another unique feature of the Orchestra is that its members regularly sing during concerts. Each year the BFO, in cooperation with the Iván Fischer Opera Company, Müpa Budapest, the Vicenza Opera Festival and Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, stages an opera production. Performances have been invited to New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival and Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie; in 2013, The Marriage of Figaro topped New York Magazine's ranking of the year's best classical music events. The Vicenza Opera Festival, founded from Iván Fischer, debuted in fall 2018 at the Teatro Olimpico.
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Star Catcher
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Barbara Hannigan
