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Now for the eighth year, the world’s eyes once again turn to Hungary and the celebration that is the Festival Academy Budapest. Between July 14 and 23, the 10-day classical chamber music festival will fill the city’s most special venues with music and life
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The Festival Academy Budapest chamber music series, founded by the Hungarian violinists Katalin Kokas and Barnabas Kelemen, is to be held at various venues in the capital from July 16 to 25, including at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, the Budapest Music Centre and the Rumbach Sebestyen Street Synagogue.
Performers include such celebrated musicians as Gidon Kremer with Camerata Baltica, Vilde Frang, Joshua Bell, Patricia Kopatchinszkaja, Kristof Barati, Istvan Vardai and Lilla Horti, among others.
Peter Fekete, the state secretary for culture, told a press conference that people in the cultural sector had made great efforts to keep performance alive online during the pandemic and help others maintain their well-being. The task of artists now is to tempt people out of their homes and give them faith that normality can be restored, he added.
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s
Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four
Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE