Budapest Festival Orchestra

Conductor Iván Fischer leads the esteemed Budapest Festival Orchestra in two programs that spotlight Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The first concert features Bartók’s rarely-heard complete music for the ballet pantomime The Wooden Prince (1914-1917), along with Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with pianist Alexander Toradze.  For the second concert, guest artists Ildikó Komlósi, mezzo-soprano and László Polgár, bass join the Orchestra for Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle; works by R. Stauss round out the program.

Friday, February 8, 2008 at 8:00pm

Avery Fisher Hall

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Iván Fischer, conductor

Alexander Toradze, piano

Rachmaninoff: Vocalise

Rachmaninoff: Rapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Bartók: The Wooden Prince (complete music)

A rare opportunity to hear the complete music to Bartók’s ballet The Wooden Prince, performed by the premier orchestra of the composer’s homeland

Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 3:00pm

Avery Fisher Hall

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Iván Fischer, conductor

Ildikó Komlósi, mezzo-soprano

László Polgár, bass

R. Strauss:  Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

R. Strauss:  First Waltz Sequence, from Der Rosenkavalier

Bartók:  Bluebeard's Castle

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