Budapest Festival Orchestra: Weber & Mendelssohn listing on Broadway Baby

Discover an evening bursting with drama, mysticism and irresistible folk melodies from three great early 19th-century Romantics.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra and its visionary founder-conductor Ivn Fischer celebrate their 40th anniversary with a programme brimming with drama, mysticism and irresistible folk melodies.

In 1829, composer Felix Mendelssohn set off on a tour of Scotland. The countrys crofts and lochs had a profound effect on a 20-year-old raised on Sir Walter Scotts Romantic novels. He certainly never forgot his twilight visit to Holyrood, even though it took 13 years to finally complete the atmospheric Scottish Symphony it inspired. His Violin Concerto is no less passionate, performed by electrifying Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich.

The concert also turns the spotlight on Mendelssohns devoted sister Fanny. A composer in her own right, her bubbling Schnell fliehen die Schatten der Nacht is played and sung by the orchestra. Weber matches cheerful folk tunes with demonic rumblings in his opera Der Freischtz, and its overture packs quite a punch.

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Budapest Festival Orchestra

Ivn Fischer Conductor

Daniel Lozakovich Violin

Weber Freischtz Overture

Fanny Mendelssohn Schnell fliehen die Schatten der Nacht from Gartenlieder

Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No 3 Scottish

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