Musicians of the Budapest Festival Orchestra & Iván Fischer

We know him as a conductor – but here we encounter him in a different role: as a composer and as primus inter pares, closely connected with his fellow musicians. Experience an extraordinary chamber orchestra session that combines proximity, inspiration, and masterful sound design. For Iván Fischer, this evening also represents the opportunity to show his spiritual connection with the person who once encouraged him to found his own orchestra: Yehudi Menuhin.

Mirella Hagen, soprano

Gergely Csikota, trumpet

Musicians of the Budapest Festival Orchestra

Iván Fischer, conductor

Béla Bartók (1881–1945)

Divertimento for Strings Sz. 113 (1939) 24'

Iván Fischer (1951)

“A German-Yiddish Cantata” (2005) 11'

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

String Octet in E-flat major op. 20 (1825) 34'

70'