While visiting a YouTube recording of “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) performed by the piano genius Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989), I recalled listening a few years back to a ...
Is there another piece of music as gloriously, defiantly life affirming as Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra? I’m often surprised, in fact, at what an emotional experience it can be. For behind its ...
After an acclaimed debut UK tour in 2022, Thursday night saw a return engagement for the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra: not, at present, Hungary’s most fêted ensemble but one that, on this form ...