Hungary Mozart (selection) and Orff’s Carmina Burana: Soloists, Hungarian State Opera ensembles / Tibor Bogányi (conductor). Budapest Opera House, 6.4.2025. (AK)
Carmina Burana in Budapest proves a full-on theatrical experience
Agnes Kory
Artistic integrity, as well as musicality, was a major feature of this Budapest Strings concert
Hungary Webern, Mendelsohn, Arensky: Gábor Farkas (piano), Budapest Strings / János Pilz (leader). Solti Hall of the Music Academy, Budapest, 4.4.2025. (AK)
London Handel Festival 2025: Apollo e Dafne and The Choice of Hercules is a Thomas Guthrie show of excellence
United Kingdom London Handel Festival 2025 – Apollo e Dafne (HWV122) and The Choice of Hercules (HWV69): Soloists, La Nuova Musica / David Bates (conductor) with New English Ballet Theatre. Shoreditch Town Hall, 27.3.2025. (AK)
It was a privilege to see the heart and soul in The Questors Theatre’s high standard My Fair Lady
United Kingdom Loewe/Lerner, My Fair Lady: Soloists, The Questors Theatre Dancers, Chorus and Orchestra / Tom Arnold (musical director), The Questors Theatre, Ealing, 28.3.2025. (AK)
Prokofiev from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra was something to cherish
United Kingdom Prokofiev: Igor Levit (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 11.3.2025. (AK)
Marios Papadopoulos’s musical dialogue with his Oxford Philharmonic at the Barbican
United Kingdom Coleridge-Taylor, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky: Martha Argerich (piano), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 24.2.2025. (AK)
Puzzling BBC presentations on Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
Agnes Kory considers the BBC’s programming on Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 Full credit to the BBC for giving its all to commemorate the International Holocaust Memorial Day which on 27th January this year marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of the many BBC programmes, I attended two and watched one on BBC2. … Read more
Top quality performances and faultless early music style in Archangelo’s The Christmas Story
United Kingdom Various – The Christmas Story: Arcangelo / Jonathan Cohen (artistic director). Wigmore Hall, London, 15.12.2024. (AK)
