We would like to inform our audience that according to the government decision effective from 11 November 2020, no public events can be held, so we are unable to hold concerts at the Liszt Academy with an audience. However, our audience will not be left without a concert experience, as most of our performances will be held and broadcast online in our Digital Concert Hall, and most of the concerts of the orchestras organizing concert series at the Liszt Academy will also be available online.

8 November 2019, 19.45-22.00
Grand Hall
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Presented by Liszt Academy
Prokofiev – Tchaikovsky
Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91 – Overture
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet – Suite, Op. 64a and Op. 64b (excerpts)
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Lahav Shani
Three works that at one time were shunned and yet today rank among the world’s most famous works. Two guest artists who even in their youth were playing together with the biggest names in the business. One unforgettable Russian recital. What 50 or so years ago was considered technically unplayable, today constitutes a part of the core repertoire. Leopold Auer, to whom Tchaikovsky dedicated his violin concerto, deemed the work too difficult, while commissioning theatres shrank from Prokofiev’s opera and ballet music. The beautiful, melodic overture of the nearly 4-hour-long opera War and Peace evokes a sense of peace, being both heroic and lyrical. Tchaikovsky sketched out his violin concerto (1878) in just 11 days and wrote it in under two weeks. The world’s most famous and complex violin solo (according to some) is performed by Renaud Capuçon, at one time concertmaster for Claudio Abbado, under the baton of 30-year-old Israeli conductor Lahav Shani. The ballet music for Romeo and Juliet ranks as one of Prokofiev’s most richly embroidered works. Cheated out of a premiere, the composer decided to recycle various movements from the ballet in three suites for public performance.
Presented by
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Tickets:
HUF 3 000, 5 100, 6 600, 9 400, 15 300