Concert, music

Prima donnas
KLÁRA KOLONITS
Festive gala concert with Hungarian and English surtitles

Season Ticket ‘Sapszon’

Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, Söndörgő is Müpa Budapest’s Ensemble of the Season, which means it will be giving several concerts that break with tradition in the course of the 2025-26 season. Among these will be an evening founded on international collaboration that features three outstanding musicians from the world-renowned progressive jazz-funk-fusion band Snarky Puppy: Michael League, Jay Jennings, and Chris Bullock.

Bea Palya’s series entitled “My Silks” has been running with great success since 2015. At these concerts, where she also performs with her excellent band, Palya always introduces a female vocalist less familiar to the Hungarian audience. The events focus on bridging musical worlds and the meeting of two voices, as the artists perform both their solo material and together in the form of duets.

Approx until: 9.20 pm

Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828):
G-dúr szonáta, D 894
A-dúr zongoraötös “A pisztráng”, D 667
Carol Anton FODOR művei

Somlai Petra – fortepiano
Ensemble Variabile

STRAUSS / CZIFFRA / SCHÖNBERG / SCHUBERT / LISZT // Balázs / Keller Quartet
Kamarakoncert

Strauss–Cziffra: A denevér – parafrázis
Strauss–Schönberg: Kaiser-Walzer, op. 437
Schubert–Liszt: Ave Maria Schubert: Erlkönig
Schubert: Pisztrángötös

Michael Mayo’s family legacy and natural talent paved the way for him to blossom as an artist and eventually achieve global fame. As the third vocalist to graduate from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, he has worked alongside the institute’s founder, Herbie Hancock, as well as with Kneebody, Christian Sands and Gretchen Parlato.

Twenty-five years ago, four highly skilled French musicians decided to take the freedom of jazz and the pulsating sound of funk, and shape them into an entirely new concept by exploiting the possibilities offered by electronica. The experiment proved successful, and Electro Deluxe was born in Paris. Later, courtesy of American singer James Copley, the band discovered new vistas to explore.

A Magyar Rádió Gyermekkórusának családi programja

Tavaszi koncertünk témája: Babar, a kiselefánt története

Budafoki Dohnányi Zenekar
Előad és vezényel: Hollerung Gábor

MW Afternoons - Concert

Running time 2 hours including one interval.
Original Language; Hungarian, English an same-language Surtitle.

Antonín Dvořák: h-moll csellóverseny No.2. op.104. (Tomasz Máté)
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Pjotr Iljics Csajkovszkij: Részletek a Hattyúk tava és a Csipkerózsika balett zenéiből

Season Ticket ’Lehel’

A 29-year-old female bass player from India. These few words are enough for most people to immediately think of Mohini Dey. Despite her young age, pages could be filled listing all the artists and festivals she has performed with and at since the age of nine. It was her father, also a bass player, who started her on her professional path, a journey which has so far brought her into contact with Steve Vai, Zakir Hussain, Quincy Jones, Vinnie Colaiuta, and Gergő Borlai.

Season Ticket ’Variations on Chamber Music’

Approx until: 9.30 pm

Klasszikustól a szvingig
Gilles Apap

BACH / MESSIAEN / LIGETI / BEETHOVEN // Kodály Kórus / Keller

J. S. BACH: Ricercar a 6 (A Musikalischen Opferből, Webern feldolgozásában)
MESSIAEN: Les Offrandes oubliées
LIGETI: Lux Aeterna
BEETHOVEN: 9. szimfónia, op. 125

Csajkovszkij: Rómeó és Júlia nyitányfantázia
Beischer-Matyó Tamás: Quaint Dances
Prokofjev: V. szimfónia

Budafoki Dohnányi Zenekar
Vezényel: Wei-Chung Chen

Symphonic Scale, Chamber Spirit – Season Finale Concert 

Program:
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97 (“Rhenish”)
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre – Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music

Robert Schumann
3. (Esz-dúr, „Rajnai”) szimfónia, Op. 97

Szünet

Richard Wagner
A walkür – Wotan búcsúja és tűzvarázs

A koncert az Iván mesél sorozat része.

2026. május 16-án újra Budapestre érkezik a The Boogie Woogie Show. A több mint másfél évtizedes múltra visszatekintő koncertprodukció ezúttal is élőben mutatja be a boogie woogie műfaj karakteres hangzását és energiáját.

Anno Sacri – Baroque Evenings

Ne hagyja ki a varázslatos zenei estét, amelyen a Harry Potter-filmek leghíresebb dallamai és dalai csendülnek fel. Az egyedülálló zongoraműsorban az ötszörös Oscar-díjas zeneszerző, John Williams filmdalai mellett Patrick Doyle, Nicolas Hooper és az Oscar-díjas zeneszerző, Alexandre Desplat művei is felcsendülnek, és a Harry Potter-zene legjavát kínálják.

Joanne Lunn – szoprán
Tim Mead – kontratenor
James Gilchrist – tenor
Neal Davies – basszus

Purcell Kórus
Orfeo Zenekar (korhű hangszereken)
vezényel: Bart van Reyn

Many people were surprised when, after a successful two-year streak during which they won the A38 talent competition known as Talentométer and conquered stages across Europe, including Müpa Budapest, makrohang split up. They then caused another, more pleasant surprise with the news in 2023 that they would be reviving what they themselves call their “jazz for metalheads” sound.

The dice and the stopwatch will be coming out again at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall as it hosts another round of musical ‘battle’. When we talk about instrumental duels in the Hungarian capital these days, it is no longer necessarily Bach and Marchand, or even Liszt and Thalberg, that we are thinking of, because we have our own riveting concert series right here at Müpa Budapest.

Brahms: Rondo alla zingarese (Szüts Apor átirata)
Liszt: Magyar rapszódia no. 4. (d-moll)
Csajkovszkij: Hattyúk tava – Magyar tánc
Mancusi: Egy nyári nap
Bartók: 1. szvit
Vezényel: Guido Mancusi

Bernstein gyönyörű, fuvolaszólóra és zenekarra írt művét Wagner idillje, majd Borodin fülbemászó dallamoktól hemzsegő II. szimfóniája követi.

It is not exclusively Hungarians that Müpa Budapest honours with the prestigious title of Artist of the Season: foreign musicians, such as the Russian piano virtuoso Denis Matsuev, for instance, have also been distinguished in this way. The prerequisites are obvious: a high level of professional excellence and a fruitful relationship with Müpa Budapest.