THE BUDAPEST STRINGS

MUSIC IN THE GARDEN

Concert Master: János Pilz

Artistic Director: Károly Botvay

Featuring: Veronika Harcsa - vocals

Khachaturian: Masquerade, selection - Waltz
Debussy: String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 - Movement 2
Debussy: The Songs of Bilitis
(Pan's Flute, The Hair, The Tomb of the Water-Nymphs)
Martinu: Saltimbanque
Ravel: Don Quichotte a Dulcinée
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Schönberg: Walzer
Gershwin: Lullaby
Gershwin: Someone To Watch Over Me
It Ain't Necessarily So
Do It Again
Duke Ellington: Caravan
In a Sentimental Mood

"The Budapest Strings on the podium perfectly show the ideal model of a small republic."
This metaphor comes from a concert visitor who was incidentally a senior EU official, and was looking for a conference venue a few years ago. In a small town on the Canary Islands, listening to the Budapest Strings concert, he found the place and organized the meeting in Budapest. What convinced him was the fact that all of the musicians were playing with enthusiasm and intensity as if they were playing the piece solo, meanwhile watching the leaders and most of all the concert master.
The story recalled by Károly Botvay, the artistic director, can still seem familiar to visitors of the orchestra's concerts. On this summer evening, they offer the open-minded audience a really colorful program. They invited experimental jazz singer and songwriter Veronika Harcsa to be their soloist. This will not be the first time they will have performed together as they opened this year with a greatly successful joint concert. Now, under the chestnut trees of the Társaskör, they will perform popular late romantic, impressionist and modern classical tunes with jazz evergreens.

Cecília Szőke

Tickets: 3500 Ft

A two-part concert which ends at 10 pm

Held in the Ottó Till Hall in bad weather

A Summer in Óbuda program sponsored by the local government of Óbuda-Békásmegyer