Budapest Festival Orchestra

Could we ever tire of the warmth-exuding music of Haydn and Mozart, the energetic way in which Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts the orchestra, or the sound of Ilya Gringolts’s Stradivarius? Those who have already heard the Viennese Classicism specialist conduct, or just talk about, the music of the two Austrian masters will know that his series with the Festival Orchestra can only be described using words such as freshness, dynamism, sparkle, surprise and creativity. This concert is framed by a rather fiery Haydn symphony and another paying tribute to a deceased friend. Between the two, one of the most popular violin concertos, Mozart’s virtuoso piece, is performed with solo by Ilya Gringolts, a former student of Itzhak Perlman and first violinist of the Gringolts Quartet, who plays the instrument called the ‘Kiesewetter’.