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Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
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Sebastian Weigle and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
The members of any orchestra feel most confident playing under the batons of conductors who know from personal experience the ins and outs of performing instrumental music. And this is exactly the extra bit of expertise possessed by the German horn player-turned-conductor Sebastian Weigle, who also earned the respect of the audience at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall when he took on Rienzi in 2017 and Ein deutsches Requiem in 2020 at the venue. Now he returns to rejoin his collaborator for those memorable concerts, the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. On this evening, Müpa Budapest’s resident ensemble will first accompany Dezső Ránki in performing Brahms’s grand B-flat major piano concerto. It will then play Liszt’s Faust Symphony, which is rich with the ideas of Goethe, together with the Hungarian National Male Choir. The soloist of the evening is the Graz-born heldentenor, Nikolai Schukoff, who in 2009 sang the title role of Parsifal at the Budapest Wagner Days festival, and in 2024 partnered Diana Damrau here at Müpa Budapest.
Program and cast
3 October 2025
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Featuring:
piano: Dezső Ránki
tenor: Nikolai Schukoff
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Hungarian National Male Choir
Program
Brahms:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83
interval
Liszt:
Faust Symphony, S. 108
Palace of Arts Müpa Budapest
When Müpa Budapest, Hungary and its capital's new cultural hub, opened in 2005, it was built to represent more than 100 years of Hungarian cultural history. As a conglomeration of cultural venues, the building has no precedent in 20th century Hungarian architecture and has no peers in the whole of Central Europe.
The creators of this ambitious project, the Trigránit Development Corporation, prime contractor Arcadom Construction and the Zoboki, Demeter and Partners Architectural Office, were driven by the desire to create a new European cultural citadel as part of the new Millennium City Centre complex along the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Danube waterfront. The result is a facility whose construction quality, appearance, functionality and 21st century technological infrastructure makes it ideally suited to productions of the highest standard. The building is also highly versatile and equipped to host performances of any genre and almost any scale.
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