Budapest Festival Orchestra, Gramophone's 2022 Orchestra of the Year, Presents Symphony Night Live Program, October 29

The Budapest Festival Orchestra will perform compositions by Andriessen, Mozart, and Beethoven, as part of the next Symphony Night Live program on October 29, 2022. Streaming video platform Symphony brings together world-class symphonic orchestras, connecting them to a global audience of music lovers eager to discover and enjoy full-length symphonic concerts with supplemental storytelling.

This concert can be viewed as part of Symphony’s Symphony Night Live event, featuring a 
front-row seat and a backstage pass for the full-length performance at Müpa, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall in Budapest. Following the performance, Symphony’s ‘Insiders’ talk-show provides interviews that go behind-the-scenes and in-depth with connoisseurs of classical music, so music lovers can get even more knowledge and insight out of the music they just enjoyed.

“Symphony was created to bridge the best of the best orchestras, bind them together through their beautiful music and cultural richness. Iván Fischer’s Budapest Festival Orchestra accentuates our vision with their innovations to the industry over the past 40 years,” said Founder of Symphony Rob Overman. “Their performance has found a home in Symphony for symphonic music lovers and explorers to enjoy.”

Symphony is carefully uniting some of the world's strongest ensembles to highlight the power and magic of symphonic music, adding new layers and insights to the concert hall. By bundling the world’s leading orchestras on a single platform, Symphony wants to break down barriers between potential audiences and high-caliber orchestras. Other orchestras working with Symphony include the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Zürich, and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra has been awarded Gramophone’s most prestigious award for an orchestra, 2022 Orchestra of the Year. The orchestra was nominated for this award by a jury of experts, and then chosen by the international public from the ten nominees. Under the direction of founder and conductor Iván Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra is admired for its modern innovations and vibrant cultural contributions, which have been present since it was formed in the mid-1980s.

Founder and music director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer is considered one of the most visionary musicians of our time. He has developed several new concert formats and reformed the structure and working method of the symphony orchestra. “We really, honestly, want to serve the community. This is our purpose. That we serve our smaller community at home and the whole world community, which needs culture,” said Fischer. The Budapest Festival Orchestra regularly performs at the most important concert venues of the international music scene from London to New York, from Berlin to Amsterdam and has repeatedly been invited to perform at international festivals such as the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Salzburg Festival and the Edinburgh International Festival. 

The Budapest Festival Orchestra will perform three additional Symphony Night Live events in collaboration with Symphony, on December 30, 2022, February 25, 2023, and March 18, 2023.

symphony.live/en/

About Symphony Media:
Symphony’s is a new video streaming platform with a mission to reach and touch a global audience with the most beautiful symphonic music ever created. Symphony live events go far beyond the performance. ‘Symphony Night Live’ offers an immersive experience with interviews, behind the scenes and other unique content. You can’t get any closer. 

With our original Symphony ‘Legends’ productions, interviews, behind-the-scenes and a wide range of documentaries about composers and conductors, subscribers can expand their knowledge and get even more out of the music.