I Musici di Roma: Budapest Spring Festival

About the Event

The Ensemble I Musici di Roma and the flutist Magali Mosnier will perform works by Vivaldi at this year's Budapest Spring Festival.

For many decades now, audiences have come to expect an impeccable, characteristic and lively sound from I Musici di Roma. The orchestra has earned worldwide admiration for a style that transcends fashions, and Hungarian audiences have also had many an opportunity to be enchanted, thanks among others to performances at the Budapest Spring Festivals.

Following one of the latter occasions, a critic wrote: “this tone is round, sweet and glows with a warm light, proving not only that the performers play splendid instruments, but also that recording sessions and tours are still no mere routine for them: they still enjoy playing music.” Italian Baroque music can be considered home turf for the orchestra, and when they put Vivaldi scores on the stands, the audience will start breathing in Italian. This year’s Budapest concert will no doubt be marked by a particularly glowing, celebratory mood, because the ensemble will have made its debut sixty years earlier, almost to the day, on 30 March 1952. Most of the founding members were former students of Rome’s Accademia di Santa Ceacilia, who decided to form a chamber orchestra that would work without a conductor. Their choice of name (I Musici) is a faithful expression of their philosophy: the group consists of twelve musicians of equal status, who are both colleagues and friends, and who resolve all technical and interpretational problems without a conductor, on the basis of a jointly fashioned consensual method.