Michael Volle & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: Béla Bartók National Hall

About the Event

Experience classical music like never before in this astonishing performance of masterworks by Bach at Budapest's remarkable Béla Bartók National Hall.

For a single night, the hall will transform into a church so that we may better experience Bach's cantatas.
Church cantatas sought ‐and still seek‐ to use art to improve the spiritual lives of believers: the music was thought to elevate and deepen self‐awareness, inspiring hope and repentance through its soul‐stirring beauty and truth.
This purpose should be kept in mind when listening to the outstanding German baritone, Michael Volle, and his accomplished partner, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, in their carefully crafted programme exclusively comprised of Bach cantatas (and one motet). In its 36‐year existence, the orchestra has performed everything from the world of Early Music and shared the stage with the greatest soloists and conductors from Cecilia Bartoli to René Jacobs.