Orchestral Concert: Lyadov, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov

About the Event

In this highly‐anticipated concert, hear the sounds of classical music by Lyadov, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov at Budapest's Palace of Arts.

Russian characters emerge at BFO’s concert from three composers who found writing music a hard task. Lyadov was hindered by his own laziness of his few surviving works, the concert features his music depicting nature in a fairy‐tale world. Written in the turbulent year of 1917, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto treats the solo violin as first among equals rather than a dominating virtuoso. Neither critics, nor the audience were overwhelmed by the new work of Rachmaninov: posterity, however, did justice to the composer. The soloist is Alina Ibragimova, praised for her “immediacy and honesty” (The Guardian), whereas the orchestra plays under the baton of BFO’s regular guest conductor, music director of the Deutsches Symphonie‐Orchester Berlin and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Robin Ticciati.