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Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra

Iván Fischer, Kirill Gerstein
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Sat 21.11.2026 – 20:00
Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerpen
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Sat 21.11.26
20:00
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A tree on stage, a swallow in flight, and a brook meandering through the evening’s score: the Budapest Festival Orchestra presents a sublime tribute to the natural world. Under the visionary leadership of its founder, Iván Fischer, this world-class ensemble combines musical liberty with profound artistic insight. In Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus, orchestral textures interweave with birdsong from the far north – fragile, ethereal, and moving. Kirill Gerstein, a soloist of immense intellectual rigour and lyricism, brings a surprising transparency to Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto. The evening culminates in Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, a timeless homage to the earth. Rather than a calculated manifesto, this concert is an authentic gesture: music as pure laudatio, brought to life with the daring, imagination, and humanity for which this orchestra is internationally revered.

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Programme

Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra

Bartók Concerto for Piano No. 3

Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F major, Opus 68, 'Pastoral'

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Free introduction at 7:15 p.m (in Dutch)

Performers

Ivan Fischer

conductor

Kirill Gerstein

piano

Budapest Festival Orchestra

orchestra

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