Budapest Festival Orchestra

Continuing traditions, new colors, child prodigy and experienced composers at the fall Concertino concert! This time again, János Pilz has chosen pieces connected in many ways for the program of BFO’s string orchestra series. They range from the Baroque to the Romantic periods, with the composers, styles and forms evoked constantly alluding to each other – back and forth. First Handel paying tribute to Corelli will be followed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who emerged from his father’s shadow with his bold innovations. The second half of the concert will feature an Italianate composition by the sixteen-year-old Mozart, and a work by the thirteen-year-old Mendelssohn, who could brilliantly compose in the style of Mozart. It has now almost become a tradition that the soloist for the concerto in the program will be the winner of the orchestra’s Sándor Végh Competition, and Anett Jóföldi is the proud owner of four such prizes.