Budapest Festival Orchestra - Collegium Vocale Gent - Iván Fischer

It is not the first time that two of Europe's most celebrated ensembles, Collegium Vocale from Ghent and Iván Fischer's Budapest Festival Orchestra, are joining forces. A few years ago their cooperation resulted in a fresh new interpretation of Mendelssohn's theatre music 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. This year the programme includes a twentieth-century masterpiece, Stravinsky's 'Psalm Symphony'. In this work Stravinsky makes a synthesis of several stylistic trends from the first few decades of the twentieth century and achievements from his own work to create an overwhelming ode to Russian Orthodox religious music. The programme also includes a few orchestral and choral works by Béla Bartok, music with which the Budapest Festival Orchestra achieved greatness and which is in its members' blood. The various recordings this orchestra has made of Bartok's orchestral works are generally seen as the definitive version of this repertoire. A must for everyone in whose heart this orchestra or repertoire have a place.