Budapest Festival Orchestra & Koor Collegium Vocale Gent . Iván Fischer

Time to celebrate! The Budapest Festival Orchestra is coming to deSingel. Allow yourselves to be enraptured once again by Iván Fischer and his Hungarian cohorts. No other conductor knows how to make a concert hall sizzle. Bartók's 'Music for strings, percussion and celeste' is a part of the core repertoire which brought the orchestra and conductor world fame. Your curiosity may also have been aroused by Arvo Pärt's 'Como cierva sedienta', with the ladies of Collegium Vocale Ghent. This half hour-long drama for chorus and orchestra is quintessential Pärt. However, in Psalms 42 and 43, he changes resolutely to a different musical palette: 'violent and 'riotous' are not normally part of Pärt's vocabulary. To cap it all, in comes Mozart's heavenly 'Vesperae solennes'. Now, it's up to Collegium Vocale Ghent to prove that they rank among the world's greatest chamber choruses - just in case you hadn't already been persuaded.