Featuring: László Fassang – organ Handel: Water Music – Suite No. 3 Handel: Concerto Grosso in B flat major, op. 6, No. 7 J. S. Bach: Organ Concerto in D minor (based on BWV 146 and 188) György Orbán: Album Leaves for Count Rasumovsky Haydn: Symphony in A major (“Tempora mutantur”), Hob. I:64 The Budapest Strings chamber orchestra was founded in 1977 by graduate year students from the Budapest Academy of Music. In 1982 they won the Belgrade International Chamber Music Competition which established their reputation. From 1983 they began giving concert series at the Academy of Music and since 1995 organize in Fertőd-Eszterháza each year the International Haydn Festival. Besides Europe they have regularly performed in the United States, South America and Japan and are regular guests at festivals in Austria, Italy, Great-Britain, Belgium and Poland. The internationally renowned ensemble has worked with such distinguished soloists as e. g. András Ágoston, Béla Drahos, Péter Frankl, Friedrich Reinhold, Irena Grafenauer, Jenő Jandó, Zoltán Kocsis, Lajos Lencsés, György Pauk, Miklós Perényi and Josef Suk. The orchestra has so far made nearly sixty records: among their more ambitious projects has been the world première recording of all Johann Christian Bach’s sinfonia concertante works, as well as a series of Vivaldi concertos and orchestral pieces. The orchestra won the Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 1991 and the artistic director of the 17 musicians is the Kossuth and Liszt Prize winning cellist Károly Botvay who also teaches at the Academy of Music. The concert master is Liszt Prize winning violinist Béla Bánfalvi who is also a professor at the Academy of Music.

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