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classical music, opera, theatre
Kurtág 100 | Husmann – Aimard – Szűcs – Fenyő – Keller – Concerto Budapest
20 February 2026 Friday
7:30 pm - 10 pm
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Müpa coproduction

Ticket prices

5 900 - 22 900 HUF

The discounts of the Müpa+ membership programme will be applied for this performance, and we also credit membership points.

Conductor:

András Keller

Featuring:

soprano Maria Husmann
piano Pierre-Laurent Aimard
viola Máté Szűcs
cello László Fenyő
Concerto Budapest

György Kurtág

Petite musique solennelle – En hommage à Pierre Boulez 90

György Kurtág

Double Concerto, Op. 27, No. 2

Beethoven

String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major (orchestral version) – V. Cavatina

György Kurtág

Movement for viola and orchestra

Bartók

Piano Concerto No. 3, SZ 119, BB 127

György Kurtág

Die Stechardin – world-premiere

This festive concert by Concerto Budapest, conducted by former Kurtág student András Keller and featuring world-class soloists, presents a cross-section of the 100-year-old György Kurtág's oeuvre. The program includes the viola concerto movement composed in the style of Bartók and premiered in 1955, which will enter into dialogue with Bartók's piano concerto written ten years earlier. The concert will also feature the strikingly beautiful cello-piano double concerto from the late 1980s, one of Kurtág's most significant mature works, which will dovetail with the Beethoven string quartet movement that was most important to Kurtág. This will be followed by the world premiere of the single-act opera Die Stechardin. Composed between 2023 and 2025, this monodrama for solo soprano is a refined, sensitive monologue by the late 18th-century German polymath Georg Christoph Lichtenberg to his young lover who died prematurely – a message from the afterlife and a true masterpiece of old age.

The event is taking place as part of the Kurtág 100 programme series organised by the BMC and presented by Müpa Budapest.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest, Budapest Music Center

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