Hungarian folk dance is enjoying renewed popularity thanks to the television talent show “Felszállott a páva”. Researching and bringing to the stage our dance and musical traditions in their original form has always been the basis of creative endeavours by the artists of the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble. Here, we are invited on a journey of rediscovery of the treasures of Hungarian folk art tradition; its striking traditional costumes, its enchanting folk melodies and the inimitable virtuos...

L’homme armé – a familiar medieval melody that Levente Gyöngyösi and János Vajda each quote in their works. Translated as 'The Armed Man', in this concert it refers to men armed with marvellous voices: the Honvéd Male Choir. Joining them from the Honvéd Ensemble family the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble to perform a spectacular choreography from Kossuth Prize-winner Zoltán Zsuráfszky set to László Tolcsvay's Testamentom. The beautiful symphonic world will be conjured up by the Dohnányi Orches...