The BFO will also play Mahler?s Symphony No. 1 on the tour on September 16-20. The piece was a big hit at the Budapest Mahler Festival.
The first stop of the short tour will be Ghent, where the orchestra will perform before the Mahler and the Orbán works as well as Liszt?s Totentanz, with the pianist Dejan Lazic.
From Belgium the orchestra will travel to Germany to perform at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn on Saturday.
The last stop of the tour will be a concert in the Verdi Hall of the Conservatory of Milan. The orchestra will perform as part of the MITO Festival, organised by Milan and Turin.
Upon their return to Budapest, the BFO will record Mahler?s Symphony No. 1 in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall on September 21-23. The recording will be published as part of the Channel Classics series in the second half of 2012.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
