Pinchas Zukerman and Budapest Festival Orchestra A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Pinchas Zukerman is one of the most celebrated string musicians of our age, and a brilliant conductor, too. Hungarian audiences have had several chances of enjoying his virtuoso and intimate violin playing, although he has only rarely appeared here as conductor. However, this time the 65-year-old musician will once again step in front of a Budapest audience leading the Budapest Festival Orchestra. The programme runs from Vivaldi to Mendelssohn, and in the opening number, Vivaldi’s Concerto in B major, Zukerman’s wife, cellist Amanda Forsyth, will play at his side in the string section. The concert includes two works by the master of German Romanticism, Max Bruch: Canzone and Adagio on Celtic themes, from the late 19th century. In both pieces the cello is given a virtuoso solo role.