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The sixth edition of the annual Budapest Mahlerfest will open on September 9th in the Palace of Arts with a concert of the Hamburg Radio Orchestra. The conductor is Michael Gielen, the programme features Jörg Widmann's concert overture "Con brio", Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with Jörg Widmann as soloist and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.4. with Christiane Oelze (soprano) singing the vocal part.
The Budapest Festival Orchestra, resident orchestra of the festival, will give three concerts on September 10th, 11th and 12th in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall under the baton of Iván Fischer, artistic leader of the Mahlerfest. The programme includes a new work by the Hungarian composer, László Melis, commissioned by the Budapest Mahlerfest, as well as Mahler's seldom performed, monumental Symphony No.7. The concerts on September 10th and 11th start at 7.45 p.m., on September 12th at 3.30 p.m.
There will be two exhibitions accompanying the musical events of the festival in the Palace of Arts. The first one entitled "Gustav Mahler and Vienna", comes from Austria with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum. The other one comes from Canada, from the private collection of Péter Fülöp, and presents the most interesting recordings of the two Mahler compositions performed, Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7.
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