Budapest Festival Orchestra / Alina Ibragimova / Iván Fischer

In the organizer's words:

Beautiful, wild and erotic

"An overwhelming piece of music with extreme emotions, phenomenally crafted, beautiful, wild and very erotic", was how the British Guardian described the Budapest Festival Orchestra and its founder and chief conductor Iván Fischer's recording of Richard Strauss' "Joseph's Legend" in 2018. The story of the pious Joseph, who is first seduced by the Egyptian court official Potiphar's wife in the palace and then icy coldly betrayed, leaves nothing to be desired musically - not least because Strauss brings out pretty much everything an orchestra has to offer: huge string and wind instruments, several harps, piano, six timpani, castanets and even a roaring wind machine. A sound spectacle for which the Elbphilharmonie's Great Hall provides the ideal acoustics.

Cast

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Alina IbragimovaViolin

ConductorIván Fischer

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major op. 61

-Intermission -

Richard Strauss
Joseph's Legend op. 63

Venue: Elbphilharmonie / Great Hall

Organizer: HamburgMusik