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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS: Live Highlights – The Best Live Recordings from the Hungaroton Archive

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The magic of live recordings comes from the thrill in the concert hall, or the audience bursting into wild applause. Our list is a selection of the legendary concerts in Budapest of internationally noted performers: the first concert of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, János Ferencsik’s last concert, Leonard Bernstein’s guest performance, one of Otto Klemperer’s performance at the opera house, concerts by Lazar Berman, Zoltán Kocsis, and Fischer Annie, the 1982 operatic production of Parsifal, and the final of the 1984 International Béla Bartók Choir Competition come to life on the recordings.

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Live highlights tracklist

00:00 Parsifal, Act 1: Prelude
Composer: Richard Wagner
Performer: Hungarian Opera Orchestra, János Ferencsik

12:38 Symphony No. 40, K. 550: III. Menuetto. Allegretto
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer

16:36 Symphonie fantastique: V. Dream of a witches’ Sabbath
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Performer: Hungarian State Orchestra, János Ferencsik

26:33 Venezia e Napoli: Tarantella
Composer: Ferenc Liszt
Performer: Zoltán Kocsis

33:10 Fantasie, Op. 17: Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen – Im Legendenton
Composer: Robert Schumann
Performer: Annie Fischer

45:29 Toccata, Op. 7
Composer: Sergey Prokofiev
Performer: Lazar Berman

49:54 Lohengrin, Act 3: In fernem Land
Composer: Richard Wagner
Performer: Hungarian Opera Orchestra, József Simándy, Otto Klemperer

56:49 Four small prayers of Saint Francis of Assisi
Composer: Francis Poulenc
Performer: Coro A. Illersberg, Tullio Ricabon

1:01:05 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106: II. Allegro
Composer: Béla Bartók
Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein

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