Alma Hernán Benedí & Budapest Festival Orchestra

Having welcomed spring with a concert, the BFO will ring in the summer and conclude its 2024–2025 set of orchestral performances in Budapest with a line-up in the Concertino series led by János Pilz. The first half of the concert will open with Haydn’s Symphony No. 35, intended as a name-day present for Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, followed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s cello concerto, a piece showcasing Baroque traditions, composed by a musician who Haydn himself respected very much. The solo will be performed by Madrid native Alma Hernán Benedí, a winner of the 2024 Sándor Végh Competition, who has already conquered the stages of the Elbphilharmonie and the Musikverein in Vienna. The program continues after the intermission with Janáček’s second important orchestral achievement. The piece reflects the inspiration of Dvořák’s music, but also shows off several exciting elements of what makes the Czech composer’s works so loveable.[BJ1]