Jordi Savall & Budapest Festival Orchestra

Jordi Savall is at the helm of the Budapest Festival Orchestra again! This time, the living legend of early music will be conducting a production centered around the themes of natural elements and the furies, performed on historic instruments by the  Baroque Ensemble of the BFO founded in 2011. The program showcases three musical milestones and three personalities of the 18th century. The protagonist of the first half of the evening is water. The Händel suite was first performed on the Thames, and Telemann’s piece celebrates the source of Hamburg’s economy, the river Elbe. The two ten-movement baroque suites are followed by Gluck’s ballet — at the end of the well-known story, Don Juan pays for his earthly sins. With a concert extolling the forces of nature, Savall aims to remind us that despite the environmental crisis, with collective effort, our planet can still be saved.