“Classics with a Twist” Season Ticket
The “Classical with a Twist” subscription series offers performances that approach classical music from a new perspective and forge exciting connections between literature, theater, and contemporary musical thought. The concerts in this series creatively reinterpret the traditional concert format: music enters into dialogue with text, historical ideas, and new instrumental arrangements.
October 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. Metrum Trio+: Music and the Enlightenment
The concert by the Metrum Trio+ chamber ensemble (Anna Rákóczy – flute, Lajos Rozmán – clarinet, Balázs Kántor – cello) and violist Kata Koppán evokes the Europe of the Enlightenment. The concert program—Mozart’s transcriptions of Bach, Ádám Kondor’s transcriptions of Mozart, trios by Joseph Haydn and Handel, as well as Haydn’s miniatures originally written for mechanical instruments of his time—engages in a dialogue between music and words through the reflections of Zoltán Fleck, a lawyer and sociologist, leaving room for spontaneous associations of ideas and inspiring the audience to further explore the topics raised.
November 21, 2026, 7:30 p.m. Homecoming – A Concert by the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich
Performed by the Munich-based Jewish Chamber Orchestra, this program features a collaborative work by poet Ingeborg Bachmann and composer Hans Werner Henze—both born 100 years ago—a musical theater adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel *The Idiot*, presented in parallel with a Hungarian premiere: a similar reinterpretation of *Fatelessness* in a composition by Judit Varga, based on a text by Lajos Parti Nagy. The central theme of the evening is the psychological kinship between the protagonist of Imre Kertész’s novel and Dostoevsky’s Prince Myshkin, linking the philosophical questions raised by these two literary masterpieces.
December 29, 2026, 7:30 p.m. Happy Island – Eszter Horgas, Klára Würtz, and the Talamba Percussion Ensemble
The long-standing collaboration between the deservedly popular Talamba Percussion Ensemble and flutist Eszter Horgas is joined this time by pianist Klára Würtz, who lives in the Netherlands. Their concert, titled “Happy Island,” is a journey of sorts into the era of French Romanticism and Impressionism, featuring not only Debussy’s work of the same name but also pieces by Ravel, Saint-Saëns, and other contemporary French composers—full of creative ideas and unique musical solutions, at times deviating from the original concept, rearranged, and spiced up “Talambás-style.”
