2009 Budapest Spring Festival set to be a fantastic event.
February 7, 2009 by Hanna08 · 6 Comments
The capital city of Hungary, Budapest hosts the largest cultural gathering in Hungary, the Budapest Spring Festival, with fantastic orchestras, amazing chamber concerts, jazz sessions, contemporary dance shows, cultural film screenings of a few of the emminent new artists with a vast number of venues that house these international performers in a way that can only be provided by this unique historic city.
Budapest was created from three historic towns joining together Buda, Obuda and Pest in 1873. The River Danube goes through the middle of the city forming a natural transport route along its length.
Budapest has a rich and engrossing history which easily pulls you in as you meander around its beautiful streets. Budapests historic heritage links in well with the Budapest Spring Festival as it has always been a bustling thriving city attracting many fantastic artists through the years. Seeing the particular worth of its traditions it has been able to maintain its wonder and charm, and is well known as the Queen of the Danube. It has also been called the City of Spas, as there are a dozen spring baths complexes served by over a hundred natural thermal springs.
This 2009 Budapest Spring Festival the theatre section of the Budapest Spring Festival features Hungarian première The Park by Botho Strauss and Puccini’s Turandot, conducted by Péter Oberfrank which will be a performance that is not to be missed out on.
Orchestral concerts include performances by Joshua Bell & the Camerata Salzburg and Oleg Maisenberg & the Kremerata Baltica, while on the jazz front there is the Nigel Kennedy Quintet, featuring the famous English violinist.
I went to see the Nigel Kennedy Quintet when they performed at the Salisbury Festival in the UK and they were brilliant and for those of you who are culturally energised it is well worth going along to this fantastic city and festival.
Obviously if this year you where considering going Gorilla Trekking in the heart of Africa or organising a tailor made holiday in India who am I to stand in your way, what I am spouting is that Budapest spring Festival is an experience that shouldn’t be missed.