The Day of Listening at the Budapest Music Center

Six concerts across one Sunday, moving between the concert hall and the Opus Jazz Club. Kurtág, Bach, Martinů, Hindemith and Strauss, played by musicians who step out as soloists in one hour and sit in the orchestra the next.

About the event

Concerto Budapest has run the festival since 2015 under its artistic director András Keller, and it sets out to put several generations of Hungarian composers in front of an audience in a single day. The concerts are programmed as one long sequence rather than six separate bills, so the pieces answer each other and take their character from what came before. Soloists, chamber players and the full orchestra are drawn from the same pool of musicians, the Keller Quartet and Concerto Budapest among them, and the singers include the mezzo Dorottya Láng. Composers come to hear each other's work and talk to the audience about the premieres. Each concert is ticketed on its own, with a reduction for buying all six together.

Dates and times

• Sunday 15 Novemberconcerts at 11:00, 13:30, 15:00, 16:30, 18:00 and 20:00

Getting there