My very favourite orchestra since my youth beside Budapest Festival Orchestra.
1968 summer, Budapest. Concert at the courtyard of Kiscelli Mansion, director: Frigyes Sándor. I was a student then and was there on that concert...
1968 nyara: A Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar koncertje a Kiscelli kastély udvarán, Sándor Frigyes vezényel.
Ezen ott voltam még diák koromban.
(Az Országos Filharmónia műsorfüzetéből.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd2JYdBXTpQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kaNnZFosm8
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The Hungarian Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1963 by former students of the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. The first artistic director of the ensemble was Frigyes Sándor, a renowned professor of the Academy. After his death it was János Rolla, the excellent violinist, who took over the leadership in 1979 as a concert master.
During this nearly half of a century the orchestra have built up an exceptional international reputation which has been underlined by concerts in more than 50 countries, including the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Sydney Opera House, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. They regularly give concerts in almost all countries in Europe, and performed among others at the famous festivals of Ascona, Besançon, Edinburgh, Flandria, Helsinki, Luzern, Montreux, Prades, Salzburg, Santander, Moritzburg, and Menton. They have been invited several times to the United States and Japan, and made trips to South America (including highly successful concerts in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo), India, and China as well.
www.lfkz.hu/en/about-us/artistic-director
www.lfkz.hu/en/about-us/the-orchestra
www.lfkz.hu/en/about-us/members
About Frigyes Sándor: Frigyes Sándor was entrusted with the leading of the Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music in 1948. Following the end of his director’s mandate Frigyes Sándor continued his work as a professor of chamber music from 1958 at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. There he came into contact with students pursuing higher level studies, a team of whom invited him in 1963 to lead a chamber orchestra of them playing together regularly for a while. The model of the chamber orchestra was confessedly the ensemble of I Musici di Roma that had been operating for only a few years then, though the new Hungarian ensemble could captivate a broader repertoire (Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge, works of Stravinsky, Honegger, etc.) than that of the world famous Italian one, owing to the guidance of the conductor. The orchestra performed under the name The Chamber Orchestra of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music for a few years and then they took the name Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra, referring to the Alma Mater. The biography of Frigyes Sándor is inseparable from the history of the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra just as the way of the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra is inseparable from the personality of Frigyes Sándor.
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A Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar 1963-ban alakult a budapesti Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Főiskola végzős növendékeiből. Első zeneigazgatójuk Sándor Frigyes, a Zeneakadémia legendás professzora volt, akinek a halála után, 1979-ben, Rolla János kiváló hegedűművész vette át a zenekar irányítását.
Fél évszázados működésük során nemzetközi hírnévre tettek szert, több mint ötven országban adtak koncertet, és felléptek a new york-i Carnegie Hallban, a tokiói Suntory Hallban, a sydney-i Operaházban, a párizsi Théatre de la Ville-ben, valamint az amszterdami Concertgebouw-ban is. Rendszeresen hangversenyeznek Európa szinte minden országában: felléptek többek között Ascona, Besançon, Edinburgh, Flandria, Helsinki, Luzern, Montreux, Prades, Salzburg, Santander és Moritzburg, Menton híres fesztiváljain. Többször is meghívták az együttest az Egyesült Államokba és Japánba, de eljutottak Dél-Amerikába (melynek során többek között Buenos Aires és Sao Paulo hangversenytermeiben játszottak nagy sikerrel), Indiában és Kínában is.
www.lfkz.hu/hu/rolunk/muveszeti-vezeto
www.lfkz.hu/hu/rolunk/a-zenekar
A legendás Sándor Frigyesről: lfze.hu/nagy_tanarok-hires_regi_tanitvanyok/110