Superb pianists stealthily creep into town unobserved so they can choose the chamber music that appeals to them. Win-win for us.

Jerusalem’s International Chamber Music Festival: secret lair of great pianists

Hungarian music: pour it on! A new summer festival in Budapest provides.

Newly-minted Festival Academy Budapest debuts with feisty fare

There’s always more music to be discovered, and Lockenhaus is the place to hear it.

Kagel’s Trios foretell the future of “Terra Nova” at Lockenhaus

As readers may know, Istanbul’s English-language daily newspaper Today’s Zaman was killed by the Turkish government in a hostile takeover on March 4, 2016. As a result, most of my links to that publication were deleted from the central archives in Istanbul. I am in the slow process of retrieving as many as I can from other sources, and have found only a handful of relatively recent reviews.

Ariel, the high-wire sprite from Hell, screeches up a storm in this “Tempest.” Engels’ staging in Budapest has soprano Laure Meloy flying like a fireball of fioritura.

Whimsical “Tempest” takes Budapest by storm

The first of two reviews of Kálmán’s “Duchess” focuses on director Béres’ tinsel-town touch on the updating of the 1928 operetta.

Kálmán’s “The Duchess of Chicago” beguiles Budapest

The second of two reviews of Kálmán’s “Duchess” talks about what a fascinating record of sociological and musical transformations were going on in the 1920s.

An historically rich “Duchess of Chicago” in Budapest

From Ancient Greece to 2016, with cellphones. Can it work?

17th century “L’Orontea” in Budapest goes millennial

In my eighth review for Bachtrack, I was delighted to hear Julian Rachlin score a win with such a winning score!

Budapest Spring Festival opens with rapturous rendition of Bartók’s viola concerto

Two operas at the Erkel Theatre, the second house of the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest: both marvelously staged and sung.

Dohnányi’s “Der Tenor” a star vehicle for Attila Fekete

An “Aida” that could be renamed “Amneris” in Budapest