The Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) has been voted Orchestra of the Year, the news was announced at the Gramophone Awards gala event in London on Tuesday evening. Iván Fischer's ensemble competed with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bavarian State Orchestra, among others, in the competition of the world's most prestigious classical music magazine, and […]

It seems that the exhibition ‘Treasures from Budapest’ at London’s Royal Academy of Arts is a surefire block-buster. Visited by 5,000 people in one weekend, the show proves to be so popular that it might take a European tour next year.