2009 Budapest Spring Festival set to be a great event.

The major city of Hungary, Budapest will hold the largest cultural event in Hungary, the Budapest Spring Festival, with amazing orchestras, amazing chamber concerts, jazz sessions, contemporary dance performances, cultural film screenings of some of the emminent new artists with a vast number of venues that present these international performers in a way that can only be supplied by this individual historic city.

Budapest was formed from three historic towns joining as one Buda, Obuda and Pest in 1873. The River Danube goes through the middle of the city forming a unique transport route along its length.

Budapest has a long and fascinating history which quickly draws you in as you move around its gorgeous streets. Budapests historic heritage links in well with the Budapest Spring Festival as it is a youthful thriving city attracting a great number of brilliant artists through the years. Seeing the unique value of its traditions it has been able to maintain its magic 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 more than 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 saw the Nigel Kennedy Quintet when they played the Salisbury Festival in the UK and they were fantastic and for those of you who are culturally energised it is well worth travelling to this amazing 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 dissuade you, what I am saying is that Budapest spring Festival is an event that shouldn’t be missed.