UK IRELAND Tour 2025

Between November 29 and December 7, Concerto Budapest will perform in five cities with three different programs, featuring pianist Paul Lewis as soloist. The orchestra will appear in some of the most prestigious concert halls in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including Dublin, Coventry, Birmingham, London, and Edinburgh.

András Keller considers the tour to be of outstanding significance, with works by Shostakovich, Beethoven, Liszt, and Tchaikovsky on the program.

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 Review by Rebecca Franks on The Times - Thursday December 04 2025

 The Times: "I walked out warmed by their Hungarian fire" 

Under the unflashy direction of Andras Keller, one of Hungary’s leading orchestras played with bags of character at Symphony Hall, Birmingham

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 Review by Ivan Hewett on The Telegraph - 4 December 2025

 This Hungarian orchestra played as if their lives depended on it

 The programme – Beethoven, Shostakovich, Liszt – may have been traditional, but the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra

excelled throughout. You could say the programme offered by this fine Hungarian symphony orchestra was hackneyed. Three warhorses galloped by in succession.

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  Review By Andrew Larkin on Bachtrack.com - 30 November 2025

Concerto Budapest returned to Dublin last night, only two years after their last impressive appearance, and once again proved its  mettle. Under the direction of András Keller, who has led the ensemble since 2007, this century-old orchestra delivered a programme steeped in high-Romantic drama: two C minor masterpieces by Beethoven forming the backbone of the evening, framed by Tchaikovsky and Liszt symphonic poems. 

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  VoxCarnyxs: Identity Matters: Pianist Paul Lewis returns to

   Edinburgh this weekend

  Posted on VOXCARNYXS - 1st December 2025 

That said, Lewis is in Edinburgh this weekend for an Usher Hall concert marking the only Scottish date in a five-city UK/Ireland tour with the idiosyncratic Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, in which he turns his attention back to Beethoven. He’ll perform the Third Piano Concerto under the orchestra’s music director András Keller, who also conducts Tchaikovsky’s symphonic fantasy Francesca da Rimini, Liszt’s Les Preludes and Beethoven’s Symphony No 5.

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 In Tune - Live with Katie Derham - BBC Sounds - 26 November 2025

Katie Derham introduces conductor András Keller who leads Concerto Budapest in their most recent tour. Watch the full interview by clicking HERE!

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 BACHTRACK: The meaning of music: András Keller on

 Concerto Budapest’s UK & Ireland tour

 By Elena Luporini on bachtrack.com - 11 November 2025

Can music have a meaning? Should music have a meaning? Anyone who has so much as opened a book about classical music, or   distractedly read some programme notes, has probably encountered this question. Ever since Liszt and Wagner coined two notorious terms – ‘symphonic poem’ and ‘absolute music’ – the ebb and flow of music history has left a variety of opinions on the shore. In the case of András Keller, founder of the Keller Quartet and Chief Conductor of Concerto Budapest, the answer is unequivocable: music not only can, but must have a message – and it is a musician’s task to convey it, or bring it to light when it is not immediately clear.