The Honvéd Male Choir and Fidelio have come out with a real surprise for Liszt-fans in the bicentennial year. The unfinished St Stanislaus Oratorio, which is considered as one of Liszt’s last opuses, and which has been available almost exclusively for researchers until now, has been published on CD and was premiered in a magnificent concert on 26 June.

A gala concert hosted by Moscow's Kremlin Palace was held to mark the 200th birth anniversary of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt on 17 June.

Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal will present its performance Sweet Mambo in Budapest's National Theatre on Tuesday night, as a key cultural programme of the Hungarian EU presidency.

Museums all over Hungary will keep their doors open for a night of exhibitions, guided tours and special events on two consecutive Saturdays: on June 18 outside Budapest and on June 24 in Budapest.

A selection from the china collections of Muzej Marton, Croatia's first private museum, will be displayed in the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, opening on June 16 as part of the cultural programmes of the Hungarian EU Presidency.

The Hungarian composer and pianist Gyorgy Szabados, who has been called the father of Hungarian free jazz, died late Friday, aged 71, his family told MTI.

In honour of the Liszt Year, Concerto Budapest gave an exclusive concert, featuring the violin player genius Maxim Fedotov and the old master of conductors Krzysztof Penderecki on 4 June in the Italian Institute. Check out the photo gallery of the concert!

In the Musica Sacra series, the Choir of the National Széchényi Library with Mária Eckhardt conductor and Péter Sirák on organ performed one of Liszt's Trident rite masses, composed in 1865, Missa choralis, organo concitente. Check out the photos of the concert!