Budapest’s unique musical fountain on Margaret Island returned – here is its program + VIDEOS
Spring is here, so the musical fountain of Margaret Island, the heart of Budapest, restarted this weekend and welcomes everybody with lovely Hungarian and international melodies.
According to fokert.hu, 154 nozzles create the different figures featuring the international and Hungarian hit songs and melodies the fountain plays every hour from 11 am to 9 pm. Furthermore, in the evenings, you can watch short films projected onto the water curtain.
Below you can find the musical program of the fountain with some videos:
11:00 – Music for children
Wolf Kati: Vuk dala
Halász Judit: A cinege cipellője
100 Folk Celsius: Miki Manó
Frozen – Let it go
Koncz Zsuzsa: Micimackó
Napoleon Boulevard: Legyetek jók, ha tudtok
Auli’i Cravalho: How far I’ll Go (Vaiana)
Shakira: Try Everything (Zootropolis)
12:00
Bizet: Carmen – Habanera
Brahms: Hungarian dances – No. 1
Liszt: Liebestraum
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
13:00
Rebecca Ferguson: I Hope
Michael Bublé: Feeling Good
Guns N’ Roses: Sweet Child O’ Mine
Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild
14:00
Johann Strauss: Radetzky-Marsch
Johann Strauss Jr: Blue Danube Waltz
Vivaldi: Four Seasons – Spring
Verdi: Nabucco – Slave chorus
15:00
Calvin Harris–Sam Smith: Promises
Paddy and the Rats: Pilgrim on the Road
Herman’s Hermit: No Milk Today
Andrea Bocelli: Time to Say Goodbye
16:00 – Music for children
Wolf Kati: Vuk dala
Halász Judit: A cinege cipellője
100 Folk Celsius: Miki Manó
Frozen – Let it go
Koncz Zsuzsa: Micimackó
Napoleon Boulevard: Legyetek jók, ha tudtok
Auli’i Cravalho: How far I’ll Go (Vaiana)
Shakira: Try Everything (Zootropolis)
17:00
Bizet: Carmen – Habanera
Brahms: Hungarian dances – No. 1
Liszt: Liebestraum
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
18:00
Rebecca Ferguson: I Hope
Michael Bublé: Feeling Good
Guns N’ Roses: Sweet Child O’ Mine
Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild
19:00 – Songs about Budapest
Johnny K. Palmer: Margitszigeti fák (Margaret Island trees)
Caramel: 1873
Király Viktor: Király utca (Király Street)
Benji: Bárhol járok (Wherever I go)
Keresztes Ildikó: Ahol a város őrzi a Dunát (Where the city protects the Danube)
New Level Empire: BP
Radics Gigi: Budapest szerelem (Budapest love)
20:00
Calvin Harris–Sam Smith: Promises
Paddy and the Rats: Pilgrim on the Road
Herman’s Hermit: No Milk Today
Andrea Bocelli: Time to Say Goodbye
Johann Strauss: Radetzky-Marsch
Johann Strauss Jr: Blue Danube Waltz
Vivaldi: Four seasons – Spring
Verdi: Nabucco – Slave chorus
21:00
Bizet: Carmen – Habanera
Brahms: Hungarian dances No. 1
Rebecca Ferguson: I Hope
Michael Bublé: Feeling Good
Andrea Bocelli: Time to Say Goodbye
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Guns N’ Roses: Sweet Child O’ Mine
Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild
Film: Great Hungarians (Nagy magyarok)
Johann Strauss: Radetzky-Marsch
Johann Strauss Jr: Blue Danube Waltz
Calvin Harris–Sam Smith: Promises
Paddy and the Rats: Pilgrim on the Road
Vivaldi: Four Seasons – Spring
Liszt: Liebestraum
Film: Budapest tánclépésben (‘Budapest dances’)
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Source: fokert.hu
As with many fountains, if you sit there for a while watching the water and listening to the music near this one, it induces a need to pee. Then you find there are absolutely no toilets near by. A very uncomfortable experience.