The most important class, however, for me and for hundreds of other Hungarian musicians, was the chamber-music class. From about the age of fourteen, and until graduation from the Academy, all instrumentalists except the heavy-brass players and percussionists had to participate in this course. Presiding over it for many years was the composer Leó Weiner, who thus exercised an enormous influence on three generations of Hungarian musicians.

Sir Georg Solti

Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Vocals

12 April 2018

Ágnes Herczku & Friends in the Liszt Academy

The art of Ágnes Herczku is constantly tracked and she most recently received the prestigious Liszt Ferenc Prize, in 2016. The pioneering undertaking she launched in 2007 continues: this is when her album Bartók Béla: Hungarian Folk Songs for Voice and Piano was released. Now Herczku and her friends assist in bringing out this sharp contour not only through the intonation of folk singing but also with a new idea: the arrangement for cimbalom of works originally written for piano.

Photo: Róbert Bácsi