We would like to inform our audience that according to the government decision effective from 11 November 2020, no public events can be held, so we are unable to hold concerts at the Liszt Academy with an audience. However, our audience will not be left without a concert experience, as most of our performances will be held and broadcast online in our Digital Concert Hall, and most of the concerts of the orchestras organizing concert series at the Liszt Academy will also be available online.

22 July 2019, 19.30-22.00
Solti Hall
Festival Academy 2019
Hornung, Gallardo, Popovici...
Presented by Liszt Academy
J. S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079 – Trio Sonata in C minor
Mónika Tóth (violin), Dóra Kokas (cello), Benedek Csalog (flute), Soma Dinyés (harpsichord), Igor Davidovics (lute)
Bartók: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, BB 84
Katalin Kokas (violin), José Gallardo (piano)
Shostakovich: G minor Piano Quintet, Op. 57
Barnabás Kelemen, Sarah Christian (violin), Razvan Popovici (viola), Maximilian Hornung (cello), Dejan Lazić (piano)
Listening to music often means much more than just passively finding delight in beauty; it does not only move us emotionally but also intellectually. Bach definitely enjoyed making himself face considerable mental challenges, in fact, when others made him do so, he would have been eager to complete his task all the more perfectly. While composing the Musical Offering, Frederick the Great acted as his challenger, who gave him a single theme, which in turn Bach re-arranged in thirteen different ways; the highly complex Trio Sonata in C minorsupersedes the rest with its scale and beauty. 20th century composers were often quite pleased to return to these Baroque forms and structures to test their abilities and creativity – for instance, Shostakovich in his heavy, gloomy and war-inspired Piano Quintet in G minor, whose initial movements are called Prelude and Fugue. Even though Bartók’sSonata No. 1 for Violin and Pianowas composed in the time of peace (in 1921) dedicated to the composer’s friend, the violinist Jelly d’Aranyi, it reflects an even more distressed and excruciating emotional state.
Presented by
Festival Academy Budapest
Tickets:
HUF 4 000 (Students/Pensioners: HUF 2000). 25% discount for two or three tickets, 50% discount for four or more tickets.