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.
16 November 2019, 19.30-22.00
Grand Hall
kamara.hu – Journey by Moonlight
kamara.hu/4 – Wandering 
Presented by Liszt Academy
Chamber Music Festival of the Liszt Academy
J. S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 – excerpts
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49
intermission
Kodály: Hegyi éjszakák I. (Mountain Nights)
Liszt: Elegie No. 1
Bartók: Twenty-seven Two- and Three-Part Choruses, BB 111 – Don't Leave me, Wandering
Liszt: Elegie No. 2
Kodály: Esti dal (Evening Song)
Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, BB 115
Artistic directors: Izabella Simon and Dénes Várjon
Henning Kraggerud, András Keller, János Pilz (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras, Miklós Perényi (cello), Máté Szűcs (viola), Dénes Várjon, Izabella Simon (piano), Andrea Vigh (harp), Zoltán Rácz, Aurél Holló (percussion)
Cantemus Choir Nyíregyháza (conductor: Dénes Szabó)
The Grand Hall concert of the Liszt Academy’s chamber music festival conjures up virtually all the characters from the Antal Szerb novel Journey by Moonlight. The programme from Bach to Bartók lays out a good few of the complex emotions boiling in the novel’s characters. The Art of Fugue, the musical equivalent of God’s perfection, order and purity, depicts the figure of Ervin. The fairies of Midsummer Night’s Dream, the fairy tale world of the Ulpius siblings appear in the scherzo of the Mendelssohn trio featuring the struggle between darkness and light, while the Bartók and Kodály choirs alternately performing late Liszt works depict Mihály continuously corresponding with his home or wandering through Italy, Erzsi who gathers secrets by night, János and many others. Liszt’s works revolve around one of the central themes of the novel, death, and to top it all, Venice is also evoked in La lugubre gondola. Finally, the Bartók piece rounding off the concert hides within it one of the composer’s most beautiful examples of ‘nocturne’.
Presented by
Liszt Academy Concert Centre
Tickets:
HUF 1 900, 2 900, 3 900, 4 900