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.

19 April 2020, 19.30-22.00
Grand Hall
Orchestra in the Centre
Denis Matsuev & Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin
Presented by Liszt Academy
Cancelled
Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K. 136
Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22
Denis Matsuev (piano)
Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin
There is an unusual gravestone in Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. It comprises five lines inscribed in the centre; then fermata over a whole rest, over a fortississimo. Perhaps it would not be possible to find a better way of signifying the fate of Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998). He came from a German-Jewish family (thus the sch at the beginning of his name), but he spent his life in the Soviet Union. A musician desirous of new ways, who although not harmed by the authorities, was not loved by them either. Instead, he was merely tolerated, which made him an authority for the younger generations. From his very varied oeuvre, the audience has the chance to get acquainted with a piano concerto with string orchestra accompaniment written in 1979 in a performance by the native of Irkutsk pianist phenomenon. The world knows him as a multifaceted musician, however he is primarily a devotee of Romantic composers, which is why we can expect his Schnittke interpretation to be very special. The pensive, sad, sometimes wildly impulsive music is finely counterbalanced by one of Mozart’s most beautiful and energetic divertimentos, and Dvořák’s five-movement string serenade.
Presented by
Liszt Academy Concert Centre
Tickets:
HUF 7 900, 8 900, 9 900, 10 900