Zsombor Tóth-Vajna Presented by Liszt Academy

Although Monteverdi never wrote for keyboard instrument, his influence can be traced in virtually every music genre, since his oeuvre became inescapable for future generations not only through the creation of the genre of opera, but also because of the new musical language he developed. Works played at this concert allow us to discover how this Monteverdian musical grammar impacted on the music of later composers, the works of Italian, French and German masters. In the course of this musical journey, by following in the footsteps of Orpheus we reach the destination of music as defined by Monteverdi: to touch the soul of the listener, to develop the senses and to speak directly to the heart. Zsombor Tóth-Vajna renders compositions by Frescobaldi, Buxtehude, Tunder, François Couperin and Johann Sebastian Bach on a copy of a 1521 Hieronymus Bononiensis harpsichord.