Péter Bársony, Péter Frankl & Ildikó Komlósi A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Fairy Tale Pictures is a late sonata from Schumann with a somewhat misleading title. At face value, we might well associate it with airy charm and a dainty fairy retreat, but the tone is deeper than this, sometimes even dark, because the work recalls the often sinister overtones of the 19th century fairy tale. It is a purified, magnificent masterpiece. The F minor and E-flat major sonatas of Brahms are similarly late works from the composer’s oeuvre and were inspired by a visit to Meiningen in 1891. It was here that the composer fell in love with the veiled tones of the clarinet and when he started composing for the instrument. This is the background to the birth of the two sonatas in 1894; a year later he had reorchestrated them for the similarly warm-toned viola. The Viola Songs work is similarly poetic. It is an ethereal adaptation for piano, viola and mezzo-soprano of poems by Friedrich Rückert and Lope de Vega. Liszt Prize-winning violist Péter Bársony is accompanied by 81-year-old pianist legend Péter Frankl and singer Ildikó Komlósi, who has herself entranced audiences on numerous opera stages around the world.