Schedule of live rounds 2-10 September

Preliminaries: 3 September 15:00 and 19:00; 4 September 15:00 and 19:00; 5 September 15:00

Admission is free.

Although the Bartók World Competition has not yet been running for several decades, it is already one of the most prestigious competitions in the world: hundreds of entries are received for each year, and every year the audience and jury hear world-class performances - not only in the final but also in the preliminaries thanks to the video preselection round. The preliminaries will be held in the Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy

Semi-finals: 6 September 19:00; 7 September 15:00 and 19:00

Admission is free.

Every two years, the competition organises an instrumental round, with a composition competition in the even years. In 2022, the task was to write a violin-piano duo, the winning pieces became compulsory pieces for the current semi-final: all competitors must perform one of them. The semi-finals will also be held in the Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy.

Orchestral finals: 9 September, 15:00 and 19:00. Tickets are available by clicking on the selected time.

Only the best young artists will be admitted to the orchestral finals of the Violin Competition, with six young artists scheduled to compete. They will have a choice of seven concertos for the final competition in the main hall of the Liszt Academy: in addition to two Bartók concertos, the final will include a violin concerto by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven or Sibelius. Featuring the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted by János Kovács.

Gala concert: 10 September at 19:30 in the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy. Tickets are available here.

Liszt Academy is streaming all the live rounds on Youtube.

22 March 2024, 19.30-22.00

Grand Hall

String Quartets

Dezső Ránki & Keller Quartet Presented by Liszt Academy

Schubert, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky

Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (‘The Trout’)

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11

Dezső Ránki (piano), Benedek Devich (double bass)
Keller Quartet: András Keller, Zsófia Környei (violin), Máté Szűcs (viola), László Fenyő (cello)

Some concerts feature musicians so excellent that the listener doesn’t care what they play. And then there are concerts where the favourites are so great that you don’t even notice who the performers are. Finally, there is the evening when two-time Kossuth Prize winner Dezső Ránki plays with the Keller Quartet, founded in 1987, and they put three masterpieces on their programme. The programme opens with the five-movement “The Trout”, which, with its violin-viola-cello-double bass-piano apparatus, introduced audiences to a previously unknown formation, and in its variation movement also covers an earlier popular song by Schubert. Shostakovich also quotes from himself in his most famous string quartet – only from many more of his works. And finally, a Russian string quartet, Tchaikovsky’s first attempt at the genre and his greatest success, closes the concert.

We offer an independent discount scheme for the concerts organized by the Liszt Academy. The discounts available are:

10% discount for the simultaneous purchase of tickets for two different concerts;

15% discount for the simultaneous purchase of tickets for three different concerts;

20% discount on the total purchase price if you buy tickets for four or more different concerts at the same time.

Presented by

Liszt Academy Concert Centre

Tickets:

HUF 3 900, 5 200,6 500, 7 900

Concert series:

String Quartets

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