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.

St John's Passion – performed by Concerto Budapest

29 March 2024, 19.30-22.00

Grand Hall

Geniuses 1

St John's Passion – performed by Concerto Budapest

J. S. Bach: St John Passion, BWV 245

Atala Schöck (alto), Bernhard Berchtold (tenor), Miklós Sebestyén (baritone)
New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir (choirmaster: László Nemes László)
Concerto Budapest
Conductor: András Keller

“The premiere of the Passion in 1724 provided Bach with the opportunity to stamp the Good Friday Vespers with his own artistic individuality for the first time. The Good Friday Vespers had just become the most important event of the year. […] Bach had never been in a situation where he could present his abilities so spectacularly. None of his previous premieres required such deep preparation, and none of them enhanced his experience concerning monumental compositions to such an extent.” This is how musicologist Christoph Wolff, the biographer for Johann Sebastian Bach, assessed the significance of the Saint John Passion in the context of the composer’s entire career. If only we were also able to describe what this gigantic Bach piece means to us with articulation way. In fact, the Hungarian poet János Pilinszky did so for us when he wrote the following about the Passion: “This music makes a case for heaven, and is proof that life does exist without opposites, moreover, that life without opposites has the greatest and ’most exciting’ dynamism.” András Keller conducts this impeccable wonder of European music – or maybe European culture, featuring the New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir, and excellent soloists, such as the Austrian Bernhard Berchtold.

All tickets to the event are sold out.

Presented by

Concerto Budapest

Tickets:

HUF 3 100, 3 900, 4 800, 5 900, 7 500

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