Bartók World Competition

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

 

Alexander Janiczek & Márta Gulyás Chamber Recital

12 April 2024, 19.00-21.00

Solti Hall

Radio Evenings at the Liszt Academy

Alexander Janiczek & Márta Gulyás Chamber Recital

Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 17 in C major, K. 296
Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

INTERMISSION

Janáček: Sonata for Violin and Piano
Bartók:
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, BB 85

Alexander Janiczek (violin), Márta Gulyás (piano)

Violinist Alexander Janiczek has a special relationship with Hungary. He has ties to Hungary mainly through his master and mentor Sándor Végh, but he has also been to Budapest for various events: he has participated in some projects of the Festival Orchestra and took part in the 2018 kamara.hu festival of the Liszt Academy's chamber orchestra. Sándor Végh was a grand old man of 20th-century music, an apostle of chamber music, primarius of the Hungarian String Quartet and the Végh Quartet, and chamber partner of Casals, Menuhin, Horszowski, Dohnányi, Kempf and Serkin, among others. The chamber orchestra of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Camerata Academica, enjoyed a golden age under Sándor Végh. While he helped his chamber ensembles to world fame, his famously difficult and complicated nature was hard to bear for many. But he appreciated Alexander Janiczek's talents: he gave the young Janiczek  the Camerata's concertmaster's chair and even tried him out as a soloist and conductor. In the Mozart and Brahms sonatas, it will be exciting to experience the living tradition of Végh's legacy through the violinist's personality. Throughout his life, Sándor Végh enthusiastically promoted Bartók's oeuvre, keeping his string quartets in his repertoire. The second half of the concert will feature an exciting pairing of Leoš Janáček's composition and Béla Bartók's Violin and Piano Sonata No. 2. The content of the two works - their tension, their pessimism, their heartbreaking lyricism - is very similar. But their language and structure are completely different, and their style, while different in character, is inextricably linked to the folk music roots of their respective countries.

Presented by

MTVA, Liszt Academy Concert Centre

Tickets:

HUF 1500