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.

19 April 2024, 19.30-22.00

Grand Hall

Volumes II

Concerto Budapest

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93

Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Concerto Budapest
Conductor: András Keller

It is always a fantastic and festive occasion when the audience is able to greet the grand old lady of piano playing, Elisabeth Leonskaja. Although she is approaching the end of her seventies, the freshness of her playing is still astonishing. This fact will be proven by this concert, where she will play Brahms’s Piano Concerto in D minor, which demands complete physical and intellectual presence from the soloist. The world premiere of the concerto in 1859 was received with complete confusion, but, only a few years later, it became one of the fundamental works of the concert repertoire. Almost a hundred years later, in December 1953, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 was performed in Leningrad under entirely different circumstances. Excitement and positive expectations preceded the premiere, as it meant that, after eight years of silence, the witch hunt of Zhdanov’s cultural policy and, of course, Stalin’s death, the composer returned to the genre of the symphony. The Symphony, conducted this time by András Keller, is particularly remarkable with respect to its shortest second movement, as this famous and aggressive scherzo depicts a portrait of the Soviet tyrant through music.

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Concerto Budapest

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

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