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.

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

9 May 2024, 19.30-22.00

Grand Hall

Ferencsik/4

Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Jupiter

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G major, Hob. I:88
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467

INTERMISSION

Haydn: Il ritorno di Tobia, Hob. XXI:1 » Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 ('Jupiter')

Petra Somlai (fortepiano)
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: György Vashegyi

At the concerts scheduled for the Ferencsik season ticket, the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra will take the stage in smaller numbers, in keeping with the style of Viennese Classicism. The final night on the programme will add another exciting moment when we hear the Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, played on the pre-modern fortepiano. Serving as the soloist will be one of Hungary’s finest virtuosos of the instrument, Petra Somlai, who will play alongside conductor György Vashegyi in a programme framed by two late symphonies by Haydn and Mozart.

Haydn completed his Symphony No. 88 in G major in 1787, the year before Mozart wrote the final piece of his symphonic output, the legendary ‘Jupiter’ Symphony No. 41 in C major. The audience will thus get to hear one of each of the two composers’ most mature symphonic works on a single evening, one at the beginning of the concert and the the other at the end. The Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, written in 1785, is a magnificent example of Mozart’s mature Viennese concerto style and is reminiscent of the style of Michael Haydn in its finale. The interesting thing about the overture to Joseph Haydn’s Il ritorno di Tobia is the fact that it introduces the composer’s still rarely heard early oratorio.

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Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Tickets:

HUF 3 900, 4 900, 5 900, 6 900

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