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

 

Flóra Matuska, Lucia Kiss, Oszkár Varga, Imre Dani

17 May 2024, 19.00-21.00

Solti Hall

Y Generation

Flóra Matuska, Lucia Kiss, Oszkár Varga, Imre Dani Presented by Liszt Academy

Barrière, Cassadó, Debussy, Lutosławski, Ravel

Barrière: Sonatas for Two Cellos, Book 4 » 4. Sonata in G major (‘Duet’)
Cassadó: Suite
Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor
Lutosławski: Sacher Variation
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

Oszkár Varga (violin), Flóra Matuska, Lucia Kiss (cello), Imre Dani (piano)

Flóra Matuska and Lucia Kiss will perform one of Debussy’s most beautiful chamber compositions and Ravel’s emblematic trio, as well as particularly cherished pieces from the cello repertoire. Baroque instrumental music is represented by Jean-Baptiste Barrière (1707–1747). The distinguished French master published four volumes of accompanied cello sonatas, among which the most original and characteristic work is the cheerful duet for two cellos from the fourth volume. This piece remains a prized work in the cello repertoire to this day. Similarly popular is the Suite for Cello Solo by Gaspar Cassadó, a pupil of Casals. This piece, dating from the 1920s, features a musical idea that recalls Zoltán Kodály’s Cello Sonata. Another piece in the concert’s program for solo cello is the series of variations written by Lutosławski in honor of Paul Sacher (1975). This work has since taken up a prominent position in the 20th-century cello repertoire.

 

Buy tickets for the concerts organized by the Liszt Academy at the same time and we will give you
  • 10% discount for 2 concerts,
  • 15% discount for 3 concerts,
  • 20% discount for 4 or more concerts.

 

Presented by

Liszt Academy Concert Centre

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Tickets:

HUF 3 500

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