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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. 

 

János Palojtay Piano Recital

12 November 2024, 19.00-21.00

Solti Hall

Black and White Colours

János Palojtay Piano Recital Presented by Liszt Academy

Medtner, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov

Medtner: Elfelejtett melódiák I, Op. 38 » 1. Sonata reminiscenza
Medtner: Six Tales, Op. 51 » 3. Allegretto tranquillo e grazioso, 5. Presto
Mussorgsky–Horowitz: Sunless » 6. On the River
Janáček: In the Mists
Rachmaninov: Prelude in G-sharp minor, Op. 32/12

INTERMISSION

Medtner: Two Fairy Tales, Op. 20 » 1. Allegro con espressione
Rachmaninov: Étude-tableau in E-flat minor, Op. 39/5
Mussorgsky: A Tear, Op. posth. 70/18
Rachmaninov: Prelude in G major, Op. 32/5
Bartók: Three Rondos on Folktunes, BB 92
Medtner: Four Fairy Tales, Op. 26 » 3. Narrante a piacere
Rachmaninov: Étude-tableau in C major, Op. 33/2
Mussorgsky: Meditation (Album Leaf)
Medtner: Six Tales, Op. 51 » 1. Allegro molto vivace al rigore di tempo e sempre leggierissimo

János Palojtay (piano)

Of the three most important composers of the first golden age of Russian piano music, Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Medtner, the latter is unfortunately still hardly known in Hungary. The piano played a prominent role in his rich oeuvre, and his sonatas, piano concertos, character pieces and songs are very special representatives of late Romanticism in the decades of modernism. Not for nothing has Medtner been called the “Russian Brahms”: his style, his way of thinking, the concentration and density of his piano works do recall the piano music of Schumann and Brahms. Medtner himself noted with wry humour that ‘I was born a hundred years later’. But in 1921 Rachmaninov did not mince his words: ‘In my opinion, you are the greatest composer of our time.’ The composer, who died in London in 1951, has had his works performed by such luminaries as Sviatoslav Richter, Boris Berezovsky, Evgeny Kissin and Daniil Trifonov.

 

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Presented by

Liszt Academy Concert Centre

Tickets:

HUF 3 900

Concert series:

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