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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. 

 

Gergely Madaras & Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

22 November 2024, 19.30-22.00

Grand Hall

Gergely Madaras & Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

Last Flowers

Liszt - John Adams: La lugubre gondola II
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
INTERMISSION
Franck: Symphony in D minor

István Várdai (cello)
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège
Conductor: Gergely Madaras

In this concert, the themes of death and passing are subtly woven into the music without the composers explicitly stating them. Each of the three pieces was composed during the final periods of their creators’ lives. Liszt’s composition is most closely associated with mourning, but the music of Elgar and Franck is equally melancholic and reflective. The origins of Ferenc Liszt’s works entitled La lugubre gondola, originally written for piano, remain somewhat mysterious. It is known that the first versions were created in 1882-83 in Venice, during Liszt’s visit to his old friend Wagner in the weeks leading up to Wagner’s death. Although Wagner criticized Liszt’s latest works during their meeting, Liszt continued to express his feelings through music. Edward Elgar’s cello concerto premiered in 1919, but its London debut was a failure due to insufficient rehearsal time, with critics noting that “never before had such a great orchestra performed so miserably.” Despite this rocky start, the concerto has become one of the most beloved pieces in the cello repertoire, thanks in part to Jacqueline du Pré’s iconic performances. César Franck’s only symphony opens with a motif that directly references Liszt’s Les Préludes and Beethoven’s final string quartet. Yet, the symphony carries such a unique message that it firmly established Franck as a major figure in French symphonic literature.

Presented by

Filharmónia Magyarország, Zeneakadémia Koncertközpont

Tickets:

HUF 4 900, 6 900, 8 900

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