Trusted Shops badge
The Liszt Academy of Music (Concert Hall), © Photo: Marjai Judit style= The Liszt Academy of Music (Concert Hall), © Photo: Marjai Judit

Bartók / Schönberg / Brahms – Chamber concert

Budapest, Franz Liszt Academy of Music — Main hall

Best seats Give as a gift card

Select tickets

Total Price
$ 29

About the Event

Taking the stage at this chamber concert will be a select group of performers, joined by the members of the Keller Quartet and the world‐renowned French pianist Pierre‐Laurent Aimard, flautist Zsófia Kaczander and clarinettist Csaba Klenyán. The programme for the concert, which opens with Bartók’s second sonata for violin and piano, is at least as representative as the list of performers. Serving as the two soloists for this piece that was first premiered at the Liszt Academy in 1923 by the composer and Ede Zathureczky will be the equally worthy András Keller and Aimard. After the Bartók composition, which also reveals the influence of Arnold Schönberg, we will hear the first of the latter composer’s two chamber symphonies: composed in 1906, it gives the listener no more than a hint of the future output from the master of dodecaphony and atonality. The last piece of the concert is one of the ‘early’ top achievements Johannes Brahms made in the realm of chamber music and a gem of the Romantic chamber literature as a whole: dating from the mid‐1860s, the Piano Quintet in F minor was originally intended as a string quintet.

Program

  • Béla Bartók – Violin Sonata No. 2, BB 85
  • John Adams – Chamber Symphony
  • Johannes Brahms – Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Program is subject to change

Artists

String Quartet: Keller Quartet

The Keller Quartet was founded in 1987 at the Liszt Conservatory in Budapest. It has since developed into one of the most significant quartets of our time.
Soloist: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard

Born in Lyon, France, in 1957, Pierre‐Laurent Aimard studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he won four first prizes. As a student of Yvonne Loriod from the age of twelve, he developed a close relationship with the composer Olivier Messiaen and has subsequently become a leading interpreter of his works for piano.

It was as the winner of the Olivier Messiaen International Competition in 1973 that Aimard came to international prominence. Since then, he has played throughout the world under the direction of such conductors as Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, André Previn, Andrew Davis, and David Robertson. He made his American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of twenty.

Flute, Violoncello da Spalla: Orsolya Kaczander
Clarinet, Violoncello da Spalla: Csaba Klenyán

Address

Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Wesselényi utca 52, Budapest, Hungary — Google Maps

Gift card