Bologna Festival: Fülöp Ránki

About the Event

Step back into history and experience the grandeur of piano music at the beautiful Chiostro della Basilica di Santo Stefano in Bologna.

Fülöp Ránki is, quite literally, a child of the arts: his father, Dezső Ránki, is one of Hungary’s greatest pianists of his generation, and his mother, Edit Klukon, is a pianist, pedagogue, and teacher. Little Fülöp began playing the piano at the age of three, without yet knowing music, and by the age of eight, he was accepted into the Pál Járdányi School in Budapest before entering the Liszt Academy. Now, at thirty years old, he still performs alongside his father and mother, but has also begun an independent career that has already taken him to perform around the world. His recital explores all facets of the complex technical and stylistic prism of Franz Liszt’s “transcendental” pianism.

PROGRAM:
Franz Liszt
The Legend of St. Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds, S.175/1
Selections from Five Piano Pieces, S.192
Consolations Nos. 1–6, S.172
Valse oubliée Nos. 1–4, S.215
Les morts, S.516
The Legend of St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves, S.175/2