Liszt Day was a great success
22 October 2014
On 18 October 2014, we organized a ‘Liszt Day’ with three concerts to celebrate the upcoming birthday of the great composer. This event has been a tradition in our museum since 2011.
In the morning László Váradi and Gergely Kovács, two highly talented students of the Liszt Academy performed virtuoso piano pieces which were on Liszt's repertoire as well. The concert ended with the four-hand version of the Rákóczi March - a piece Liszt almost always performed during the concerts he gave in Hungary.
The Folk Music Department of the Liszt Academy performed in the afternoon with pianist József Balog. The program was based on Liszt’s Hungarian rhapsodies and their folk music traditions.
In the evening, pianist Péter Nagy honored the memory of Liszt with pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and Felix Mendelssohn – these works were also played by Liszt and he transcribed them as well. Finally, the audience could hear pieces from the Historical Hungarian Portraits that Liszt had composed in his final years. All concerts were a great success, thanks to the high quality of the program and the talent of the musicians.
