“Interestingly, no, I’m not bored with the music of Franz Liszt. That surprises me, too – or rather I’m delighted about it. The more I play his works, the more I want to keep playing them. I’ve got so into his music, so in tune with its beauty, its difficulty and above all its greatness, that it has an effect on me a little like a drug.” This is how the Kossuth Prize-winning Gergely Bogányi spoke before a solo recital during last year’s Year of Liszt, when he decided that he would also play a pr...ogramme of Liszt’s works at the Palace of Arts in 2012, and not just perform one, but – taking his cue from the Chopin marathon presented in 2010 – several recitals all on the same day. For his one-man marathon to mark Franz Liszt’s 201st birthday, the pianist has chosen a number of works by Bach alongside pieces by the “notorious musician”. As Liszt wrote to a friend in 1863: “Despite the greatest respect I have for Handel, I continue to admire Bach above all others; and if I have had my fill of Handel’s tertian chords, then my heart is drawn towards the passion, the rich dissonances of the Mass in B minor and other delights of Bach’s polyphony.” Moreover, the Leipzig master influenced Liszt not only as a composer, but also as a piano virtuoso and teacher. For this concert, Bogányi has chosen from among Bach’s shorter compositions of a pedagogic nature. Although these appear to present no great challenge for a piano virtuoso of Bogányi’s calibre, even these one- or two-minute pieces – as the pianist himself once admitted to his own great surprise – still require many hours of work. Alongside the Bach works, the recital includes several pieces by Liszt which commemorate his travel experiences, all taken from the Italian chapter of his Years of Pilgrimage cycle. The concert also promises to be special as Bogányi presents his skills in transcription. Following in the footsteps of Liszt himself and other great transcribers such as Kempff, d’Albert, Busoni, Lipatti and Godowsky, he will play his own arrangement of one of the young Bach’s grandest organ works. Day tickets are available for the 3.30pm, 6pm and 8 pm performances of “A Day with Gergely Bogányi - Liszt and Bach” for prices of 5100, 6300, 7800 and 9900 Forints. Day tickes
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