The young soloist at this concert is a pupil of Kálmán Dráfi and Attila Némethy at the Liszt Academy of Music. Ivett Gyöngyösi's role model is Annie Fischer, one of the most important pianists of the 20th century, in whose footsteps she may yet follow - having won a string of competitions thanks to outstanding talents that are plain for all to see. The Junior Prima award-winning artist feels truly at home in the music of the Romantic era.
It is into this same world that this concert takes us, with a programme that features Schumann's timelessly beautiful piano concerto. To complement this, conductor Gábor Hollerung has chosen works which are rarely heard in the concert hall and are connected to Romanticism in interesting ways. Serialism was a compositional technique of fundamental importance in the second half of the 20th century, its development associated with the name of Anton Webern. However, Webern's splendid orchestral Passacaglia, an early work composed in 1908 as a graduation piece in the form of Baroque variations, also recalls Brahms and bears the hallmarks of the late Romantic period, representing the culmination of the young composer's studies under Arnold Schoenberg. The latter continued to teach until the end of his life, even after his emigration to the United States. Schoenberg regarded Brahms as his starting point, and transcribed the master's piano quartet with a Hungarian-flavoured finale for orchestra in 1937, producing an exciting work that was premièred by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The evening promises an unusual programme featuring a rare young talent and one of Hungary's most dynamic orchestras.

Presented by: Palace of Arts