János Balázs is an extraordinarily talented pianist. His results in competitions testify to his special abilities, among them first prize at the Liszt Piano Competition in Pécs at the age of only 16. Subsequent honours include first prize at the prestigious international competition held in Aspen in the United States and third place at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. In 2010, the Junior Prima prize-winning artist complete a unique tour of Hungary in which he played C...hopin’s complete works for piano over sixteen concerts, including the two piano concertos. Balázs has a truly close affinity to the virtuosic and lyrical pieces of the Romantic piano repertoire, and his astonishing technique will prove essential to the performance of Rachmaninoff’s rarely played Piano Concerto No. 3. Gábor Hollerung did not choose Balázs by chance as guest artist for this concert as the Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok frequently performs with young artists and is itself comprised entirely of youthful musicians. The conductor is an advocate of immediacy and intimacy in musical performance, arguing that performers alienate their audience from the music by overly mystifying their art, by making it something out of the ordinary and hard to convey, thereby implying that classical music can only be listened to “on tiptoes” while holding one’s breath. At concerts under Hollerung’s guidance, the direct impact of the music on the senses is apparent, an effect which promises to be all the more extraordinary in a performance of such full-blooded Romantic works.
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