Zoltán Kocsis and Hungarian National Philharmonic A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

All the works in the Hungarian National Philharmonic concert are played in C major, and are separated by just a few years. One of Haydn’s popular Paris symphonies dates from 1786, Mozart’s unsurpassed Jupiter Symphony from 1788, Beethoven’s youthfully dynamic Piano Concerto in C major was written in 1797, and the Schubert cycle with two dances in the C major key are from 1813. We might suppose that Zoltán Kocsis is serving up a highly concentrated Viennese style, but the truth is that rarely are four works so totally different from each other performed at a single concert. Soloist of the Beethoven concerto is a hugely talented individual from the youngest generation of pianists, Zoltán Fejérvári, who has raised eyebrows with performances of such notoriously complex piano works as the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Bartók, György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto and the solo piano arrangement of Petrushka by Stravinsky.