Ernő Kállai & János Balázs A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

"I practice 4-5 hours a day! If I don’t go completely mad, you will discover an artist in me. What a person, what a violin, what an artist! My God, how much suffering, how much misery, what torment in these four strings!" Ferenc Liszt wrote these lines to one of his students in 1832 after hearing Niccoló Paganini’s demonic violin playing in Paris. This experience forced the 20-year-old Liszt to rethink his piano technique and his whole life. The Hungarian went on to write piano arrangements of a few of Paganini’s legendary violin works, the Caprices. Now two Junior Prima young virtuosi, Ernő Kállai discovered by Itzhak Perlman, and János Balázs, following in the footsteps of György Cziffra, reveal exactly what Liszt went through when heard Paganini: after the interval, Liszt’s Paganini etudes are paired with the original caprices. The first part of the concert features the beautiful Romances of Clara Schumann, who was also overwhelmed by the Paganini experience, and one of the apogees of the classical chamber repertoire, Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata.