Beyond Music… A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

“His musical individuality is made distinct by the entirely unique knitting together of ancient primitiveness with the most advanced culture. His music is one, an entirety unto itself, with a unified structure and without any trace of plagiarism or imitation.” These are the words of Zoltán Kodály about Béla Bartók in the columns of the magazine Nyugat on the première of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. The audience no longer sees Bartók’s music as a seven-gate castle, said Kodály in the same journal, but a guiding authority through Bartók’s oeuvre is still welcome for many of us. Particularly if we have the luck to find it is Tamás Vásáry – an artist with deep insight and profound sensitivity – who undertakes this initiation going beyond simple teaching. Zoltán Kodály’s former assistant, the perfect storyteller, pianist and conductor Tamás Vásáry, confidently brings us closer to the composer called the ‘good doctor’ in the poem by Gyula Illyés: “… do not soothe; / who with the fingers of your music / touching our soul, you always touch, / exactly where it hurts…”