Kristóf Baráti solo recital - Bach’s Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The K2 of violinists is performing Bach’s six solo sonatas and partitas in a single concert. Few are up to the demands of the task which calls for near-superhuman skills, but young Kossuth Prize laureate Kristóf Baráti does not know the word impossible: he has already recorded this major series, not to mention the devilishly difficult series composed in the same genre by Ysaÿe. His virtuosity is far from being the only reason for the success of his recordings, which include the whole cycles of Beethoven and Brahms violin-piano sonatas in partnership with Klára Würtz. He was only 18 years old when he won third prize at one of the world’s most prestigious violin competitions, the Brussels Queen Elisabeth Competition (he returned home from Belgium with the audience prize to boot). His art combines the traditions of two great violin schools: he studied in Paris with professors who were students of David Oistrakh and Nathan Milstein, and he graduated from the Liszt Academy as a student of Miklós Szenthelyi and Vilmos Tátrai, moving immediately into the heart of musical life.