Ernő Kállai & Zoltán Fejérvári A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Mozart did not have time to score the piano part of the Sonata for Violin and Piano in B-flat major for its premiere in 1784, so craftily he accompanied violinist Regina Strinasacchi using sheet music that was blank. A sentimental but far from maudlin piece was finally created, similar to the A major sonata for violin and piano. The accompaniment for the latter sonata is one of the most technically challenging Mozart ever wrote for keyboard; its remarkable power may well be a tribute to the composer’s great friend Carl Friedrich Abel, who died prematurely in the year the piece was written. Schönberg’s Fantasy plays with the familiar structural solutions of Renaissance and early Baroque fantasies, while remaining an enigmatic musical work. The core of Schubert’s Fantasy in C major is fashioned out of variations on the song ‘Sei mir gegrusst’; it reveals lyricism and bravura reminiscent of Paganini.
Violinist Ernő Kállai was invited by Itzhak Perlman himself to attend the New York Juilliard School, where he spent six years on a scholarship. Since then, this brilliant artist has played at Carnegie Hall. The critics characterize Zoltán Fejérvári as a sensitive and honest craftsman of the piano. Besides lifting prizes at the British James Mottram and Spanish Ricardo Viñes International Piano Competitions, he also holds the Liszt Society’s Grand Prix du Disque.