András Keller, Csaba Klenyán, Dénes Várjon A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

András Keller and Dénes Várjon rank among the most important and influential artistic personalities of Liszt Academy concert life. Audiences of the Grand Hall are regularly spellbound by Keller as leader of Concerto Budapest and first violinist of the Keller Quartet, and Várjon as soloist and chamber musician. Last season we were witness to their combined enterprise (crowned with success) when they performed all Beethoven’s piano concertos. This time we can reckon on them offering an equally remarkable programme. The artists, known for their profundity and intellectual approach, take to the stage with Bach and Bartók sonatas as well as Contrasts, the latter assisted by excellent clarinettist Csaba Klenyán. The music of Bach played a vital role in the artistic thinking of Bartók: he not only nurtured a close relationship with the Bach oeuvre as a pianist but also as a publisher and teacher. And as far as composition is concerned, he himself admitted in the mid-1920s that instead of the Beethoven patterns used in earlier years, he increasingly relied on Bach solutions in compositions.