Balázs Fülei piano recital A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Stylized Baroque dances, folk music sublimated into a dance suite of different nationalities, Norwegian peasant dances and Argentine dances in 20th-century guise all feature in the solo recital of Junior Prima Prize-holder Balázs Fülei. The concert by the Liszt Academy’s professor of chamber music could bear the title ‘Dances of Peoples’, though ‘Dances of Souls’ would be equally appropriate, as the music is suited not for foot tapping but for profound listening. The monumental synthesis of Bach’s English Suite in D minor is everything possible in the universe of stylized Baroque dances; Bartók’s Dance Suite – the orchestral origins of which were composed for the 50th anniversary of the unification of Pest, Buda and Óbuda – expresses, in the language of music and by placing the peasant music of different nationalities alongside each other, the idea of peoples forming a brotherhood. Grieg immortalizes the folk heritage of his own nation in artistic concert music, while Alberto Ginastera, the greatest Argentine composer of the 20th century, links two rapid étude-like dances with an elegiac slow piece to create a genuine 20th century sonata cycle from the three dances.