Gergely Bogányi and Keller Quartet A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The Liszt Academy celebrating its 140th academic year has launched out on a promising series: replays of legendary concerts staged in the Grand Hall. On this, the first occasion, we hear a concert dating from 1936. This was a momentous year in the music life of Budapest. The Vienna Philharmonics under the baton of Furtwängler gave a Schumann–Beethoven concert, Béla Bartók and Edwin Fischer took to the stage together in a two piano Bach concerto, the Hungarian String Quartet (Sándor Végh, Dénes Koromzay, Péter Szervánszky, Vilmos Palotai) and Ernő Dohnányi provided a magnificent chamber recital in the Liszt Academy. However, the concert that the Keller Quartet and Gergely Bogányi replay took place on 3 March 1936: just a few weeks after the joint evening by the Hungarian String Quartet with Dohnányi, Bartók’s 5th String Quartet was presented in Hungary, or as Sándor Jemnitz enthusiastically expressed it: ‘one of the most perfect masterpieces of universal Hungarian music.’ Annie Fischer played in the piano quartet by Mozart closing the event, and among the audience was Béla Bartók himself.