...a country (Hungary) whose population, even today, is barely over ten million has produced so many musicians and so much outstanding music. I am grateful for having been born and trained there.

Sir Georg Solti
The Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra

20 January 2019, 19.30-22.00

Grand Hall

The Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra Presented by Liszt Academy

Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 10 in B minor
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings in E-flat major, Op. 20

János Balázs (piano)
The Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra (concertmaster: János Pilz, artistic director: Károly Botvay)

Which 8-year-old composer does the following report refer to? “A true musical natural talent. Besides the fact that he plays even the most difficult pieces on the piano with the lightest of touch and absolute taste, he composes dances and variations which on hearing entrance the music connoisseur.” Elsewhere, others consider that this wunderkind was the one “who could step into the shoes of Mozart.” His works written in childhood and in his teens are performed at the combined recital of Budapest Strings and János Balázs. (By the way, it is irrelevant that the above was written about Chopin not Mendelssohn. It applies equally well!)

Presented by

Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra

Tickets:

HUF 2 800, 3 800, 4 800, 5 800