Gábor Farkas and MÁV Symphony Orchestra A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Three Bartók piano concertos, three different worlds. The first two represent the style of piano playing characterized by Bartók himself as “bone and muscle”. The third, composed just months before his death – the final few bars of which he was unable to orchestrate – is special for two reasons: firstly, he did not write it for himself, unlike the other two, but for his wife, Ditta Pásztory, and secondly, it bears evidence of that late classicist trend that also defined Bartók’s other works written in America. This stunningly beautiful work is performed by Liszt and Prima Junior Prize winner Gábor Farkas, a tutor of the Liszt Academy who has recently been awarded his doctorate, with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, who under the baton of Gábor Takács-Nagy will also play Haydn’s popular ‘Surprise’ symphony and Beethoven’s First Symphony written just a few years later and showing clear evidence of strong Haydn influences.