Plea Presented by Liszt Academy

How do sounds speak to us? In the Contrasts chamber music series, students and young artists of the Liszt Academy perform in a wide variety of instrumental ensembles. The program opens with a deeply emotional and passionate quartet by Joseph Haydn, the creator of the string quartet genre. It is followed by a wind quintet from Endre Szervánszky, one of the most distinctive Hungarian composers of the twentieth century. The concert concludes with one of the most moving examples of musical dialogue, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97, whose third movement seems to open a gateway between heaven and earth.