17 November 2024, 19.00-21.30
Solti Hall
kamara.hu – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
kamara.hu/6 Presented by Liszt Academy
Chamber Music Festival of the Liszt Academy
Janáček: Sonata for Violin and Piano
Anthony Marwood (violin), Dénes Várjon (piano)
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Keller Quartet: András Keller, Zsófia Környei (violin), Gábor Homoki (viola), László Fenyő (cello)
INTERMISSION
Dvořák: Slavonic Dances » excerpts
Izabella Simon, Dénes Várjon (piano)
Bartók: Piano Quintet, BB 33
Keller Quartet: András Keller, Zsófia Környei (violin), Gábor Homoki (viola), László Fenyő (cello)
Dénes Várjon (piano)
Artistic directors of the festival: Izabella Simon & Dénes Várjon
“If you’re looking for infinity, just close your eyes”, writes Milan Kundera in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. “And, of course, open your ears,” might add Izabella Simon and Dénes Várjon, who have chosen the Czech writer’s world-famous work as this year’s theme for kamara.hu. An entertaining yet thought-provoking story spiced with acerbic humour and served with eroticism, with the eternal question of opposites at its heart. Is what is light also weightless? And what is heavy is consequently weighty? In addition to these questions, the festival will feature Czech music as represented by Dvořák, Janáček and Martinů, and focus on 1968 – a pivotal year in the novel and in Shostakovich’s life – and on persecution, repression, censorship and emigration, as well as Don Juan, Dante and Nietzsche. Also, Mozart will clarify what ‘facile’ means to them and, of course, the book’s key piece, Beethoven’s last quartet, is played. All this is a mixture of the finest colours from the international musical palette.
- 10% discount for 2 concerts,
- 15% discount for 3 concerts,
- 20% discount for 4 or more concerts.
Presented by
Liszt Academy Concert Centre
Tickets:
HUF 3 900
Concert series:
Other events in the concert series:
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kamara.hu/1
Solti Hall
19:00
kamara.hu/2
Solti Hall
11:00
Magic Sound – Golden String and the Three Cellos
Cupola Hall
17:00
kamara.hu/3
Cupola Hall
19:00
kamara.hu/4
Solti Hall
11:00
kamara.hu/5
Solti Hall