In the first part of the concert, Endre Hegedűs will partner with outstanding violinist Vilmos Szabadi. Simple folk motifs in abundance in the four movements of Dvořák’s Sonatina signal and radiate good spirit, a love of life and harmony. The four-movement Beethoven sonata to follow presents a sharp contrast to Dvořák’s music: through its classical forms of musical expression, the painful but concurrently heroic themes surfacing in this Beethoven piece offer a wonderful musical presentation of man’s struggle, while never allowing the possibility and prospect of ultimate victory to sink into oblivion. After the interval, Endre Hegedűs plays solo piano pieces. A rarely played composition by Tchaikovsky entitled Dumka portrays a wonderful village genre painting, which piece perfectly contrasts with the devilish music of Franz Liszt’s famous Mephisto Waltz. In the next piece, which very seldom features at concerts, Franz Liszt offers a musical variation of two themes from an opera by Donizetti, and these two themes are ultimately united and are simultaneously played at the end of this exceptional composition. The concert concludes with Gershwin’s evergreen melodies. In order to contextualise the compositions featured at this event, Endre Hegedűs presents his own thoughts before each piece, as he customarily does at his concerts.

Program:

Dvořák: Sonatina in G major for Violin and Piano, Op. 100

Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2

interval

Tchaikovsky: Dumka, Op. 59

Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz for Piano No. 1, S.514

Donizetti – Franz Liszt: Concert Waltz on Two Themes from Lucia and Parisiana, S.401

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

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