Volumes II.

Liszt Academy, Grand Hall

The focus of the concert is Focus itself, that is, the Hungarian premiere of Péter Eötvös’s concerto for Saxophone, which he completed in 2021. The title refers to film-making: the “sound camera” changes focus between the soloist in close-ups and the orchestra in the background like the camera does in films.

Liszt Academy, Grand Hall

It is always a fantastic and festive occasion when the audience is able to greet the grand old lady of piano playing, Elisabeth Leonskaja. Although she is approaching the end of her seventies, the freshness her playing is still astonishing. This fact will be proven by this concert, where she will play Brahms’s Concerto for Piano in D minor, which demands complete physical and intellectual presence from the soloist. 

Aude Extrémo

Conductor: György Vashegyi

In French operas, mezzo-sopranos occupy a special and prominent place. We need look no further than Bizet’s Carmen or the female title role of Camille Saint-Saëns’s main operatic work, Delila.