Geniuses II.

Liszt Academy, Grand Hall

Mikhail Pletnev became famous as a virtuoso pianist about four and a half decades ago. However, he has also been internationally acknowledged as a conductor and composer for some time. On this occasion, the audience will encounter the Russian musician as a conductor and composer who is a regular returning guest of Concerto Budapest.

Roaming the familiar landscape of German Romanticism – this is how the programme could be described, and it promises three representative and particularly popular pieces conducted by András Keller. “This introduction involves a mystical element that is present and at the same time hidden throughout the whole piece…,” Ferenc Liszt said of the Prelude to Lohengrin.