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Hungary at 92nd Street Y: Dénes Várjon with Izabella Simon
92nd Street Y Tisch Center For The Arts
10/17/2009
8:00PM

Dénes Várjon, piano
With Izabella Simon, piano
Award-winning pianist Dénes Várjon appears regularly in the musical capitals of Europe and the United States. He has performed at the Lucerne Festival, the Weimar Art Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival. Here he performs the works of renowned composers, including Sándor Veress who wrote numerous chamber music pieces and symphonic works, and one opera. Internationally known composers such as György Ligeti and György Kurtág have studied under Veress. He was awarded several awards, among them the Kossuth Prize in 1949 in Hungary, which he was unable to collect as an émigré living in Switzerland.

PROGRAM

SCHUBERT: March No. 1 from Deux marches caractéristiques in C Major for Piano Four Hands, D. 968b
SCHUBERT: Allegro in A minor for Piano Four Hands, D. 947, “Lebensstürme”
JANÁČEK: In the Mists for Piano
DVOŘÁK: Selections from Slavonic Dances for Piano Four Hands, Op. 46
BACH/ KURTÁG: Three Chorale-Preludes Transcribed for Piano Four Hands
VERESS: Sonatina for Piano
KURTÁG: Selections from Games IV for Piano Four Hands
BARTÓK: Old Dance Tunes from Hungarian Peasant Songs for Piano
LISZT: Schlaflos, Frage und Antwort for Piano
LISZT: Valse oubliée No. 1 for Piano
LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 for Piano

This concert is approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes in duration