Dezső Ránki Concert, National Concert Hall Budapest, 17 January
- 16 Jan 2012 8:08 AM
"Dezső Ránki gained his diploma in 1973 at the Liszt Academy of Music as a student of Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Rados. At the age of 18, he won first prize at the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau, and has since performed concerts worldwide. He has played with the Berlin and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the Orchestre National de France in Paris, under numerous famed conductors including Georg Solti, Sándor Végh, Lorin Maazel and Zubin Mehta.
Since 1985, he has given duet recitals of works for two pianos with his wife Edit Klukon, most recently performing in Washington (at a Dukay evening), Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, New York and London.
Their most recent recording features works by Liszt, Satie and Dukay. Ránki’s awards include the Liszt Prize in 1973, the Kossuth Prize in 1978, the Budapest Artist’s Award in 1982, the Artistic Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 1984, the Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 1988, the Outstanding Artist Award in 1990, and the Prima Primissima Award in 2005.
He also received the Medium Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2006, and the Kossuth Prize for a second time in 2008.
The Piano – MVM Concerts No. 2
Date: 17 January 2012
Time: 7.30 pm - 10.00 pm
Venue: Bartók Béla National Concert Hall
Barnabás Dukay: Rondino, speaking to the heart (Rondino, amely a szívhez szól)
Haydn: Sonata in E-flat major, Hob. XVI/49
Debussy: Children’s Corner
Liszt: Five short piano pieces
Liszt: Apres une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi sonata
Schumann: Album für die Jugend, op. 68 – selection
Barnabás Dukay: Monódia (Hungarian premiére)Prices: 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 8000 Ft"
Source: Palace of Arts
Address: Budapest, IX district, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Tel: 555-3000
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