Budapest Opera Tribute Concert To Annie Fischer On 100th Birthday
- 9 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
The Hungarian State Opera House will host a tribute concert to celebrate the birth centenary of world-renowned Hungarian pianist Annie Fischer on April 14. Pianists Jenő Jandó, Tamás Vásáry, Ilona Prúnyi and Katalin Falvai will play solos accompanied by the Solti Chamber Orchestra to commemorate the artist, who died in 1995, Vásáry told a press conference in Budapest.
Vásáry called the three-time Kossuth prize-winner Fischer “the world’s greatest pianist” When she appeared on stage “the spirit of the great classics came alive.”
“She spoke the language of the greats,” he said. The concert will feature works by Schubert, Liszt, Richard Strauss, Bach, Mozart and Dohnányi.
The highlight of the evening will be Bach’s arrangement of a Vivaldi concerto in a minor for four pianos performed by Jandó, Kocsis, Vásáry and Falvai with the Solti Chamber Orchestra.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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