This recital by the young Hungarian pianist Fülöp Ránki, born in 1995 and trained at the Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, where he is currently a doctoral student and piano teacher, is to begin with J.S. Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904 and Beethoven’s 1798 Piano Sonata No 9 in E major, which introduces a Sturm und Drang element that would later become a regular feature of the composer’s style.
The programme will then continue with five pieces by Liszt: Five Piano Pieces, S 192, written between 1865 and 1879; the dissonant Funérailles, S 173 no 7, from his Harmonies poétiques et religieuses; the surprisingly impressionistic Les jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este, from the Troisième année album (S 163) of Années de Pèlerinage; and the highly dramatic Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata, from the Deuxième année: Italie album (S 161) of Années de Pèlerinage.
This concert is one of the events organised within the framework of the 2024 Hungarian-Turkish Year of Culture.
John Shakespeare Dyson
Issue 67, December 2024
Beauty in the Wilderness
