Hungarian-Turkish Year of Culture: Gábor Farkas

Naval Museum, Deniz Müzesi, Sinanpaşa Mh., 34353 Beşiktaş/Istanbul, Turkey

The third in this year’s series of recitals at the Naval Museum in Beşiktaş featuring Hungarian musicians, organised by the Hungarian Cultural Centre in conjunction with ‘Artisan Sanat’. In this recital, pianist Gábor Farkas is to perform two of the Baroque composer Domenico Scarlatti’s brief but bright and breezy sonatas, Franz Schubert’s alternately cheerful and restful Sonata No 13 in A major (D 664), Franz Liszt’s ebullient Soirées de Vienne No 7 (an arrangement of dance pieces by Schubert), Alfred Grünfeld’s Soirées de Vienne (an even more effervescent paraphrase of waltz motifs from Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus) and a selection of works by Liszt – his transcription (entitled The Bells of Rome) of Schubert’s Ave Maria, his appealing Valse-Impromptu in A flat major, the fiery, swirling Hungarian Rhapsody No 12, the melancholy En Rêve and the consummately dramatic Mephisto Waltz No 1. JSD