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Chamber music festival soon to begin at the Liszt Academy

10 November 2016

Besides the significantly discounted subscription rates (15-25%) for any combination of the concerts of the kamara.hu chamber music festival taking place between 17 and 20 November with Dénes Várjon and Izabella Simon as artistic directors, now also individual tickets have been to be purchased since 10 November.

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Zoltán Kocsis (1952–2016)

10 November 2016

On behalf of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Dr. Andrea Vigh, the president of the Liszt Academy bade farewell to Zoltán Kocsis, who, as an artist, was born at the Liszt Academy and remained the academy’s own son right until his death.

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The joy of freedom

20 October 2016

“Strings in the earth and air / Make music sweet; / Strings by the river where / The willows meet.” One could imagine a Monteverdi madrigal melody accompanying this verse from the Chamber Music cycle by James Joyce. The poem’s delicate flute and lute parts evoke in my mind the open-eyed wonder of infants on discovering something new: the world is still full of gods; branches and clouds live; a caress has a taste; sight has a sound: sensation is still whole and free, not broken into fragmentary experiences.

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