kamara.hu/1 Presented by Liszt Academy

This year’s kamara.hu festival will kick off with several references to The Little Prince. The first concert of the festival, organised by artistic directors Izabella Simon and Dénes Várjon, will start with Schumann’s depiction of the puerile spirit – modestly, on a single piano  –, and the first half of the concert is closed with a four-hand piano cycle for children that depicts various fairy tales. The Debussy pieces evoke France, the homeland of Saint-Exupéry, and the sensitivity of French music. The translucent sound of the Schubert sonata, composed toward the end of his career and representing one of the author's most vulnerable, most sensitive confessions, also refers to the novel: it can be interpreted as the musical equivalent of the little prince's slender, fragile figure.

In an unusual development and in view of the situation that emerged as a result of the pandemic, all this will take place without the participation of foreign guest artists; it will be in Hungarian “translation” only, performed by the very best of the Hungarian musical life.