Ágnes Langer & Fülöp Ránki CHAMBER RECITAL

The talent of violinist Ágnes Langer was noticed very early on, then she continued her higher education in Germany and the Netherlands. She has won numerous international competitions and has been concertmaster of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2024. The other performer is Fülöp Ránki, who was born to renowned pianist parents Dezső Ránki and Edit Klukon. He earned his degree at the Liszt Academy, where he is now a doctoral student and a teacher and is also active as a soloist and chamber musician. This matinee concert opens with Schubert’s Sonatina for Violin and Piano, one of the composer’s most lyrical chamber pieces, spiced with the playfulness of his early compositions. This is followed by Dohnányi’s Sonata, Op. 21, which was premiered in Vienna in 1912, and the composer himself played the piano part. A few lyrical character pieces will be performed by the museum’s namesake, Liszt, mostly late compositions, and the concert concludes with perhaps the most popular work in the Romantic violin-piano repertoire, Franck’s Sonata. Originally composed in 1886 for Ysaÿe, the young Belgian violin virtuoso, the popularity of this work is evident in the fact that it has been transcribed for all kinds of instruments, there is even a version for choir and organ.