János Pálúr Presented by Liszt Academy

“The majority of my life has been looking to the future with hope, so it’s now time to look in the professional mirror,” says János Pálúr, who ever since his diploma concert at the Liszt Academy has been promoting – with passion and with love – the cause of organ music in Hungary. In the years since graduation he has given several hundred concerts, he was the leading light behind the launch of the concert series Reformed Songs in the Fasor Reformed Church 16 years ago, while he has also lectured at the Liszt Academy since 1998. In the first half of the concert brought about with the help of excellent guest artists and ensembles, we can hear mainly church-inspired works from the north German Baroque school of organ through Bach to Gárdonyi, and after the intermission French music is also represented by two composers. Thirty years ago, this programme compilation would have been a curiosity, but today, thanks partly to János Pálúr, French organ music also forms an integral part of the domestic concert repertoire.