Péter Frankl, Miklós Perényi, András Keller & Lilla Horti Presented by Liszt Academy

Three leading figures of Hungarian chamber music, Péter Frankl, who although over 80 is still highly active, Miklós Perényi and András Keller, are joining forces for a performance of piano trios. Their programme comprises three composers and three kinds of music. Beethoven’s Kakadu Variations contains the vigour of the young master and his late style as well because the trio published in 1824 was probably written at the beginning of his career but reworked and completed  towards the end of his life. At the time Dvořák composed his dramatic and impulsive Piano Trio in F minor he had largely put aside the Slav national tone that until then had been his hallmark, instead searching for new ways, primarily by turning towards the style of his contemporary, Brahms. In the middle number, the dazzlingly talented young soprano Lilla Horti joins the ensemble for a performance of the meditative, melancholy yet translucently beautiful song cycle of Shostakovich written in 1967.