Egri & Pertis Piano Duo: Crosstalks 10. | If Mozart had cycled in tandem…

Program:
J. S. Bach – I. Moscheles: Prelude in C Major – Studies in Melodious Counterpoint, Op. 137b
W. A. Mozart – E. Grieg: Piano Sonata in C Major – With Freely-Composed 2nd Piano Part
A. Borodin – C. Cui – N. Rimsky-Korsakov – A. Liadov: Paraphrases
S. Rachmaninoff – S. Taneyev – A. Arensky – A. Glazunov: Four Improvisations
F. Schubert – Ede Poldini: Impromptu, Op. 90 No. 2 – Study for Two Pianos
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Máté Hollós: Doppiano (2005) – Movement III
Máté Hollós: Bartók-Shadow (2015)
G. Fauré – A. Messager: Souvenirs de Bayreuth – Fantasy in the form of a quadrille on themes from Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung
J. Strauss II. – A. Schulz-Evler – A. Chasins: The Blue Danube Waltz – Paraphrase for Two Pianos

Featuring:
Mónika Egri, Attila Pertis – piano
Guest: Máté Hollós – Bartók–Pásztory and Erkel Prize winning composer
Host: Szilvia Becze

Instrumental performers can play chamber music together in many different formations, but what about composers? Can the "bicycle" of musical fantasy be ridden by two or more people? Usually, we find composers writing works of their own inspiration in a unique musical language, but musical literature also offers a more hidden but exciting area where composers have responded to each other or composed together. With this colourful bouquet of unique pieces, Egri & Pertis Piano Duo celebrates the 5th anniversary of the launch of the "Crosstalks" concert series, which showcases the interaction of related arts. The "chamber music" of the composers is represented, among others, by the joint compositions of Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Rachmaninoff and Fauré, while the indirect collaboration is represented by Grieg, Poldini and their colleagues, who composed a second piano solo for the evergreens of Bach, Mozart or Johann Strauss. The artistic guest of the evening, Máté Hollós, Bartók-Pásztory and Erkel Prize winning composer and honorary president of the Hungarian Composers' Association, will talk about how a composer can tap into the world of another composer's ideas or sounds, or "collaborate" with his colleague in any way. The host of the "Crosstalks" continues to be the popular editor and moderator of Bartók Radio, Szilvia Becze.

The series is sponsored by OTP Bank.

The photo of the Egri-Pertis Duo was taken by Zsófia Raffay and the photo of Máté Hollós was taken by Edit Ternyák.