SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, THEATRE , BROADCASTS AND FILMS
Hungary Bach, St Matthew Passion, BWV 244: János Szerekován (tenor, Evangelist), other soloists, children’s choir, Lutherania Chorus, Lutherania Orchestra, Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra / Dr Salamon Kamp (conductor). Deák Square Lutheran church, Budapest, 2.4.2023. (AK)
Hungary Bartók Spring International Arts Weeks 2023 festival [2]: Dénes Várjon (pianist), Concerto Budapest / András Keller (conductor). Great Hall of Music Academy, Budapest, 1.4.2023. (AK)
Hungary Bartók Spring International Arts Weeks 2023 festival [1]: Semyon Bychkov (conductor), Seong-Jin Cho (pianist), Czech Philharmonic. MŰPA, Budapest, 31.3.2023. (AK)
Hungary A Music Sojourn in Hungary – artists, amongst others, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radics Band, Szalonna Band, Plácido Domingo (tenor), Central European String Quartet: Various venues in Budapest and Szeged. (AK)
Hungary Budapest Spring Festival – Mussorgsky, Khovanshchina (concert performance): Hungarian Radio Choir and Children’s Choir, Honvéd Male Choir, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / János Kovács (conductor), Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, MÜPA, Budapest, 5.4.2019. (AK)
Hungary Kamara.hu 2018 Chamber Music Festival – Various composers: Various performers, Solti Hall, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. 15-17.11.2018. (SS)
Hungary Mahler: Christiane Karg (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo-soprano), Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor). Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Müpa Budapest., 13.5.2018. (SS)
Dénes Várjon in conversation with Sebastian Smallshaw
Dénes Várjon studied music at the Liszt Academy with Sándor Falvai, György Kurtág, and Ferenc Rados. Over the last 25 years, he has established an international career as a concert pianist and chamber musician, and is a regular guest at prestigious festivals in Europe and the United States. Since 2015, he has been artistic co-director of the chamber music festival kamara.hu, which he coordinates together with his wife, the pianist Izabella Simon. I spoke with Dénes Várjon in Budapest, just after he had performed in the second concert of this year’s kamara.hu.