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Gábor Csalog (piano) and István Varga (violoncello) played together in Trafó’s main hall last October during the Budapest Autumn Festival. At that time they concentrated on contemporary and classical compositions and musical forms. This time the two musicians will focus on 19th and 20th century Russian composers: Tschaikowsky, Mussorgsky, Ustvolskaya, Prokofiev and Schnittke.
Gábor Csalog was only 11 when he gained admission to the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music to the faculty of Special Talents. Among his teachers there were so famous musicians as Erna Czövek, Klára Máthé, Dezsõ Ránki, András Schiff, György Kurtág and Zoltán Kocsis. After graduating the Liszt Academy, he continued his studies in the United States at the University of Indiana with Professor György Sebők and for two years he worked as well as Mr. Sebők's assistant. Gábor Csalog established close professional relationship with several Hungarian composers, which has resulted numerous first night performances and several works dedicated for him. From 2000 onwards he has become one of the most important artists who interpretated György Ligeti's new piano works for the first time in Hungary. His repertory contains not only contemporary pieces but oeuvres from the previous periods, including rarities as well.
Besides his recitals and chamber music concerts in Hungary he has guest-performed nearly in every European county and in the United States. He is professor of the Bartók Conservatory of Music and at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music at the faculty of chamber music. Könemann Music Budapest has published Chopin's complete works with him. In 2003 he was awarded the Liszt-prize. His major recordings include all the Chopin-mazurkas (Hungaroton), The Etudes of Liszt and Ligeti, works of Scriabin, and "The Plays" of Kurtág.
PROGRAMME:
Galina Ustvolskaya: Great Duet – for violoncello and piano
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky:
The first punishment
Meditation (for piano)
Szergej Szergejevics Prokofiev: Sonata for cello and piano
Interval
Pjotr Iljics Tschaikowsky: Seasons – in parts (for piano)
Alfred Garyevich Schnittke: I. Sonata for cello and piano
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