Music For Flute And Piano Szabolcs Szilágyi, László Borbély

• Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953): Sonata D major for Flute and Piano, Op.94:
• 1Prokofiev: Sonata D major for Flute and Piano, Op.94: I. Moderato07:50
• 2Prokofiev: Sonata D major for Flute and Piano, Op.94: II. Scherzo, Presto04:35
• 3Prokofiev: Sonata D major for Flute and Piano, Op.94: III. Andante03:26
• 4Prokofiev: Sonata D major for Flute and Piano, Op.94: IV. Allegro con brio06:23
• Zoltán Kodály (1882 - 1967): Adagio:
• 5Kodály: Adagio07:34
• Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961): Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op.23:
• 6Liebermann: Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op.23: I. Lento10:16
• 7Liebermann: Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op.23: II. Presto energico03:30
• Aaron Jay Kernis (b. 1960): Air
• 8Kernis: Air10:23
• Total Runtime53:57

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"Whether it is necessary, or even right, to follow conventions (the beaten track) when recording music, for example, or whether the performer can claim the right to show the listener the world he lives in, the world he knows best, with all its beauty and its countless oddities, even risks? Should he let the listener into his own territory, that is, into a strange and individual dimension that the audience may not have known existed until now? Nowadays, a carefully crafted recording gives the listener the illusion of a world believed to be flawless, a care that is fundamentally designed to cater to the perfectionism of the audience. A 'different' kind of care is therefore needed, one that can breathe life into even a recording.

Our intention in making this record was therefore to create the most natural, realistically transcendent material possible, capable of speaking to the audience." (Szabolcs Szilágyi)

"Chamber music (no matter how many of us are playing) is liberating precisely because each player creates something in his or her own place and time. It is this act of creation in the most mundane sense that can lift any activity out of the drabness of everyday life, and thus, through the performer, bring the work(s) being performed to life.

What was particularly exciting about this project was that the collaboration of two ENTIRELY different instruments and two ENTIRELY different players (yet moving on the same artistic platform) resulted, at least I hope, in a particularly exciting and fruitful encounter." (László Borbély)

Szabolcs Szilágyi, flute
László Borbély, grand piano

Szabolcs Szilágyi
graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He then went to London to continue postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music with Susan Milan. Meanwhile, invited by the maestro, he attended Sir James Galway’s international seminar in Weggis, Switzerland, on several occasions. Szabolcs Szilágyi has been a member of Concerto Budapest – formerly Hungarian Symphony Orchestra – since 1995. Szilágyi played at the Frankfurt Chamber Opera, and was a regular member of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of pianist/conductor Tamás Vásáry and later of world renowned conductor Ádám Fischer. As an orchestral musician, he has worked with distinguished artists such as, among others, conductors Kobayashi Ken Ichiro, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Thierry Fischer, Yuri Simonov, Krzysztof Penderecki, János Fürst, Gerhard Markson, Nikolaj Znaider, Tan Dun, Gábor Takács- Nagy, Michael Halász, Zoltán Kocsis, Heinz Holliger, and soloists Gidon Kremer, Sir James Galway, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Petra Lang, Angela Hewitt, Isabelle Faust, Vadim Repin, Barbara Hendricks, Boris Berezovsky, Juliane Banse, Gilles Apap, Andrea Rost, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Angela Gheorghiu, László Polgár, Olga Kern, Jose Cura, Bobby McFerrin, Ildikó Komlósi, Anna Vinnitskaya, Branford Marsalis, Steven Isserlis, Khatia Buniatishvili. Szabolcs Szilágyi has toured in nearly all European countries, as well as Russia, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, the Middle East and the USA. He has made TV, DVD and Radio recordings, as well as CD recordings for Hungaroton, BMC, Teldec/Warner and Naxos. Since 2017 Concerto Budapest has recorded exclusively for Tacet Musikproduction of Germany.

László Borbély
He was born in 1984. In 2007 he got his diploma with honours (Master of Music in Performance and Teaching) then his doctoral degree (Doctor of Liberal Arts) at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest, where he is an assistant professor of Piano Faculty. He played concerts at international festivals such Collegium Musicum Pommersfelden (Germany), Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander (Spain), International Holland Music Sessions in Bergen (The Netherlands), TCU/Cliburn Institute in Fort Worth (USA), FestivaLiszt in Grottammare (Italy), Liszt Festival in Raiding (Austria), Liszt Festival in Bayreuth (Germany), International Bartók Festival Ankara (Turkey), International Conservatory Week Festival Saint Petersburg (Russia), Festival der Klänge in Vienna (Austria), CAFe Budapest Festival, Budapest Spring Festival (Budapest), Beethoven Festival Martonvásár (Hungary), etc. He won numerous prizes at national and international competitions. He won 2nd Prize and a special prize for the best performance of the set piece  at the EPTA International Piano Competition in Osijek (Croatia) in 2001. In 2002, he won the Yamaha Scholarship Award and also two 2nd and one 3rd prizes in different divisions of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition where he won two special prizes too: prize for the „most artistic performance” and a special prize of the American Liszt Society. He had lessons with Dmitrij Bashkirov, Christopher Elton, Noel Flores, Jan-Marisse Huizing, Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, Claudio-Martinez Mehner, Piotr Paleczny, Murray Perrahia, Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Rados, András Schiff, Elisso Virsaladze, Mikhail Voskresensky, Rita Wagner, etc.

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