The new season will begin with a solo recital with a programme consisting of pieces by Chopin and Liszt at Chopin’s birthplace in Żelazova Wola and then will continue in Moscow where Balázs Fülei will play Dohnányi’s Piano Concerto No.1.

Liszt and Rahmaninoff were proud of their friendship with Leopold Auer, the Hungarian violinist born in Veszprém and then conquering Europe and America as well; Tchaikovsky has dedicated his Violin Concerto in D major to him.

In a few days, on July 7th, for the third time already, the Echo Summer Academy will begin in the Károlyi Castle in Fehérvárcsurgó.

On June 26th Balázs Fülei will give a solo recital in Prague in a church with a unique atmosphere, the Kostel sv. Vavrince. 

Applications for this year's Echo Summer Academy will be accepted until June 10th.

„You will truly understand the Fantasy if you recall the unhappy summer of 1836 when it seemed I had to give you up.” – wrote Robert Schumann to his fiancée, Clara Wieck.

On June 15th two anniversaries will meet: on the Margaret Island Open-air Stage celebrating its 80th birthday this year, Balázs Fülei and the National Philharmonic will play the Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor composed by Ernő Dohnányi 120 years ago; this concert will be the opening event of the three-month long Budapest Summer Festival. 

Beyond composing music, collecting folk songs was Bartók’s most favoured activity; he has mentioned in several letters how much he enjoyed his collecting tours.

His peers have described Felix Mendelssohn as attractive, lovable and endlessly benevolent, whose letters radiate serenity and a basically balanced mentality.

„On May 7th there was another Caroussel, after which a Concert was held at the Buda Theatrum during which a famous musician called Beethoven was skillfully playing the Forte Piano attracting everyone’s kind attention” – wrote the Magyar Kurir on May 8th of 1800 about the then thirty-year-old, but already renowned master whose invitation was recommended by Ferenc Brunszvik.

As Olivier Messiaen recalled never had been his piece listened to with such rapt attention and comprehension than on that miserable, snowy night. The venue was the prisoner-of-war camp near Görlitz, the date was January 15th, 1941.