25 Feb 2025

Adam Chamber Music Festival 2024 - The Romantic Bartók

From Music Alive, 8:00 pm on 25 February 2025

Hungarian pianists Izabella Simon and Dénes Várjon bring us a programme of music by their countrymen Franz Liszt and Bela Bartók - his very rarely heard Piano Quintet, written early in his life when he was still writing in a late-Romantic style.

Pianist Denes Varjon and the New Zealand String Quartet pose on stage following their performance of the Piano Quintet by Bela Bartok at the 2024 Adam Chamber Music Festival. Denes holds the score.

Dénes Várjon (centre) and the New Zealand String Quartet Photo: Melissa Banks

Izabella Simon (piano)

Dénes Várjon (piano), New Zealand String Quartet

Recorded by RNZ Concert, Nelson Centre of Musical Arts, 10 February 2024
Producer: Tim Dodd
Engineer: Darryl Stack