At our third afternoon concert, the festival audience will enjoy the performance of Ilya Kondratiev, an internationally renowned pianist and chamber musician born in Russia and living in London since 2014. Kondratiev, a two-time prizewinner of the Liszt Competition, is a faculty member at the Royal College of Music in London, one of the world's most prestigious music education institutions. He has previously collaborated with such prominent figures as Elisabeth Leonskaya, Leslie Howard, and Lang Lang.
The program includes real rarities in the music history, most of which are arrangements or adaptations: J. S. Bach’s opening piece is an adaptation of a concerto originally written for oboe, Liszt's Sarabande and Chaconne are based on two themes from Handel’s first opera, and César Franck’s work originally written for organ will be presented in Harold Bauer's arrangement. The concert will conclude with a very well-known piece: Ferruccio Busoni's spectacular piano arrangement of Bach’s famous Chaconne from the D minor violin partita, created in 1893, which remains a staple of the concert repertoire today.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Oboe Concerto in D minor, BWV 974 after A. Marcello
Ferenc Liszt: Sarabande and Chaconne on Haydn’s Opera Almira, S.181
César Franck: Prelude, Fugue and Variation Op.18 (transcription by Harold Bauer)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaconne, BWV 1004 (arranged by Ferruccio Busoni)
Perfomer:
Ilya Kondratiev (Russia/UK) – piano
Our supporters and partners:
All My Friends Are Stars Festival, Camões Institute, Cervantes Institute, Coudenberg Sound Box Fest, Czech Centre Budapest, European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists, Fidelio, FUGA, Mente Festival, MMA Artistic Scholarship Program, NKA, Polish Chamber Musicians’ Association, Romanian Cultural Institute, Embassy of Spain in Budapest, Support Excellence, Clean Forms Foundation, V4 Music Foundation, V4 String Quartet, Visegrad Fund, Waclaw Felczak Foundation