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Csaba Király
8 pm, 22nd August 2010 - Organ - Accordion Recital in Siofok (Hungary)
Since several years, this time the 14th "Master Course for Keyboard Instruments" will be held in August 2010 in Siofok,
(7 times) organized by the SIofok Art School. As an opening event of the six-day intensive master course, recital will be
given by the organist Csaba Király and by the accordionist Tibor Rácz in the Lutheran (Makovecz) Church.
Entry free.
Programme:
J. S. BACH: 3 Trio Sonatas: D minor BWV 527; C major BWV 529; G major BWV 530
J. S. BACH: Prelude and Fugue C minor BWV 549
Giovanni Benedetto PIATTI: Adagio and Allegro from the Sonata C minor (Nr. 8)
Jaromír BAZANT: Prelude and Toccata
MOZART: Adagio for glas accordion
Frantisek BROZ: Chromatic variations
CSABA KIRÁLY - TIBOR RÁCZ: Improvisation
Entry HUF 500.
Welcome to the concert!
Gabor Nemeth director, Art School, SIofok
Website of the master course
Huge organ recital will be held on 14th October at the great organ of the Palace of Arts
Csaba Király belongs to the adventurous exceptions, and it seems he remains true to himself also in 2010. On 14th
October he is undertaking a monumental organ recital, as if he were trying to get into music’s Guinness book of
records. He will perform great orchestral works alone at the 5 manual organ of the Béla Bartók Concert Hall at the
Palace of Arts, Budapest. This has come to be expected of him, since in the last two decades we have heard him
carry out numerous similar feats. For example Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Liszt’s Danse Macabre and Les Préludes,
Mendelssohn’s incidental music to “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, and even Mahler’s “Symphony of a thousand” with
singers and instrumentalists. This time however he is undertaking a huge task, bigger than the preceding ones and
which requires extraordinary skill both in the technical preparation and physical fitness.
One of the curiosities of his recital programme is three movements from Stravinsky’s ballet suite “Petrushka” as
transcribed by the world famous French organist, Jean Guillou. It is not by accident that this piece does not figure on
the repertoire list of even the greatest organists. To perform such a piece at this difficult level, a year’s fanatical
practising is not sufficient. To carry this out, one must be intrinsically born to it. Ab ovo, without the adequate skill,
all attempts are doomed to failure. Besides the Stravinsky, the concert holds further new things after the interval, all
transcribed by Csaba Király.
Beethoven’s Ouverture “Egmont“ is heard as the first piece of the concert, which, after the orchestral version, is
mostly known as a four-hand piece. Then comes an almost 40 minute-long astonishing movement, the Dies irae from
Verdi’s Requiem. To finish the concert, three movements will be heard from Beethoven’s immortal Symphonies: the
second movements of the Seventh Symphony and the Ninth Symphony, and the first movement of the Fifth Symphony.
I am curious to know how this impossibly challenging musical enterprise will succeed. Its realization requires not only
daredevilry and strength of will, but exceptional technical and musical skills, and the skill of a great magician with the
requisite humility. Join me, and let us meet at the Palace of Arts on 14th October.
News compiled by Laszlo Gombos musicologist
Receiving the habilitation degree at the University of Pecs
We praudly inform our readers, that Csaba Király received his habilitation diploma on 11th March 2010. The award
ceremony took place in the aula of the Faculty of Adult Education and Human Resources Development at the
University of Pécs. The event was graced with several high-ranking persons, such as with the former president of the
parliament, Katalin Szili, with the mayor of Pécs Zsolt Páva, with the bishops Mihály Mayer from Pécs, Antal Spányi
from Székesfehérvár, Dr. Lajos Pápai from Győr and further important leader persons.The flutist, the Associate
professor of the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, Béla Drahos and professors from other Faculties have also been
awarded with this dimploma. Congratulation!
Management of the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, the University of Pécs
5th March 2010
Subscribe to newsletters to get the latest news, announcements about the artist’s musical activities.
Award-winning Concert Pianist and Organist
Organ recital in the Basilica in Pecs, on 22nd July 2010
A warm summer evening, full house in the Basilica, and Csaba Kiraly at the organ, Liszt scores on the music stand.
Everything is OK for a really enjoyable concert, which was organized as a benefit concert as part of the Pécs Diocesan
Caritas Week. The takings from the concert were donated to the flood victims.
The concert began unusually with the Legend of Saint Elizabeth, of which the meditative introduction to part one
provided us with an unexpected, exciting beginning, then it gradually opened out to a chorale-like „spot” in E major,
from where the piece returned again to the „Liszt-shades”. After this, Excelsior with its harmonies and rhythms were
taking effect on the audience, which was affected by the inspired performance. „Zur Trauung” and the Consolation in
D flat major took us into the world of the lyric style of Liszt works, which was followed by the Papst Hymnus with its
majestical, solemn melodies and harmonies. Next two monumental Liszt pieces were at the end of the concert: first
Evocation, which is an adaptation of Allegri’s Miserere and Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus. However this dual contrast was
executed in a really exciting and varied way both by subjective intensity of the performance and by the picturesque
registration. One of Liszt’s best known works, the Prelude and Fugue on the name B-A-C-H, was performed as the final
piece of the concert, in which Csaba Kiraly's splendid virtuosity showed itself, as well as that he also had left plenty of
energy to express the music beautifully.
To summarize, we heard an exceptionally colourful programme, exciting, often with brilliant registration and perfect
formation, which all prove his deep knowledge of the Liszt-ouvre.
Compiled by Sándor Balatoni, organist of the Sacred Heart (Pius) Church in Pécs
24th July 2010
Memorable performance of Liszt's B minor Sonata and improvisation in Liszt’s style
Several society members attended the club-day concert of the Budapest Group of the Liszt Society, held on 28th
April 2010 in the Franz Liszt Chamber Hall of the Old Music Academy, Budapest. The concert pianist and organist
Csaba Király gave an exclusive piano recital of works by Chopin and Liszt. Csaba Király is the secretary-general of
the Liszt Society - though due to the increased number of his artistic obligations, he will resign his position before
the members of the entire society at the general assembly in Szeged on 11th May – and he provided the attending
friends of Liszt with a splendid experience.
This year the bicentenary of Chopin is being celebrated worldwide, and among his works he played the Fantasy in F
minor (op. 49) and the Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise (op. 22): the grateful audience acknowledged these
relatively rarely heard pieces with pleasure. "The pièce de résistance" of the concert was Liszt's Sonata in B minor in
his performance, which was both an exceptionally mature and especial intonated and inspired interpretation. This
work is known as the one of the piano pieces of the 19th century of inspired genius, an "unavoidable ordeal" for
every pianist, though many pianists go to the wall when playing it. Csaba Király obviously has been keeping the
Sonata for long time in his repertory, the performance gave the impression that the artist - by perfectly possessing
the required technique - was even now still shaping the essence of the musical "message" with a recollection of its
true realization, intense admiration. There was an especially "poignant" part before the last Andante sostenuto, the
giant tension of the long silence, followed by the tremendous increase of the Stretta and the "grandioso summit",
and next, the very end of the piece.
During the ovation of the audience, when Csaba Király was sitting at the piano without saying a word, many people
thought that a recently discovered grandioso Liszt work was being performed - however the artist gave us evidence
of his improvisational skill in the style of Liszt, of the period of his years at Weimar, when the B minor Sonata was
created. At some moments a few harmonic patterns were also related to the world of late romantic music, but
fundamentally the thematic material, the musical setting, the formation of the directly created grandioso work was
almost the same as one of Liszt's compositions. Unfortunately there are only a very few performing artists in classical
music who are able to improvise at a high level. However Csaba Király has improvised since his childhood, and his
skill has improved to a masterly level. We are looking forward to the International Symposium combined with
competitions, master classes and concerts, entitled "IMPROVISATIO - CREATIO", which he has organized on his own
initiative, to be held in Pécs, a European Capital of Culture, between 5 and 12 September, where Csaba Király will
also take part as one of the professors.
Created by Mária Eckhardt
/chief adviser and academic director of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre/
5th May 2010
8 pm, 22nd August 2010 - Organ - Accordion Recital in Siofok (Hungary)
Since several years, this time the 14th "Master Course for Keyboard Instruments" will be held in August 2010 in Siofok,
(7 times) organized by the SIofok Art School. As an opening event of the six-day intensive master course, recital will be
given by the organist Csaba Király and by the accordionist Tibor Rácz in the Lutheran (Makovecz) Church.
Entry free.
Programme:
J. S. BACH: 3 Trio Sonatas: D minor BWV 527; C major BWV 529; G major BWV 530
J. S. BACH: Prelude and Fugue C minor BWV 549
Giovanni Benedetto PIATTI: Adagio and Allegro from the Sonata C minor (Nr. 8)
Jaromír BAZANT: Prelude and Toccata
MOZART: Adagio for glas accordion
Frantisek BROZ: Chromatic variations
CSABA KIRÁLY - TIBOR RÁCZ: Improvisation
Entry HUF 500.
Welcome to the concert!
Gabor Nemeth director, Art School, SIofok
Website of the master course
Huge organ recital will be held on 14th October at the great organ of the Palace of Arts
Csaba Király belongs to the adventurous exceptions, and it seems he remains true to himself also in 2010. On 14th
October he is undertaking a monumental organ recital, as if he were trying to get into music’s Guinness book of
records. He will perform great orchestral works alone at the 5 manual organ of the Béla Bartók Concert Hall at the
Palace of Arts, Budapest. This has come to be expected of him, since in the last two decades we have heard him
carry out numerous similar feats. For example Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Liszt’s Danse Macabre and Les Préludes,
Mendelssohn’s incidental music to “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, and even Mahler’s “Symphony of a thousand” with
singers and instrumentalists. This time however he is undertaking a huge task, bigger than the preceding ones and
which requires extraordinary skill both in the technical preparation and physical fitness.
One of the curiosities of his recital programme is three movements from Stravinsky’s ballet suite “Petrushka” as
transcribed by the world famous French organist, Jean Guillou. It is not by accident that this piece does not figure on
the repertoire list of even the greatest organists. To perform such a piece at this difficult level, a year’s fanatical
practising is not sufficient. To carry this out, one must be intrinsically born to it. Ab ovo, without the adequate skill,
all attempts are doomed to failure. Besides the Stravinsky, the concert holds further new things after the interval, all
transcribed by Csaba Király.
Beethoven’s Ouverture “Egmont“ is heard as the first piece of the concert, which, after the orchestral version, is
mostly known as a four-hand piece. Then comes an almost 40 minute-long astonishing movement, the Dies irae from
Verdi’s Requiem. To finish the concert, three movements will be heard from Beethoven’s immortal Symphonies: the
second movements of the Seventh Symphony and the Ninth Symphony, and the first movement of the Fifth Symphony.
I am curious to know how this impossibly challenging musical enterprise will succeed. Its realization requires not only
daredevilry and strength of will, but exceptional technical and musical skills, and the skill of a great magician with the
requisite humility. Join me, and let us meet at the Palace of Arts on 14th October.
News compiled by Laszlo Gombos musicologist
Receiving the habilitation degree at the University of Pecs
We praudly inform our readers, that Csaba Király received his habilitation diploma on 11th March 2010. The award
ceremony took place in the aula of the Faculty of Adult Education and Human Resources Development at the
University of Pécs. The event was graced with several high-ranking persons, such as with the former president of the
parliament, Katalin Szili, with the mayor of Pécs Zsolt Páva, with the bishops Mihály Mayer from Pécs, Antal Spányi
from Székesfehérvár, Dr. Lajos Pápai from Győr and further important leader persons.The flutist, the Associate
professor of the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, Béla Drahos and professors from other Faculties have also been
awarded with this dimploma. Congratulation!
Management of the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, the University of Pécs
5th March 2010
Subscribe to newsletters to get the latest news, announcements about the artist’s musical activities.
Organ recital in the Basilica in Pecs, on 22nd July 2010
A warm summer evening, full house in the Basilica, and Csaba Kiraly at the organ, Liszt scores on the music stand.
Everything is OK for a really enjoyable concert, which was organized as a benefit concert as part of the Pécs Diocesan
Caritas Week. The takings from the concert were donated to the flood victims.
The concert began unusually with the Legend of Saint Elizabeth, of which the meditative introduction to part one
provided us with an unexpected, exciting beginning, then it gradually opened out to a chorale-like „spot” in E major,
from where the piece returned again to the „Liszt-shades”. After this, Excelsior with its harmonies and rhythms were
taking effect on the audience, which was affected by the inspired performance. „Zur Trauung” and the Consolation in
D flat major took us into the world of the lyric style of Liszt works, which was followed by the Papst Hymnus with its
majestical, solemn melodies and harmonies. Next two monumental Liszt pieces were at the end of the concert: first
Evocation, which is an adaptation of Allegri’s Miserere and Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus. However this dual contrast was
executed in a really exciting and varied way both by subjective intensity of the performance and by the picturesque
registration. One of Liszt’s best known works, the Prelude and Fugue on the name B-A-C-H, was performed as the final
piece of the concert, in which Csaba Kiraly's splendid virtuosity showed itself, as well as that he also had left plenty of
energy to express the music beautifully.
To summarize, we heard an exceptionally colourful programme, exciting, often with brilliant registration and perfect
formation, which all prove his deep knowledge of the Liszt-ouvre.
Compiled by Sándor Balatoni, organist of the Sacred Heart (Pius) Church in Pécs
24th July 2010
Memorable performance of Liszt's B minor Sonata and improvisation in Liszt’s style
Several society members attended the club-day concert of the Budapest Group of the Liszt Society, held on 28th
April 2010 in the Franz Liszt Chamber Hall of the Old Music Academy, Budapest. The concert pianist and organist
Csaba Király gave an exclusive piano recital of works by Chopin and Liszt. Csaba Király is the secretary-general of
the Liszt Society - though due to the increased number of his artistic obligations, he will resign his position before
the members of the entire society at the general assembly in Szeged on 11th May – and he provided the attending
friends of Liszt with a splendid experience.
This year the bicentenary of Chopin is being celebrated worldwide, and among his works he played the Fantasy in F
minor (op. 49) and the Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise (op. 22): the grateful audience acknowledged these
relatively rarely heard pieces with pleasure. "The pièce de résistance" of the concert was Liszt's Sonata in B minor in
his performance, which was both an exceptionally mature and especial intonated and inspired interpretation. This
work is known as the one of the piano pieces of the 19th century of inspired genius, an "unavoidable ordeal" for
every pianist, though many pianists go to the wall when playing it. Csaba Király obviously has been keeping the
Sonata for long time in his repertory, the performance gave the impression that the artist - by perfectly possessing
the required technique - was even now still shaping the essence of the musical "message" with a recollection of its
true realization, intense admiration. There was an especially "poignant" part before the last Andante sostenuto, the
giant tension of the long silence, followed by the tremendous increase of the Stretta and the "grandioso summit",
and next, the very end of the piece.
During the ovation of the audience, when Csaba Király was sitting at the piano without saying a word, many people
thought that a recently discovered grandioso Liszt work was being performed - however the artist gave us evidence
of his improvisational skill in the style of Liszt, of the period of his years at Weimar, when the B minor Sonata was
created. At some moments a few harmonic patterns were also related to the world of late romantic music, but
fundamentally the thematic material, the musical setting, the formation of the directly created grandioso work was
almost the same as one of Liszt's compositions. Unfortunately there are only a very few performing artists in classical
music who are able to improvise at a high level. However Csaba Király has improvised since his childhood, and his
skill has improved to a masterly level. We are looking forward to the International Symposium combined with
competitions, master classes and concerts, entitled "IMPROVISATIO - CREATIO", which he has organized on his own
initiative, to be held in Pécs, a European Capital of Culture, between 5 and 12 September, where Csaba Király will
also take part as one of the professors.
Created by Mária Eckhardt
/chief adviser and academic director of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre/
5th May 2010
