Works for piano by György Ligeti and his predecessors Franz Liszt and Béla Bartók.

Young pianists from the Chios Music High School, the Aegeas Conservatory, the National Conservatory – Chios Branch and the “Echohromata” Conservatory, worked with pianist Konstantinos Destounis and present Ligeti’s Musica Ricercata and other works for piano-4 hands. Ligeti’s music is preceded by works of Franz Liszt and Bella Bartók offering a program that exhibits a fabulous line up of Hungarian composers spanning the 19th and 20th centuries.

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - Mephisto Waltz No.1

Bella Bartók (1881-1945) - Out of Doors, Book 2
     I. The Night's Music
     II. The Chase

György Ligeti (1923-2006) - Étude No. 2 ‘Cordes à vide’

Konstantinos Destounis, piano

György Ligeti (1923-2006) - Musica Ricercata
     I. Sostenuto – Misurato – Prestissimo
     II. Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale
     III. Allegro con spirito
     IV. Tempo di valse (poco vivace – « à l’orgue de Barbarie »)
     V. Rubato. Lamentoso
     VI. Allegro molto capriccioso
     VII. Cantabile, molto legato
     VIII. Vivace. Energico 
     IX. (Béla Bartók in Memoriam) Adagio. Mesto – Allegro maestoso
     X. Vivace. Capriccioso
     XI. (Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi) Andante misurato e tranquillo

     Piano: Theodora Iliopoulou, Marieta Ganiari, Maya Strava-Kokkinou,
                Ariadne Vataki, Dimitris Kreatsoulas
     

György Ligeti (1923-2006) – Works for piano-4 hands (14’)
     - Induló (March)
     - Polifón etüd (Polyphonic Etude)
     - Három lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances)
          Ι. A kapuban a szekér (The Cart is at the Gate)
          ΙΙ. Hopp ide tisztán (Quickly come here pretty)
          ΙΙΙ. Csángó forgós (Circling Dance)

     - Sonatina
          Ι. Allegro
          II. Andante
          III. Vivace

     - Allegro

     Piano: Ariadne Vataki, Giorgos Fotinelis, Ploumisti Moustridi,
                Anthippi Halkousaki, Andriane Melachrinoudi, Maria Stathi