It is for the first time we choose a violin recital(duo program) for festival opening and we look forward to listen to the superb performance of this two young artists. Liszt’s music for violin and piano reflects the composer’s friendship to several violinists whom assisted him at various stages in his understanding of fiddle. Liszt first heard Paganini in 1831 and was so entranced by the unfettered expressiveness of his playing, that the young Liszt immediately declared his intention of achieving upon the piano an equivalent new technical mastery.
Tzigane (Gypsy) by Ravel was commissioned by and dedicated to Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi. Tzigane emonstrates Ravel's ability to revive the late Romantic style of violin showmanship promoted by such composer-virtuosi as Paganini and Sarasate.

Franz Liszt, Works for Violin and Piano:
Liszt’s music for violin and piano reflects the composer’s friendship to several violinists hom assisted him at various stages in his understanding of fiddle. During his early years in Weimar he became best of friends with Ede Reményi (1830-1898), for whom Liszt is suppose to have written his violin concerto.

Romance oubliée, S132ter (1880):
This work has it origins in a song which Liszt composed as early as 1843: O pourquoi donc. The song was published in Moscow in 1844. Liszt made a piano transcription of it in 1848 under title of Romance. In 1880 Liszt was sent a copy of the piano piece by the Hanover publisher Arnold Simon, who requested permission to reprint it. Instead, Liszt reworked the piece completely, in a version for viola, violin or cello and piano. The new coda in this work is clearly inspired by the figuration in the solo viola part at the end of the slow movement of Berlioz’s Harold en Italie.