Product Overview
Chopin - Piano Music / Endre Hegedűs piano / Live Recording / Audio CD 1996 / Hungaroton
HCD31700
UPC 5991813170026
MADE IN HUNGARY
TOTAL TIME: 75:17
Endre Hegedűs (born 1954 in Hungary) is an internationally known piano soloist. He graduated from Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a pianist, both performing artist and teacher in 1980. Since 1999 he has been a professor of the Academy.
Hegedűs has participated in 20 international piano competitions and has won several prizes among them first prizes in Monza and at the Rachmaninov Competition in Morcone, both in Italy. During the Liszt Centennial Year in 1986 he was awarded the Franz Liszt Commemorative Plate of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and the International Liszt Society for his outstanding interpretations of works by the great composer Franz Liszt.
He has recorded 27 albums under the labels Hungaroton, Marco Polo and Studio Liszt Productions. His album containing the complete Bellini-LIszt operatic fantasies published by the Hungaroton in 1993 received the Franz Liszt International Grand Prix du Disque from the International Liszt Society. Hungarian television companies made 12 films taken from his public concerts and transmitted them on various occasions. The total length of these films exceeds 18 hours.
Live concert recording
Endre Hegedűs – Steinway piano
Tracklist:
1./ Sonata in B minor, op. 58 25’04″
2./ Nocturne in B-flat minor, op. 9 No. 1 5’29″
3./ Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9 No. 2 4’02″
4./ Polonaise in C-sharp minor, op. 26 No. 1 8’02″
5./ Polonaise in A major, op. 40 No. 1 4’44″
6./ Scherzo in B-flat minor, op. 31 9’56″
7./ Mazurka in F-sharp minor, op. 59 No. 3 3’34″
8./ Ballad in F minor, op. 52 10’30″
9./ Etude in C minor, op. 10 No.12 3’10″
