Mikrokozmosz Trio: Zsófia Fórizs, Boglárka Forgó, Áron Lescsinszky Presented by Liszt Academy

The Mikrokozmosz Trio, formed from Liszt Academy students, has been performing for over two years, and this concert will feature three rarely played works. Leoš Janáček, a Moravian composer, was ahead of his time in many ways. His career bears some resemblance to Bartók’s, despite Janáček being almost two generations older. His music features significant elements of Moravian folk music, which are paired with increasingly blurred tonality. Janáček’s work, originally written for string quartet, was later transcribed for piano trio and is known as Kreutzer Sonata, inspired by a Tolstoy novella, which in turn was influenced by Beethoven’s violin-piano sonata. Janáček’s late composition evokes the tone of his mature works, which, along with pieces by Bartók and Schönberg, were first heard by audiences of the era. The centerpiece of the program is a work by the 20th-century cellist-composer Mátyás Seiber, written for cello and violin, and whose title means “sonata in the room”. The title refers to the work’s core identity: focused chamber music and intimate ensemble playing. The concert will conclude with Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, a piano trio composition. However, don’t be misled by the title: the composer also used this name for a previous piano cycle and a clarinet-piano work. It is no coincidence that the piano trio bears the same title, as the movements speak for themselves: Romanze, Humoreske, Duett, and Finale.