Announcement
The Hungarian Liszt Society’s 35th annual
Franz Liszt International Grand Prix du Disque competition, 2010

The chairman of the jury, Sándor Falvai, the secretary of the jury, Mihály Meixner and members Márta Papp, Ádám Bosze and Attila Némethy have held a conference today about the 7 submitted discs:

1. a disc published by Hungaroton Records: Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies Egri-Pertis four-handed piano
2. a disc published by BMC Records: Liszt ’Male Choruses I.’, St. Ephraim Male choir conducted by Tamás Bubnó
3. a disc published by EMI-Hunnia Records: Liszt Songs – performed by Klára Kolonits
4. Liszt: Benediction in private edition – performed by Gergely Bogányi, piano
5. Liszt Transcriptions and Paraphrases in private edition, performed by Wojciech Waleczek, piano
6. Gray Clouds – Piano Music of Franz Liszt in private edition performed by Alexander Djordjevic, piano
7. a disc published by VAI Audio Records: Franz Liszt Sonata in B minor, Paganini Études, Mephisto Waltz – performed by Valery Kuleshov, piano

and they have taken the following decision:

The Grand Prix du Disque has been awarded to:
Alexander Djordjevic ’Gray Clouds’-Piano Music of Franz Liszt, a private edition disc

Motivation of the Jury:
The 40 years old pianist from Chicago has the key to the peculiar and meditative world of the works from Liszt’s late years. Djordjevic simply plays the sixteen pieces of different length without any kind of mannerism and with a poetic approach, finding the character and appeal of each piece.

There are no further propositions by the jury for prizes or certificates in 2010.

Budapest, June 24th 2010.

Members of the jury:

Falvai Sándor Chairman of the jury
Meixner Mihály Secretary of the jury
Pap Márta
Bosze Ádám
Némethy Attila

ARCHIVES

The Hungarian Liszt Society’s 34th annual Franz Liszt International Grand Prix du Disque competition, 2009

The Hungarian Liszt Grand prix du disque was established in 1975, and in 2009 it has been awarded for the 34th time. It is open to performers and record producers of works by Franz Liszt. Recordings submitted will be judged by a jury of renowned musicians, and awards will be given on the basis of musical genre.
The prize of a souvenir plaquette by Miklós Borsos, a certificate and the recordings given awards will be published in the September issue of the English ‘Gramophone’ magazine.

5 CDs issued in 2008, were submitted to the Hungarian Liszt Society. The 5 jury members, headed by Sándor Falvai has awarded 2 Grand Prix and 1 Diproma of Honor as follows:

- Grand Prix: Gábor Farkas, Piano-’An evening with Liszt’
Warner Music Records
- Grand Prix: István Antall, Piano – ’La leggierezza’ –archiv edition
Hungaroton Records
- Diploma of Honor: Wendy Waller, Sopran – ’Génie oblige’
Privat edition

Presentation of the award will take place on October 21st in the Old Music Academy, Budapest, with a festive concert of the awarded artists.

The competition has been sponsored by the National Cultural Fund of Hungary

18 June, Budapest

Record of decision of the jury >>>

Distribution of awards and a Gala concert will take place:
on October 22nd 2009 in Budapest.

Application for 2010:

Recordings (4 copies) must be submitted by April 30th 2010.
Address: Liszt Society, H-1064 Budapest Vörösmarty u. 35.

The jury will announce their decision on June 30th 2010.

In the year 2007, four CD-s issued by 3 producers applied for the Grand Prix:

1. Danacord, Copenhagen
Liszt: Sonata in B Minor; Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo; Gretchen
performed by Oleg Marshev, piano

2. Danacord, Copenhagen
Liszt: Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No.1. in E flat major
No.2. in A major
Totentanz
performed by Oleg Marshev, piano, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra
conductor: M. Aeschbacher

3. Harmonia Mundi – Ambronay, France
Franz Liszt & Richard Wagner – Sonatas & Metamorphoses
performed by Thomas Hitzlberger, piano – Steingraeber ’Liszt’ Piano

4. Landor Records UK
Liszt: Année de Pélerinage – Duexiéme Année : Italie
Performed by Libor Novacek, piano

The evaluation of the discs was made by the jury: (President Prof. József Soproni, Secretary Mr. Mihály Meixner, members of the jury: dr. Zsuzsanna Domokos, Mária Eckhardt, dr. Zsuzsanna Esztó) on June 20th 2007, where they brought the following decision:

The Grand Prix will be awarded to the CD Ambronay, France:
Franz Liszt & Richard Wagner – Sonatas & Metamorphoses as well as to
Thomas Hitzlberger, pianist

Justification:

Appreciation for the conception of the programme, for the historic Steingraeber piano, for the excellent, admirable booklet. Thomas Hitzlberger’s play the piano is really authentic and convincing.

A „diplôm d’honneur” will be awarded to Landor Records UK:
Liszt: Année de Pélerinage – Duexiéme Année : Italie, as well as to Libor Novacek, pianist
for the exceptional nice, engrossed performance, suggestive visualization in the Année de Pélerinage – Italie

The Liszt Ferenc Society will inform in writing the prize-winning participants about the awards, and will invite them to he giving out ceremony, which will be held on October 22nd, before the traditional Liszt gala-concert at Music Academy, Budapest