Reflections on Beauty Gergely Bogányi & Misi Boros

• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): Clair de Lune:
• 1 Debussy: Clair de Lune 04:18
• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886): Liebesträume:
• 2 Liszt: Liebesträume 04:30
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Moonlight Sonata:
• 3 Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata 06:04
• Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943): Prelude Op. 3 No. 2:
• 4 Rachmaninov: Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 04:14
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Prelude in C major, BWV 846:
• 5 Bach: Prelude in C major, BWV 846 02:13
• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Nocturne Op. 27 No 2:
• 6 Chopin: Nocturne Op. 27 No 2 06:02
• Frédéric Chopin: Prelude Op. 28. No 15:
• 7 Chopin: Prelude Op. 28. No 15 06:09
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Für Elise:
• 8 Beethoven: Für Elise 02:56
• Total Runtime 36:26

Info for Reflections on Beauty

The piano pieces featured in this recording reflect in different ways on the question: “What is beautiful?” They answer the question by laying hold to the forces of our mind and soul and restructuring them in a peculiar, unexpected manner. If these pieces are beautiful then - by listening to them - we become able to exist in the beautiful and by the beautiful, without knowing or even needing to say more. We marvel at the many faces, the varied character and content of beauty. It is fascinating to discover how many things can be beautiful, how many contexts, experiences, thoughts and emotions feed into what we call beauty in music. Music has many faces and reflects and presents beauty in a multitude of ways.

Gergely Bogányi, Bogányi B-292 Grand Piano
Misi Boros, Bogányi B-292 Grand Piano

Gergely Bogányi
He was born in Vác, Hungary, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He was awarded his first music prize at the age of six, and three years later, at nine, he won first prize at the National Piano Competition in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Finland, at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and at the University Academy of Music in Bloomington, USA. He attended master classes with Dmitry Bashkirov, András Schiff, Annie Fischer, Murray Perahia and Ferenc Rados. He has been awarded prizes at numerous international piano competitions, such as the International Piano Competition in the former Czechoslovakia, the International Piano Competition in Epinal, France, the International Piano Competition in Ettlingen, Germany and the "Helmi-Vesa Piano Competition" of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Bogányi has won First Prizes at the Chopin Piano Competition of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, the Mozart Piano Competition in Hungary and the International Piano Competition in Indianapolis, USA. He also won First Prize at the International Liszt Competition in Budapest in autumn 1996. As a soloist he performs regularly in Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Estonia and in Italy. Many of his concerts have been recorded by radio and television stations. In Hungary he has performed with all the major orchestras, in Finland with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra and in Holland with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

Misi Boros
has been playing the piano since the age of 4. Starting at the age of 8, he won first place in eleven age-group competitions in his native Hungary, and he has also won competitions in Rome, Milan, and Paris. Between 2013 and 2022, he gave 300 public concerts in cities beyond historic Hungary, including New York, Milan, Zurich, Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Brussels, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Munich, Zagreb, Paris, Aix-en-Provence, London, Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Sao Paulo, and other cities. At the age of 10, in 2013, he participated in Lang Lang's International Children's Course in Munich. The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: ”Some children are absolutely fabulous. For example Mihály Boros Brambauer (2003), who plays with distinction, finds a lot of joy in music, and at the same time is a little intellectual with a sense for arches and dynamics." (SZ 8 November 2013) In 2017, he gave a solo concert at the Palace of Arts (Budapest, Hungary)…with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert recording was praised by the Guardian. He has performed with twenty-two conductors and nineteen orchestras. Misi is currently a student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. He is a Junior Prima Prize winner.

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