Egri & Pertis Piano Duo: Cross Currents 15. | If Johann Strauss Had Been an Ice Dancer…
Sergei Prokofiev: Waltz on Ice, Op. 122
Giacomo Meyerbeer: Three Scenes from the opera Le Prophète (1. Arrival of the Skaters, 2. Waltz, 3. Ice Dance)
Émile Waldteufel: The Skaters' Waltz, Op. 183
Franz Liszt: The Skaters – Scherzo (Illustrations No. 2 from Meyerbeer's Le Prophète)
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Franz Lehár: Ballroom Sirens Waltz – On Themes from The Merry Widow
Johann Strauss II: Voices of Spring – Waltz, Op. 410
Johann Strauss II: Thunder and Lightning – Fast Polka, Op. 324
Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a – excerpts (1. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, 2. Chinese Dance, 3. Arabian Dance, 4. Waltz of the Flowers)
- Mónika Egri, Attila Pertis – piano
- Guest artists: Krisztina Regőczy and András Sallay, three-time world champions and Olympic silver medalist ice dance pair
- Host: Szilvia Becze
With the power of music and the imagination of composers, the Egri & Pertis Piano Duo will transform the stage into an ice rink. This December event in the Cross‑Currents concert series, which explores the relationship between music and other art forms, will focus on a special winter theme: the inseparable connection between ice dance and music.
The evocative programme will also hold a few surprises. Alongside the most beautiful, iconic melodies of the ice rink (Johann Strauss Jr., Tchaikovsky), which have inspired countless ice dance choreographies, the audience will discover influences in the opposite direction as well, when ice dance stirred the imagination of composers such as Prokofiev, Meyerbeer, and Liszt.
The guest artists of the concert, Krisztina Regőczy and András Sallay, the three-time world champion and Olympic silver medal-winning ice dance pair, will shed light on the artistic resonances between ice dance and music in a brief Hungarian on-stage conversation.
The evening devoted to the magic of ice and music will once again be hosted by Szilvia Becze, the popular editor and presenter of Bartók Radio.
The series is supported by OTP Bank.
Photo: Mátyás Baranyai, Kriszta Falus
Tickets are available for 4900 HUF on the spot, online at jegy.hu,
and at InterTicket Jegypont partners across Hungary.
Students and pensioners can purchase tickets for the concert at a price of 3,500 HUF. Proof of eligibility for the discount will be checked at the venue.
