FERENC LISZT - from the piano cycle "Years of Wanderings" (Années de pèlerinage):
"Première année: Suisse";
"Second year: Italy" ("Deuxième année: Italie");
Note - the pieces of the cycle selected by the pianist will be played.
The Vilnius Festival invites you to a magnificent journey in the orbit of Western European culture! This year's festival recital by Mūza Rubackytė, an outstanding performer, winner of the National Prize, resident in Vilnius, Paris and Geneva and a pianist who performs all over the world, is the most impressive parts of Ferenc Liszt's "Years of Wandering" cycle, conveying the composer's and universal human life and love story, surrounded by cultural and natural connotations . "Together with the audience, let's travel through time and space like a ship, experiencing the evolution of the soul's joy and suffering," M. Rubackytė said.
While traveling with his beloved, the young Liszt experiences deep feelings. In Switzerland, the sensitive nature of the artist is permeated by the majestic beauty and tranquility of nature; Italy fascinates Liszt with the masterpieces of the great masters. Petrarch's sonnets reflect his experiences from passion and despair to bliss, and after experiencing the torments of hell in Dante's "Divine Comedy", the creator bursts into the light.
"Liszt's music runs like a golden thread through my biography ... I am always full of love for him," said the pianist, named "one of the best living Liszt performers" by the prestigious magazine Fanfare (USA). M. Rubackytė is a member of the International F. Liszt Associations (ILA) office, the president of the F. Liszt Society in Lithuania "LiSZtuania", a long-time member of the jury of international F. Liszt pianist competitions in Utrecht, Parma and elsewhere. in 2002 M. Rubackytė performed the entire magnificent "Years of Wandering" trilogy in one day at the Olivier Messiaen Hall in Paris, later this project was repeated at the Liszt birth and death anniversary festivals in Riding, Bayreuth, the Paris Opera, important French festivals, the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw and elsewhere; the pianist performs this cycle and other works by Liszt in concert halls around the world; released a triple album, enthusiastically received by the press (BBC Magazine, Piano Magazine, etc.). M. Rubackytė is the president of the national competition "Lisztofonija" and the founder of the Vilnius International Piano Music Festival (2009) and artistic director.
