András Ágoston & Miklós Perényi - J.Brahms: Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102

Johannes Brahms
(7 May 1833 -- 3 April 1897)

Double Concerto in A minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra Op.102 (1887)

András Ágoston - violin
Miklós Perényi - cello

Péter Csaba - Conductor
Budapest Concert Orchestra MÁV



The hungarian violinist András Ágoston was born in Cluj,Transylvania (Romania). He began studying the violin with Paula Kouba and Péter Zsurka. Ágoston continued his studies under István Ruha's guidance at the " Gheorghe Dima " Music Academy in his native town and after his graduating became a professor of the Academy for 20 years. He has been awarded several international prizes:
- J.S.Bach Competitions in Leipzig
- P.I.Tchaikowsky Competition in Moscow
- G.Enescu Competition in Bucharest
- Top prize winner of the Tibor Varga (Sion) and the David Oistrakh (Vienna) Competitions. András Ágoston has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States, as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician,with orchestras such as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkunstler Orchester Wien, the Moscow Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia (Poland), Philarmonia Hungarica (Germany), Lisbon Philharmonic (Portugal), Sofia National Radio Orchestra (Bulgaria), Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (China), the Tokyo Ensemble (Japan), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Strings, Bucharest "G. Enescu" Philharmonic (Romania), Bucharest National Radio Orchestra, and the Cluj "Transylvania" Philharmonic, among others, and has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, including Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Yuri Temirkanov, Justus Frantz, Roman Kofman, Emil Tabakov, Isreal Yinon, Gerard Oskamp, Ervin Lukacs, Tamas Gal, Erich Bergel, Cristian Mandeal, Emil Simon, and Johannes Wildner.He performs reguraly at the Haydn Festival in Fertőd, and holds several times masterclasses in Budapest,Miskolc,Fertőd and Nebraska.


Miklós Perényi is recognised as one of the great cellists of his generation, with a distinctive, subtly nuanced sound matched by extraordinary musicality.
Born in Hungary, he began cello lessons at the age of five with Miklós Zsámboki, a student of David Popper. At the age of nine, he gave his first concert in Budapest and went on to study between 1960 and 1964 with Enrico Mainardi in Rome and, in Budapest, with Ede Banda. In 1963 he became a prizewinner at the International Pablo Casals Cello Competition in Budapest. Casals invited him to his master classes in Puerto Rico in 1965 and 1966, and he went on to become a frequent visitor to the Marlboro Festival.

In 1974, Miklós Perényi joined the faculty at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, where he has held a professorship since 1980. He was honoured with the Kossuth-Prize in 1980 and the Bartók-Pásztory-Prize in 1987.
Perényi has appeared in the world's major musical centres, performing regularly around Europe, in Japan and China and in North and South America. His festival engagements have included Edinburgh, Lucerne, Prague, Salzburg, Vienna, Hohenems, Warsaw, Berlin, Kronberg, and the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades in France.
With a repertoire ranging from the 17th century to the present, he appears as a soloist with orchestra, in solo and duo recitals and in chamber ensembles. Beyond performing and teaching, he also devotes his energies to composition of works for solo cello and for instrumental ensembles of various sizes.
Among his closest colleagues is the pianist András Schiff, with whom he has appeared at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Edinburgh Festival and the Ruhr Festival. Recently, the duo played at Cologne's Philharmonie, the Schwetzingen Festival, London's Wigmore Hall and the 92nd Street in New York.

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