Bartók: Piano works

• Klara Würtz is one of the most exciting musical talents that has come our way in a long time! And we at Globe were so happy with the musical result that we decided to release this CD (which was recorded last October, so barely three weeks ago!) immediately.

• For this, her debut CD, Miss Würtz herself chose a program of works by her fellow-countryman, the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, works that are very dear to her. and which she studied with Zoltan Kocsis.

• At the time of release of this CD the artist is on an extended concert tour of the United States which will include a recital at the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.!

• A striking cover, beautiful piano sound of the recording (demonstration quality!), and an informative introduction to Bartok and his piano works in the booklet.

 

Born in Budapest in 1965, Hungarian pianist Klara Würtz started playing the piano at the age of six. Showing an extraordinary affinity for the instrument, she became a member of the highly regarded Hungarian Radio and Television Children's Choir the same year. By the time she was ten years old, she had toured Greece, Italy, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Austria and Japan as piano soloist with the choir. At 14, Miss Wurtz joined the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and later became a student of the prominent pianist Zoltan Kocsis. She also worked extensively with colleague Andras Schiff.
In 1985, Klara Wiirtz won the coveted First Prize in the Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competition in Milan, Italy. She was praised not only for her superior technical command, but also for her very special sensibility towards the music, as well as for her charismatic quality which is intensely personal and individual. Milan's leading newspaper, Il Giornale, exclaimed: "From the first moments, Klara Würtz showed the exceptional qualities, both technically and musically, of a true artist. This young pianist strikes one immediately with a clarity of sound and interpretation, coupled with exquisite control".

For her prize-winning performance of Schubert's Sonata in B flat in the 1988 Dublin lnternational Piano Competition, the Sunday Tribune wrote of her "deeply moving performance of this difficult work, with silky-smooth touch and effortless melodic flow".
Klara Würtz has appeared all over Europe and in Japan. During the 1989/90 concert season she made her debut in the United States with three different tours performing over forty concerts in recital and with orchestra.