Leos Janácek (1854-1928)
Sur un sentier recouvert
Dans les brumes

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prélude et fugue n° 4 en do dièse mineur, BWV 849

Barnabás Dukay (1950-)
The Sun is but a morning star

Juraj Hatrík (1941-)
Toccata

Carl Vine (1954-)
Cinq Bagatelles

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade n° 4 en fa mineur, op. 52

Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
Sonate pour piano

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Sonatine, Sz 55

Janez Maticic (1926-)
Trois pièces pour piano

Luboš Fišer (1935-1999)
Sonate n° 5

Pavel Sivic (1908-1995)
Hommage à Arnold Schoenberg

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
"Le baiser de l'Enfant Jésus", en fa dièse majeur

Lukasz Klansky, pianoforte
Peter Nagel, pianoforte
Fülöp Ranki, pianoforte
Tim Jancar, pianoforte
Julia Kociuban, pianoforte

The piano festival piano forte: the next generation, a Bank Austria initiative features a selection of five young pianists from Austria and the four neighboring countries to the east, namely the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia. The up-and-coming musicians Julia Kociuban, Peter Nagel, Tim Jancar, Lukas Klansky und Fülöp Ranki were granted the possibility to present their talents to an enthusiastic audience in the course of an one-week concert series at the Bank Austria Salon in Vienna’s Old City Hall. These concerts were recorded, with the highlights being released on this double-CD. Works presented here are by composers such as L. Janacek, J. S. Bach, F. Chopin, W. Lutoslawski, B. Bartok and O. Messiaen, as well as by contemporaries from the native countries of the nominated like Juraj Hatrik, Carl Vine, Janez Maticic, Barnabas Dukay or Lubos Fiser.