Name Dezso Ranki Awards Kossuth Prize | Role Pianist | |
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Education Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest Albums Piano Quartets nos. 1 & 2 Movies Mozart: Great Piano Concertos: Vol. 4 Similar People Zoltan Kocsis, Janos Ferencsik, Bela Bartok, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ||
Mozart, Concierto para piano Nº 17 en Sol mayor K453. Dezső Ránki, piano
Dezso Ranki (born 8 September 1951) is an Hungarian virtuoso concert pianist.
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Born in Budapest, he began taking piano lessons at the Budapest Academy of Music at the age of eight. When he was thirteen, he enrolled at the Budapest Conservatory and became a pupil of Klara Mathe. Subsequently he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, with his mentors Pal Kadosa and Ferenc Rados. Among his classmates where renowned pianists Andras Schiff and Zoltan Kocsis. From the time Ranki won first prize at the International Schumann Competition in Zwickau, he has had an international career performing in Europe, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, the USA and Japan. He has played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Orchestre National de France under such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Sandor Vegh, Lorin Maazel, and Zubin Mehta. He was awarded twice the Kossuth Prize, the highest cultural award in Hungary.
From 1985, Ranki frequently performs duet recitals with his wife Edit Klukon. Together they have a son, Fulop Ranki, who is also a skilled pianist.
Awards
Songs
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion: II Lento - ma non troppo
Mozart : Piano Quartet No1 in G minor K478 : III Rondo - Allegro moderato
Mozart : Piano Quartet No1 in G minor K478 : I Allegro
Sonata for Keyboard 4 Hands in C Major - K 19d: II Menuetto
Sonata for Piano 4 Hands in B-Flat Major - K 358: III Molto presto
Stravinsky : 3 Movements from Petrushka : III The Shove-tide Fair - Con moto - Allegretto
Stravinsky : Serenade in A : III Rondoletto
Robert Schumann: Einsame Blumen
Piano Sonata No 13 in B-Flat Major - K 333: I Allegro
Piano Concerto No 15 in B-Flat Major - K 450: III Allegro
Roman nepi tancok - BB 68: No 2 Braul
Winterreise - Op 89 - D 911: No 8 Der Atlas
Waldszenen - Op 82: No 9 Abschied
Piano Sonata No 15 in D Major - Op 28 - "Pastoral": IV Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
3 Hungarian Folk Tunes - BB 80b: No 3 Feher liliomszal : Maestoso
Stravinsky : Sonata for Piano : III
Concerto in F major for 3 pianos and orchestra KV 242: I Allegro
Bartok : Gyermekeknek [For Children] Sz42 : Volume 3 XXII Revelry - "The lads caught a goat"
Sonata No 59 in E-Flat Major - Hob XVI:49: II Adagio cantabile
Stravinsky : Sonata for Piano : II Adagietto
Sonatina - BB 69: II Medvetanc : Moderato
6 Variations in C Major - HobXVII:5: Variation 6
6 Variations in C Major - HobXVII:5: Variation 3
3 Burlesques - Op 8c - BB 55: No 2 Kicsit azottan
3 Burlesques - Op 8c - BB 55: No 1 Perpatvar
Gaspard de la nuit: I Ondine
6 Variations in C Major - HobXVII:5: Variation 5
Piano Sonata No 4 in E-Flat Major - K 282: I Adagio
Piano Sonata No 5 in G Major - K 283: II Andante
Piano Sonata No 6 in D Major - K 284: III Theme and variations
24 Preludes - Op 28: Prelude No 17 in A-Flat Major - Op 28 - No 17
4 Caprichos - Op 57: No 3 Lento