| Bartók:Out of Doors Sz. 81 Volume 1 I. With drums and pipes. Pesante II. Barcarolla. Andante III. Musettes. Moderato Erzsébet Tusa, piano Erzsébet Tusa was born in Budapest in 1928. After having studied under professor Pál Kadosa at the piano department of the Budapest Liszt Academy of Music, she graduated with distinction in 1948. In the same year, she won third prize in the Geneva International Piano Concours. Soon thereafter she established herself as a coveted pianist in Hungarys concert halls and gained renown in many foreign countries as well. Although her repertory ranges from Bach to contemporary composers, Mrs. Tusa has a special penchant for Liszt, Debussy and Bartók, whose works she has committed to gramophone records. As she has set herself the task of propagating the late, unknown works of Liszt, she frequently plays them at many of her recitals and has written a series of articles about them for a prestigious Hungarian musical journal. She made a widely acclaimed LP featuring some piano works of Debussy, (Images, Vols. 1-2., Estampes, LIsle Joyeuse), resulting in her being invited to serve as a jury member in the 1978 International Debussy Piano Concours staged at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Mrs. de Tignan, the stepdaughter and the last living relative of Debussy, sent Mrs. Tusa a letter which reads, among others: „I am glad that your country possesses such a fine ambassadress of my stepfathers compositions as you are. Mrs. Tusa is an outstanding performer of ... |
