Everyone has to pass at some point – that's not a question. But do we have to talk about it? And what can you say? And when? And how? - These are the questions that have preoccupied the minds of artists of all periods, including composers.

Even in his humorous pieces, Bartók included something testament-like, and there was always something serious about him, just like in Kocsis. The young Liszt was captured rather by the mysticism of death, more with interest than with fear. And young Richard Strauss painted with lofty Romanticism how the eternal soul leaves the passing body. On his deathbed, he said it felt exactly as he had written about it 60 years earlier. And what does today's young composer, Máté Balogh, say about this topic? And what do you think? We'll find out at the concert!