What connects Béla Bartók and Richard Strauss? For example, both of them were musical cornerstones in the first half of the 20th century; two composers tried to affect their audience with a heroic sense of obligation.

While Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 1 addresses mainly his fellow musicians, his Piano Concerto No.3 talks mainly to his wife, and his No. 2 primarily to the audience. The latter’s spectacularity, accessibility and vividness put it invariably into the limelight. Although Richard Strauss never mentioned that he himself was the protagonist of his composition A Hero’s Life, we don’t need to strain our imagination to discover the characters of his life in it. With Zoltán Fejérvári's solo and under Martin Rajna's baton, Bartók and Strauss' soundfalls will certainly make a profound impression on the audience and may evoke in us the sensation that we are all heroes.