Ilona Prunyi

In the mid-'60s, Ilona Prunyi was a gifted piano student forced to delay the launch of her promising career owing to a lengthy illness. She is now regarded as among the most important Hungarian pianists of her generation, both in the realms of solo and chamber music. Her repertory is broad, taking in many standards by Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Bartók, and others. But more often than not, even the works she plays by well-known composers are likely to be their less-often encountered pieces. She also performs works by Godowsky and Korngold, and in the realm of chamber m...