Dezsö Ranki,laureato ai Premi Liszt e Kossuth, è nato a Budapest. Dopo aver studiato all'Accademia Franz Liszt di Budapest nella classe di Pal Kadosa, vince nel 1969 il Primo Premio del Concorso "Robert Schumann" che gli schiude le porte di una solida e  brillante carriera internazionale.

Ranki è da allora regolarmente  invitato dalle Orchestre più importanti : Filarmonici di Berlino e di Londra, Concertgebouw di Amsterdam, BBC Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, NHK di Tokyo, ecc.

Ha suonato sotto la direzione di Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Metha, Kurt Sanderling, Lorin Maazel, Vaclav Neumann, Kyrill Kondrascin, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Kurt Masur, Jeffrey Tate, Frans Bruggen...

Ha dato concerti in tutte le più importanti città europee (Londra, Parigi, Amsterdam, Berlino, Vienna,  Lucerna, Praga, Budapest) e compie regolarmmente tournées anche negli Stati Uniti, in Giappone.

In Italia Ranki è da molti anni  ospite di tutte le più importanti istituzioni concertistiche: a Milano-dove ha suonato anche alla Scala- a Roma, Torino, Genova, Palermo, Venezia, ecc.

E' stato invitato numerose volte al Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo , dove fra l'altro ha suonato sotto la direzione di Lorin Maazel sia con la Philharmonia Orchestra di Londra che con l'Orchestra della Radio di Monaco di Baviera .

Ranki incide per Teldec,  Quint Records e Denon : la sua registrazione degli Studi Opera 10 di Chopin ha vinto il Grand-Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros in Francia, e a  quella dei Microkosmos di Bartok  è stato attribuito il Premio della Critica Italiana.

Dezsö Ranki  ama suonare anche in formazioni cameristiche e da qualche anno suona  sia a quattro mani che a due pianoforti con  Edit Klukon .

Paris Theâtre des Champs-Elysées

Orchestre National de France, Daniele Gatti (direction)

23.10. 2008

Béla Bartok : Concerto pour piano n" 2, s2.95

Il trouve en Deszô Ranki, qui mène une carrière plus discrète que son ancien complice Zoltân Kocsis, un partenaire d'exception : si le jeu est percussif, il n'est jamais dur, avec une sorte de légèreté dans la sauvagerie virtuose ; le pianiste respecte les nuances, trouve des couleurs, joue ce Bartôk comme du Bach, avec une clarté de lignes que I'on remarque chez trop peu d'interprètes, faisant du compositeur hongrois un héritier du Cantor. Avant la transe du finale, le mouvement len confirme cette filiation , qui donne l'occasion d'admirer le travail déjà accompli par le chef avec les cordes de son orchestre : il en obtient des pianissimi diafanes, extatiques dont on se trouve heureusement surpris . En bis , Deszô Ranki joue 1e Csardas obstiné de Liszt non seulement avec une maestria éblouissante mais en gardan surtout un sens des rythmes, des couleurs et des nuances qui en font une vision fantastique beaucoup plus qu'une démonstration.

AMSTERDAM - CONCERTGEBOUW

Recital : Series Master Pianists – 10th January 2005

Fluid piano playing by Dezsö Ranki

, Ranki, very inspired, takes the public to adventure and possesses the gift to project a very personal light on the known and less known piano works. Ranki is equally a master architect but this pianist is still even stronger in creating fluid movements. Each note he plays creates the impulse for the one that follows, each phrase has the power of a rapidly flowing river, all the details constitute an organic part of the superior entity. Everything in Ranki’s expressive piano playing is about spirituality and liveliness.” … Wenneke Savenije

THE THELEGRAF Excellent recital by Ranki

……………..it was particularly in those works – Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonate and Bartòk’s Out of Doors – that Ranki excelled to such extent that maybe this replacement became an advantage. No Hungarian pianist passes by Bartòk’s work and on this ground Ranki has an excellent reputation. The suite Out of Doors is one of Bartòk’s masterpieces and Ranki’s interpretation came close to the ideal performance. Rough in the dissonant rhythmic parts – inspired by popular Hungarian and Romanian music – and extremely poetic in the impressionistic Night Music, not unfamiliar with Debussy’s music. Debussy’s small piece played by Ranki as a bis illustrated the manner in which this pianist places everything he plays in an appropriate interpretative context.”... Roeland Hazendonk.

TROW Ranki exceptional

...With his magnificent performance of Sunday night, Ranki has confirmed something which I had already sensed : the most discreet of the Hungarian trio is by far the most interesting from a musical point of view. His perfect timing, his flawless technique, his comprehension of form, the unforgettable beauty of his richly shaded sound is the basic components of a Master of his art. He recreates the works with a sincere and natural musicality, rich in taste and originality. His originality, far from being artificial is totally authentic because he does not draw the attention to himself but only to the works in question.” … Cristo Lelie

Ravel

Sonatine III  Animé