The death has been communicated of Ferenc Rados, Hungarian pianist and professor at the Liszt Academy.
Zoltan Kocsis once called him ‘the most enigmatic individual of Hungarian music life’ adding: ‘How is it possible that the former student never felt mocked or humiliated, that the former chamber partner somehow can’t remember anything that wasn’t related to music and only music?’
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