Kodaly - Orchestral Music
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95603
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 8th December 2017
Contents
Works
Dances of GalantaDances of Marosszek
Hary Janos Suite
Psalmus Hungaricus, op.13
Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock'
Artists
Hungarian State Symphony OrchestraBudapest Festival Orchestra
Conductors
Adam FischerIvan Fischer
Works
Dances of GalantaDances of Marosszek
Hary Janos Suite
Psalmus Hungaricus, op.13
Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock'
Artists
Hungarian State Symphony OrchestraBudapest Festival Orchestra
Conductors
Adam FischerIvan Fischer
About
‘The Hungarian dances presented to the world by Brahms strike the tone of urban Hungary in the 1860s, and are mainly by the composers of the time. The Dances of Marosszék are rooted in an earlier period: they conjure up an image of a Fairyland of the past.’ So wrote Zoltán Kodály in the preface to his through‐composed rondo-collection of dances, but his point stands for the other works on this compilation. He was a pioneer in bringing genuinely native inflections and timbres to the context of art‐music from Hungary.
Relating episodes from the life of a quintessentially Hungarian hero, Háry János now counts as the first national opera of note (even if surpassed internationally a few years later by Duke Bluebeard’s Castle), and its music travelled far more widely once Kodály made this orchestral suite inimitably coloured by the twang of the cimbalom. The Psalmus Hungaricus, too, powerfully conjures a sense of national pride, and a nationalism unburdened by bombast, in its progress from the tenor soloist’s laments towards a conclusion filled with hope and conviction all the more resonant for its composition in the middle of the feverish 1920s.
Classics Today noted of CD1 that ‘There’s no question that Ádám Fischer and the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra know how this music should go and characterize it well. Háry János, in particular, has a number of expressive personal touches in such sections as the Song and Intermezzo that bespeak a long and affectionate acquaintance.’ Fanfare praised the ‘idiomatic authority’ of the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s playing on CD2, marshalled with ‘shrewd insight’ by Iván Fischer: ‘colours, too ‐ whether in the moments of dark introspection or in the more peaceful passages ‐ have a rare glow.’
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