Rozsa: Viola Concerto / Hungarian Serenade
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MIKLOS ROZSA
Rozsa: Viola Concerto / Hungarian Serenade
Gilad Karni (viola) / Budapest Concert Orchestra / Mariusz Smolij
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 February 2009
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"I prefer (Gilad Karni's) account, both more intimate and earthier, authentically Hungarian and more sombre in colouring." BBC Music Magazine, February 2009 *****
"Rósza's… Viola Concerto composed in 1979 for the young Pinchas Zuckerman, is perhaps his finest work altogether, a brooding, passionate and eventually enlivening utterance that deserves to stand with the Walton and Bartók concertos and Bloch's Viola Suite. There was an excellent version from Paul Silverthorne and the NZSO on Koch International, but though Gilad Karni is rather close-miked here I prefer his account, both more intimate and earthier, authentically Hungarian and more sombre in colouring." BBC Music Magazine, February 2009 *****
The spirit of his native Hungary is seldom far away from the concert music of Miklós Rózsa, in spite of some 55 years spent in Hollywood and his long association with music for the cinema.
His Viola Concerto, the later of the two works presented here, was written in 1979 - at the request of Piatigorsky for the young Pinchas Zuckerman, who gave its first performance - and brings with it a certain astringency reminiscent of Bartók rather than Kodály.
Tracks:
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 37
(with Gilad Karni, viola)
Hungarian Serenade, Op. 25
