Weiner: Orchestral Works (Complete), Vol. 1 - Csongor and Tünde, Op. 10
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LEO WEINER
Weiner: Orchestral Works (Complete), Vol. 1 - Csongor and Tünde, Op. 10
Máté Szűcs (viola) / Jubilate Girls Choir, Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Valéria Csányi
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Release Date: Friday 29 January 2016
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For over half a century at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Leo Weiner taught successive generations of Hungary's leading musicians, and won his country's highest awards. As a composer his career was comet-like in its early brilliance and his music marked by an imaginative use of colour, masterful instrumentation and lyrical emotion. He regarded Csongor and Tünde as his magnum opus and its incidental music was later to take independent form as a ballet, heard here in its final 1959 version. The impressionistic Ballad, Op. 28 for viola and orchestra derives from an earlier work for clarinet and piano.
"Weiner's music is consistently appealing and tuneful, the colorful scoring using the womens' chorus especially. Being a ballet, there's naturally some break in continuity and sometimes pantomimic bits, but Weiner keeps this to a minimum. …Both recorded sound and playing are good. Maestra Csányi keeps a firm grip on proceedings." American Record Guide
"…a very delightful and skilfully crafted score. Weiner weaves motifs through the music which link characters effectively to their own themes. There are many attractive sections to the score-I particularly enjoyed the gently lilting The sorrowing Tünde which is followed by an exciting Witches' Sabbath. From there to the end of the score, there is a gentle pastoral ecstasy that is very touching. Great credit in the handling of the entire score must go to conductor Valéria Cśanyi. Cśanyi is a ballet specialist and brings a fluent grace to the playing which in the absence of any comparable version feels instinctively right. For all my usual admiration of Solti in direct comparison, Cśanyi has a subtler and more emotionally engaging grasp of the score as opposed to Solti's rather more superficial exciting dash." MusicWeb
Tracks:
Csongor and Tünde, ballet, Op. 10c
1959 version
Jubilate Girls Choir
Ballad for clarinet and orchestra, Op. 8
version for viola and orchestra
Máté Szűcs (viola)
