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Bartok / Kodaly / Ligeti - Hungarian Songs | Warner 2564695183

Bartok / Kodaly / Ligeti - Hungarian Songs

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Cat No: 2564695183

Barcode: 0825646951833

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 25th August 2008

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Contents

Works

Bartok
Hungarian Folksongs Vol.2 (1906-07)

Bartok
Eight Hungarian Folksongs (1907-1917)

Kodaly
Hungarian Folk Music: The Ballad Of Annie Miller / From distant mountains

Ligeti
Three Songs on Poems by Sandor Weores

Ligeti
Five Songs on Poems by Janos Arany

Artists

Andrea Rost (soprano)
Izabella Simon (piano)

Works

Bartok
Hungarian Folksongs Vol.2 (1906-07)

Bartok
Eight Hungarian Folksongs (1907-1917)

Kodaly
Hungarian Folk Music: The Ballad Of Annie Miller / From distant mountains

Ligeti
Three Songs on Poems by Sandor Weores

Ligeti
Five Songs on Poems by Janos Arany

Artists

Andrea Rost (soprano)
Izabella Simon (piano)

About

I’ve got a new plan now: to put together the most beautiful Hungarian folksongs and raise them to the level of arts songs by providing each with the best possible piano accompaniment.” - Béla Bartók

The ten volumes of Zoltán Kodály’s Magyar Nepzene (Hungarian Folk Music) were prepared between 1924 and 1932. Altogether they contain 62 ballads and folk songs. On this recording we hear the most famous ballads and folk songs (Annie Miller, From Distant Mountains) from the first volume.

The two song cycles by György Ligeti are genuine curiosities. They were not performed for decades, and the scores were not available. Both stem from Ligeti’s years in Budapest. ”My musical ideal was a ‘Hungarian modernity’, my model was Bartók. The Three Weöres Songs mark the beginning of a compositional development.” (György Ligeti). The music of the Arany songs is more traditional - although none of them contains original folklore melody, we can feel throughout that Ligeti has studied and collected peasant songs.

Recorded at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest, Great Hall, 2007.

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