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Harsanyi - Complete Piano Works Vol.2 | Grand Piano GP807

Harsanyi - Complete Piano Works Vol.2

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Label: Grand Piano

Cat No: GP807

Barcode: 0747313980727

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 8th May 2020

Contents

About

The Hungarian-born composer Tibor Harsányi is now recognised as an important personality in ‘L’École de Paris’. He had a lifelong interest in modern dance, represented here by the Petite Suite and Trois Pičces de danse, and he also embraced jazz, which was part of the Parisian atmosphere of the inter-war period, and other influences, while keeping the Central European rhythms and tonalities of his Hungarian origins. The Trois Pičces lyriques is a rare example of Harsányi expressing torment during the turbulent years of the Second World War.

Giorgio Koukl is a pianist/harpsichordist and composer. He studied at both the Conservatories of Zürich and Milan, where he took part in the masterclasses of Nikita Magaloff, Jacques Février, and Stanislaus Neuhaus, and with Rudolf Firkušný, friend and advocate of Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů. It was through Firkušný that Koukl first encountered Martinů‘s music, and is now considered one of the world’s leading interpreters of Martinů’s piano music. As a logical continuation of this work, Koukl has recorded the complete solo piano works of Paul Le Flem, Alexander Tcherepnin, Arthur Lourié, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Witold Lutosławski, and more recently, Alexandre Tansman and Tibor Harsányi.

‘…Koukl has done it again, rediscovered a neglected composer of great interest and, through his enthusiastic playing, made him interesting and vital.’ – The Art Music Lounge on Vol.1 (GP806)

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