Composer: Pál Hermann
Performer: Marko Komonko, Denys Lytvynenko, Theodore Kuchar, Myroslav Drahan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0585
Release: 2022
Size: 877 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Duo No. 1 for Violin & Cello
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Allegro giocoso
Suite for Violin
04. I. Introduction. Adagio rubato
05. II. Little Waltz
06. III. Scherzo. Presto
07. IV. Lento
08. V. Little Burlesque. Allegretto
Invenzioni a tre voci
09. I. Andante
10. II. Molto allegro
Duo No. 2 for Violin & Cello
11. I. Lento
12. II. Allegro giocoso
13. III. Andante
14. IV. Allegretto
15. String Trio
16. Piano Trio
Pál Hermann, born in Budapest in 1902, was not only one of the leading cellists of his generation; he was also an important composer, one of the major figures in Hungarian music in the generation after his teachers Bartók and Kodály. But since only two of his works were published before his early death – in 1944, at the hands of the Nazis – and many more of them were lost, he has not had the esteem that he deserves. The works on this second volume of his surviving compositions, mostly chamber works for strings, and several in their first recordings, have the wiry humour, sprung and spiky rhythms and Hungarian melos that mark him out as a worthy successor to Bartók – and hints at how much was lost with his murder.