Composer: Ferenc Farkas
Performer: Miklos Perenyi, Denes Varjon, Lucia Megyesi Schwartz, Kristof Barati, Lajos Rozman
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0345
Release: 2016
Size: 267 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Alla danza ungherese
All’antica
02. I. Pastorale
03. II. Aria con variazioni
04. III. Giga
05. Ballade
Sonatina Based on Hungarian Folk-songs
06. I. Allegro moderato
07. II. Andante espressivo
08. III. Allegro
Sonata for Violoncello
09. I. Allegro
10. II. Andante
11. III. Allegro molto
12. Arioso
4 Pezzi
13. I. Intrada
14. II. Scherzo
15. III. Petit poème
16. IV. Rondo
Fruit Basket
17. No. 1, Punch
18. No. 2, The Magic Box
19. No. 3, Sunbeams
20. No. 4, Morning in the Village
21. No. 5, Violets
22. No. 6, The Stone Frog
23. No. 7, Lullaby
24. No. 8, Sleighbells
25. No. 9, Frog King
26. No. 10, The Little Elf
27. No. 11, Harlequin Serenade
28. No. 12, Midday Cloud
Toccata Classics continues its exploration of the music of the Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) with this first of two releases of his chamber works for cello. As with previous albums in the series, the music here features the characteristics that made Farkas’s music so appealing: catchy tunes, transparent textures, buoyant rhythms and a fondness for Baroque forms and folk-dances. Some of these pieces speak a tougher language that shows Farkas to have been in touch with his times, but it is the infectious melodic appeal of most of the music here that carries the day.