Composer: Ferenc Farkas
Performer: Dieter Lange, Daniel Dodds, Ulrike Schneider, Phoebus Quintet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0019
Release: 2006
Size: 321 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Sérénade
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante espressivo
03. III. Saltarello
4 Pezzi (Version for double bass and woodwind quintet)
04. I. Intrada
05. II. Scherzo
06. III. Petit poeme
07. IV. Rondo
Gyumolcskosar (Fruit basket)
08. No. 1, Gaspar [Punch]
09. No. 2, Ladika [the Magic Box]
10. No. 3, Marasztalas [Sunbeams]
11. No. 4, Falusi reggel [Morning in the Village]
12. No. 5, Mondoka [Violets]
13. No. 6, A kobeka [the Stone Frog]
14. No. 7, Altatodal [Lullaby]
15. No. 8, Szancsengo [Sleighbells]
16. No. 9, Bekakiraly [Frog King]
17. No. 10, A Tunder [the Little Elf]
18. No. 11, Paprika Jancsi szerenadja [Harlequin Serenade]
19. No. 12, Deli felhok [Midday Cloud]
Antiche danze ungheresi del 17. secolo (Old Hungarian Dances of the 17th Century)
20. I. Intrada. Allegro moderato
21. II. Lento: Moderato maestoso
22. III. Danza della scapole: Allegro quasi Scherzo
23. IV. Chorea: Moderato
24. V. Saltarello: Allegro
25. Rondo capriccio (Version for violin and woonwind quintet)Daniel Dodds09:03
Lavottiana
26. I. Indulas Pannonia fele (March to Pannonia)
27. II. Menuett (Minuet)
28. III. Lassu verbunk es figura (Slow Verbunkos and Figura)
29. IV. Nemet tancnota (German Dance-tune)
30. V. Rondo Vigadozas a korcsmaban (Rondo in the Inn)
Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) was one of the longest-lived members of the wave of Hungarian nationalist composers which began with the rise of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. A student of Ottorino Respighi in Rome, Farkas blended Respighi’s Latin melodiousness with the Magyar folk-heritage that Bartók and Kodály had made the central element of Hungarian music. His Old Hungarian Dances of the 17th Century have become a staple of the wind-quintet repertoire; the other five works on this disk display the same irrepressible joie de vivre.