Composer: Ferenc Farkas
Performer: Miklós Perényi
Orchestra: MÁV Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Péter Csaba
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0176
Release: 2014
Size: 340 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Divertimento for Orchestra
01. I. Allegro leggiero
02. II. Allegro giocoso
03. III. Tempo di minuetto
04. IV. Intermezzo
05. V. Allegro
Concertino all’ antica for Cello and String Orchestra
06. I. Pastorale
07. II. Aria con variazioni
08. III. Gigue
Lavotta Suite for Chamber Orchestra
09. I. Ungarisch
10. II. Menuet
11. III. Marsch nach Pannonien
12. IV. Ungarisch
13. V. Um Wirtshaus
Maschere (Version for Chamber Orchestra)
14. No. 1. Il Capitano
15. No. 2. Pantalone
16. No. 3. Colombina
17. No. 4. Povero Pulcinella
18. No. 5. Arlecchino
Trittico concertato for Cello and String Orchestra
19. I. Allegro moderato
20. II. Passacaglia con dedica
21. III. Allegro vivace
March Suite for Chamber Orchestra
22. I. Allegro moderato
23. II. Elegia, quasi lento
24. III. Allegro vivace
At home the Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) was one of the leading figures of his generation but his music has been overlooked further afield.
This first release in a series of recordings of his orchestral music highlights the characteristics that make his works so appealing: catchy tunes, transparent scoring, buoyant rhythms and a fondness for Baroque forms and folk-dances. Several of these works are heard here in their first recording – difficult to believe of such immediately attractive music.
Three more CDs of Farkas’ orchestral music are in preparation, as also an anthology of his writings on music (translated into English for the first time) from Toccata Press.
Miklós Perényi (b. 1948) is recognised as one of the foremost cellists of his generation. He has appeared in the world’s major musical centres, performing regularly around Europe, in Japan and China and in North and South America. The conductor Péter Csaba (b. 1952), a Romanian-born Hungarian, has been a major force in musical life also in France (where he has lived in 1983), Finland, Spain and Sweden and Finland, and has been Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra since September 2012.