Composer: Ferenc Farkas
Performer: Gábor Farkas
Orchestra: MAV Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0286
Release: 2017
Size: 703 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Symphonic Overture
02. Elegia
Piano Concertino
03. I. Allegro
04. II. Andante
05. III. Allegro
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S. 173
06. Funérailles
Planctus et consolationes
07. I. Introduction
08. II. Marcia funebre I
09. III. Consolatio I
10. IV. Marcia funebre II
11. V. Consolatio II
12. VI. Consolatio III
13. VII. Furioso
14. VIII. Consolatio IV
Dances from the Mátra
15. I. Legenyes (Young Men’s Dance)
16. II. Leanytanc (Young Women’s Dance)
17. III. Ciganycsardas (Gipsy Dance)
The Toccata Classics survey of the music of the Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) continues with this fifth album of his orchestral music. Earlier releases have presented the lighter side of his music, with its quasi-Baroque textures and buoyant good humour, but this one shows Farkas working on a larger scale and in generally darker mood. Here he uses the full resources of the symphony orchestra in a number of powerful and dramatic works, including two movements from a symphony that he later withdrew and an orchestration of Liszts Funérailles. A lighter bonne bouche the Dances from the Mátra, rather like Kodálys Dances from Gálanta rounds things off.