Composer: Mátyás Gyorgy Seiber
Performer: Nina Karmon, Oliver Triendl
Orchestra: Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn
Conductor: Levente Török
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hänssler
Catalogue: HC21043
Release: 2021
Size: 1.33 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Sinfonietta for String Orchestra
01. I. Maestoso – Allegro moderato
02. II. Lento
03. III. Rondo. Allegro
Besardo Suite No. 2
04. I. Intrada
05. II. Guillemette – Chorea rustica
06. III. Gaillarda dolorata
07. IV. Branle commun
08. V. Madrigale
09. VI. Courante de guerre – Canaries
10. Fantasia concertante
Violin Sonata
11. I. Appassionato e rapsodico
12. II. Grazioso, danzata
13. III. Lento e rubato
14. Concert Piece
The friendship between Mátyás Seiber and Antal Doráti dates back to their youth, when they were the two youngest students in Zoltán Kodály’s composition class in Budapest in the 1920s. Doráti was one year younger than Seiber and held him in high esteem from the beginning. In the memoirs, Így láttuk Kodályt [‘Thus We Saw Kodály’], he writes the following: “The two ‘best’ were Mátyás Seiber and Lajos Bárdos. Matyi [Mátyás] wrote a great string quartet at the time, which has survived. One of our tasks was to write variations on a Handel theme. In response to one of Seiber’s slow-tempo variations, Mr Kodály said: ‘That’s nice’. In our eyes – at least in my eyes – that was the canonization of Matyi”