Composer: Pál Hermann
Performer: Clive Greensmith, Kateryna Poteriaieva, Alina Shevchenko, Roman Marchenko, Sofia Soloviy
Orchestra: Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Theodore Kuchar
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0443
Release: 2021
Size: 1.17 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Cello Concerto
01. I. Allegro cantabile
02. II. Allegro – Lento – Andante “Disappearance” (After Hermann)
03. III. Allegro (After Hermann)
04. IV. Andante (After Hermann)
05. V. Allegro giocoso (After Hermann)
Kammersonate (Version for Violin & Strings)
06. I. Andante
07. II. Allegro con brio
08. III. Largo
09. IV. Allegretto grazioso
10. Előjáték
Suite for piano
11. I. Allegretto
12. II. Molto allegro
13. III. Lento
14. Ophélie (Orch. F. Conti)
Pál Hermann, born in Budapest in 1902, was not only one of the leading cellists of his generation: he was also an important composer, one of the major figures in Hungarian music in the generation after his teachers Bartók and Kodály. But since only two of his works were published before his early death, in 1944, at the hands of the Nazis, and many more of them were lost, he has not had the esteem that he deserves.
This series will present all his surviving compositions, most of them in first recordings. The major work on this first album, Hermann’s Cello Concerto of 1925 in a reconstruction by the Italian composer Fabio Conti (born 1967), sits somewhere between Bartók and Korngold and bids fair to become a staple of the cello repertoire.