Composer: Sándor Veress
Performer: Basel String Quartet, Susanne Mathé, Isabelle Ladewig, Stella Mahrenholz, Stéphanie Meyer
Orchestra: Hungarian Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Jan Schultsz
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0062
Release: 2013
Size: 296 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
String Quartet No. 1
01. I. Rubato, quasi recitativo
02. II. Andante
03. III. Vivo
String Quartet No. 2
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Andante
06. III. Presto
Concerto For String Quartet And Orchestra
07. I. Le Cadenze
08. II. Gli Ornamenti
09. III. Le Fanfare
Sándor Veress (1907–99) was born in Kolozsvár, then in Hungary (it is now Cluj-Napoca in Romania), but spent the last half-century of his life in Switzerland as an exile from Communism. In the 1930s he worked as Bartók’s research assistant in his work on Hungarian folksong, with results audible in the two early string quartets. By the time of the Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra three decades later, Veress had developed a lean and muscular style. It incorporates elements of modernism but retaining a powerful sense of onward momentum, expressed in an original voice which combines head and heart in an exhilarating blend of freewheeling invention, fantasy and wit. This is the first recording of the Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra.