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.
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Ready for 80 minutes of pure musical joy?
Ready for 80 minutes of fine music?If you’re in for a treat and like to delve into a disc with fine tunes, problem-free music and 80 happy smiles in 80 minutes than this is for you. (I palyed this disc after Netherlands – Argentina FIFA 2014) and my instant headache changed into a sunny condition.) Farkas’ music is really very fine, reminds me of Milhaud without the dissonance or Strawinsky in his neo-classical period without the ‘strange’ rhythmic twists. Add to this an exemplary documentation – you can feel the producer of this record label loves to make records! Farkas is a happy tunesmith who thinks in small musical works (all works on this disch last for around 10-15 minutes) so don’t think you’ll get highly dramatic experessionistic things to hear. No, the strength of this kind of composing is in tiny little things: the way he handles the oboe, the way the cello can excel, the happiness of the string writing etc. Examplary performances. There’ll be a volume 2 and I hope Toccata will record Farkas’ ballet scores!
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