Ferenc Farkas: Chamber Music, Volume Three – Works with Flute

This tenth release in the Toccata Classics exploration of the music of Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) puts his chamber music with flute in the spotlight. As with previous albums in this series, the music here highlights the characteristics that make Farkas’ music so appealing: catchy tunes, transparent textures, buoyant rhythms, a fondness for Baroque forms and a taste for the folk-music of his native Hungary that marks him out as a true successor to Bartók and Kodály. Some of these pieces speak a tougher language that shows Farkas to have been in touch with his times, but it is the infectious melodic appeal of most of the music here that carries the day.

András Adorján, flute
Tünde Szabóki,soprano (Tracks 9–10, 15–17, 25–27)
Lajos Rozman, clarinet (Tracks 11 – 13)
Andrea Horváth, bassoon (Tracks 11–13, 33–35)
Gergely Kovács, horn (Tracks 28 – 30)
Gyula Stuller, violin (Tracks 4 – 8, 19 – 24)
Márta Abrahám, violin (Tracks 4 – 8)
Péter Bársony, viola (Tracks 15–17, 25–30)
Miklós Perényi, cello (Tracks 15 – 17, 19 – 24)
András Csáki, guitar (Tracks 25 – 27, 31 – 32)
Balázs Szokolay, piano (Tracks 1 – 3, 33 – 35)

Listen To This Recording:

    Sonatina for flute and piano (1965)

  1. Sonatina for flute and piano, I Allegro non troppo
  2. Sonatina for flute and piano, II Andante moderato
  3. Sonatina for flute and piano, III Allegro
  4. Serenade for flute and two violins (1940, rev. 1968)

  5. Serenade for flute and two violins, I Allegro moderato
  6. Serenade for flute and two violins, II Marcietta
  7. Serenade for flute and two violins, III Scherzino
  8. Serenade for flute and two violins, IV Intermezzo
  9. Serenade for flute and two violins, V Rondo
  10. Tibicinium: Two songs with flute accompaniment to poems by A. Keleti (1960)

  11. Tibicinium: Two songs with flute accompaniment to poems by A. Keleti, No. 1 Fragment
  12. Tibicinium: Two songs with flute accompaniment to poems by A. Keleti,No. 2 Sommerfest
  13. Tre bagatelle for flute, clarinet and bassoon (1992)

  14. Tre bagatelle for flute, clarinet and bassoon, No. 1 Allegretto
  15. Tre bagatelle for flute, clarinet and bassoon, No. 2 Andante
  16. Tre bagatelle for flute, clarinet and bassoon, No. 3 Allegro
  17. 33 Battute per Angelica for flute (1995)

  18. 33 Battute per Angelica for solo flute
  19. Die Lieder des Wanderers for voice, flute, viola and violoncello (1956)

  20. Die Lieder des Wanderers for voice, flute, viola and violoncello, I Utra kelni, messzi menni / Rastlos wandern
  21. Die Lieder des Wanderers for voice, flute, viola and violoncello, II Tavaszi dal, vandordal / Fruhlingswind
  22. Die Lieder des Wanderers for voice, flute, viola and violoncello, III A kalandor / Der Abenteurer
  23. Meditazione for alto flute and piano (1990)

  24. Meditazione for flute in G and piano
  25. Six Hungarian Folksongs for flute, violin and violoncello (1947)

  26. Six Hungarian Folksongs for recorder, violin and violoncello, No. 1 Zendulj fel Szent Janos
  27. Six Hungarian Folksongs for recorder, violin and violoncello, No. 2 Arokparti kokeny
  28. Six Hungarian Folksongs for recorder, violin and violoncello, No. 3 Kerek utca
  29. Six Hungarian Folksongs for recorder, violin and violoncello, No. 4 Janoshidi vasarteren
  30. Six Hungarian Folksongs for recorder, violin and violoncello, No. 5 Fekete fod
  31. Six Hungarian Folksongs for recorder, violin and violoncello, No. 6 Bogyiszlai kertek alja vegen
  32. Rosarium for voice, flute, violoncello and guitar (1933–76, instr. 1982)

  33. Rosarium for voice, flute, violoncello and guitar, I Salve Regina
  34. Rosarium for voice, flute, violoncello and guitar, II Ave Maria
  35. Rosarium for voice, flute, violoncello and guitar, III Laudes Mariae Virginis
  36. Three Dance Paraphrases for flute, viola and horn (1972)

  37. Three Dance Paraphrases for flute, viola and horn, No. 1 Allegretto
  38. Three Dance Paraphrases for flute, viola and horn, No. 2 Moderato
  39. Three Dance Paraphrases for flute, viola and horn, No. 3 Allegro
  40. Egloga – Burattinata for flute and guitar (1976–77)*

  41. Egloga Burattinata for flute or violin and guitar, I Egloga
  42. Egloga Burattinata for flute or violin and guitar, II Burattinata
  43. Trigón for flute, bassoon and piano (1988)

  44. Trigon for flute, bassoon and piano, I Moderato molto
  45. Trigon for flute, bassoon and piano, II Andante moderato
  46. Trigon for flute, bassoon and piano, III

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