Ferenc Farkas: Orchestral Music, Volume Five

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Catalogue No: TOCC0286
EAN/UPC: 5060113442864
Release Date: 2017-10-01
Composer: Ferenc Farkas
Artists: Gábor Farkas, Gábor Takács-Nagy, MÁV Symphony Orchestra

Previous releases in the Toccata Classics survey of the music of the Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) have generally presented its lighter side, with quasi-Baroque textures and buoyant good humour. This album shows Farkas working on a larger scale and in generally darker mood, using the full resources of the symphony orchestra in a number of powerful and dramatic works, including two movements from a symphony that he later withdrew – but with a lighter bonne bouche to rounds things off.

Gábor Farkas, piano (Tracks 3 – 5)
MÁV Symphony Orchestra
Gábor Takács-Nagy, conductor

Listen To This Recording:

  1. Symphonic Overture (1952)*
  2. Elegia (1952)*
  3. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1947)*

  4. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra: I Allegro
  5. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra: II Andante
  6. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra: III Allegro
  7. LISZT orch. FARKAS Funérailles (1974)*
  8. Planctus et consolationes (1965)

  9. Planctus et consolationes: I Introduzione
  10. Planctus et consolationes: II Marcia funebre I
  11. Planctus et consolationes: III Consolatio I
  12. Planctus et consolationes: IV Marcia funebre II
  13. Planctus et consolationes: V Consolatio II
  14. Planctus et consolationes: VI Consolatio III
  15. Planctus et consolationes: VII Furioso
  16. Planctus et consolationes: VIII Consolatio IV
  17. Dances from the Mátra (1968)*

  18. Dances from the Matra: I Legenyes (‘Young Men’s Dance’)
  19. Dances from the Matra: II Leanytanc (‘Young Women’s Dance’)
  20. Dances from the Matra: III Ciganycsardas (‘Gipsy Dance’)

*First Recording in this Version

1 review for Ferenc Farkas: Orchestral Music, Volume Five

  1. :

    ‘Come to think of it, there’s a panoramic energy to the overture that reminds me of Franz Waxman at his most vivid and vital. Even the elegy has its fiery flourishes. Thrilling stuff!

    The sound here is big and beefy, but then that fits well with the widescreen feel of these impassioned openers. The recording is warm and fairly detailed […] Ditto this band and conductor, who dispatch these pieces with commendable thrust and enthusiasm. […]

    Farkas’s colouristic skills are really quite striking.’

    —Dan Morgan, MusicWeb International

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