Ferenc Farkas: Orchestral Music, Volume Five
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:
- Symphonic Overture (1952)*
- Elegia (1952)*
- Concertino for Piano and Orchestra: I Allegro
- Concertino for Piano and Orchestra: II Andante
- Concertino for Piano and Orchestra: III Allegro
- LISZT orch. FARKAS Funérailles (1974)*
- Planctus et consolationes: I Introduzione
- Planctus et consolationes: II Marcia funebre I
- Planctus et consolationes: III Consolatio I
- Planctus et consolationes: IV Marcia funebre II
- Planctus et consolationes: V Consolatio II
- Planctus et consolationes: VI Consolatio III
- Planctus et consolationes: VII Furioso
- Planctus et consolationes: VIII Consolatio IV
- Dances from the Matra: I Legenyes (‘Young Men’s Dance’)
- Dances from the Matra: II Leanytanc (‘Young Women’s Dance’)
- Dances from the Matra: III Ciganycsardas (‘Gipsy Dance’)
Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1947)*
Planctus et consolationes (1965)
Dances from the Mátra (1968)*
*First Recording in this Version
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