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Hungarian musician (1903-2001)
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- composer, violinist, music teacher
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01 - 08 Zoltan Szekely - String Quartet (1937) [28'02]09 - 12 Antonin Dvorak - String Quartet No.10 in E-flat major, op.51 B.92 [33'11]New Zealand String Quartet (Helene Pohl & Douglas Beilman- violins, Gillian Ansell- viola, Rolf Gjelsen- cello)Atoll ACD703 [recorded February 2002; CD issued 2004][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: The Opera House, Wellington, New Zealand.Recording engineer: Keith Warren; Producer: Wayne LairdTo the best of my knowledge, this is the only recording of Szekely's String Quartet. He was, of course, the leader of the Hungarian String Quartet for 35 years. The New Zealand String Quartet gave the world-premiere in Banff, Canada in December 1999.Download from Mega.
2021-03-17 10:55:17
Pure joy: Linus Roth and Jose Gallardo in virtuoso dance music for violin and piano from Bartok and Stravinsky to Piazzolla and Wienawski
[…] makes you want to get up and dance whilst the third is rather eerie with a sense of the exotic. Throughout Roth's singing tone is never far away and the suite concludes with a vibrantly vivid dance. One minor point, the booklet fails to point out that what we are hearing is a transcription, Bartok's original version was for piano and he then orchestrated it for small ensemble, so I presume we are hearing Zoltán Székely's version for violin and piano. No matter, these performances are wonderful, and what is surprising is that the two performers find a surprising amount of commonality between the Bartok and the Stravinsky that follows it. Library Hall, Ochsenhausen, Germany (Photo Steffen Dietze) Stravinsky wrote his divertimento The Fairy's Kiss to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Tchaikovsky's death. The work was written in 1928, and Stravinsky's engagement with Tchaikovsky had been […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-07-14 13:25:00
The best new classical albums: July 2019
[…] folkloristic music strived for nothing less than a "brotherhood of peoples", had already suffered under the rapprochements of the Hungarian right-wing government to the Nazi regime and was also directly affected by the political development at the latest with the annexation of Austria, where his publishing house Universal Edition was located. Torn between emigration and remaining in his homeland, Bartók initially escaped into work. He wrote his 2nd Violin Concerto for his befriended violinist Zoltán Székely. It represents a wonderful compromise between Bartók's modern imagination and the client's desire for a "classical" concert.Karl Amadeus Hartmann, a native of Munich, was most directly affected by the political darkening in Germany: "The standstill in creative activity was accompanied by the fear of what was to come, the unimaginable, the rule of the demon had come to pass, seemingly established for the duration". Hartmann remained in Germany and chose inner emigration. The events […]
2018-10-05 14:27:51
Hungarian Violinist & Composer Zoltán Székely Died On This Day in 2001 [ON-THIS-DAY]
Hungarian violinist and composer Zoltán Székely died on this day in 2001 – aged 97. He is remembered for having given the world premiere of Bartók’s 2nd Violin Concerto – and for his popular violin and piano transcription of Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances. ZOLTÁN Székely | BARTÓK | VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2 | JANOS […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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