I think it was about ten years ago when I guided one of my foreign friends around Budapest: Heroes' Square, Váci utca, the Castle District. At the end of the day we went to a concert at the Music Academy. It was a magical evening. Luckily, the ÁHZ (Hungarian Concert Orchestra, predecessor of the National […]
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I think it was about ten years ago when I guided one of my foreign friends around Budapest: Heroes' Square, Váci utca, the Castle District. At the end of the day we went to a concert at the Music Academy. It was a magical evening. Luckily, the ÁHZ (Hungarian Concert Orchestra, predecessor of the National […]
Grand Prix CD – without a grand prix
I think it was about ten years ago when I guided one of my foreign friends around Budapest: Heroes' Square, Váci utca, the Castle District. At the end of the day we went to a concert at the Music Academy. It was a magical evening. Luckily, the ÁHZ (Hungarian Concert Orchestra, predecessor of the National […]
BÉLA BARTÓKConcerto for Orchestra; Dance Suite; Hungarian Peasant SongsHungarian National Philharmonic OrchestraZoltán Kocsis Hungaroton- HSACD 32187(SACD) Artistic Duality 10 / 10 Sound Duality Hungaroton's first SACD release is a knockout! Zoltán Kocsis, already acclaimed as perhaps the finest Bartók pianist alive, proves equally adept as a conductor. Indeed, there is no finer performance of the […]
I think it was about ten years ago when I guided one of my foreign friends around Budapest: Heroes' Square, Váci utca, the Castle District. At the end of the day we went to a concert at the Music Academy. It was a magical evening. Luckily, the ÁHZ (Hungarian Concert Orchestra, predecessor of the National […]
BÉLA BARTÓKConcerto for Orchestra; Dance Suite; Hungarian Peasant SongsHungarian National Philharmonic OrchestraZoltán Kocsis Hungaroton- HSACD 32187(SACD) Artistic Duality 10 / 10 Sound Duality Hungaroton's first SACD release is a knockout! Zoltán Kocsis, already acclaimed as perhaps the finest Bartók pianist alive, proves equally adept as a conductor. Indeed, there is no finer performance of the […]
Bartók music on five channels
The National Philharmonic Orchestra's first SACD (Super Audio CD) is being enthusiastically received in America as well One hundred and twenty three year's ago on this day in 1881, Béla Bartók was born. Paying homage to this towering figure of 20th century music history is the new, state of the art SACD format sound carrier […]
Kocsis’s Concerto
[…] and then Sir Georg Solti visited Buda with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and played the Bartók Concerto for orchestra. That great and very East-European composition every colour of which the musicians demonstrated from the Romanian folk music atmosphere to the memory and creed of the melody “You are fine and beautiful, Hungary” [which Bartók […]
Works by Bartók – National Philharmonic Orchestra
The National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zoltán Kocsis has made an extraordinary CD, which was no easy matter, because with the exception of the Hungarian Peasant Songs (1933), it comprises of regularly performed works. For me, Bartók's American compositions represent a decline in his oeuvre and the arguments of László Somfai in the superb accompanying […]
First SACD of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
BÉLA BARTÓKConcerto for Orchestra; Dance Suite; Hungarian Peasant SongsHungarian National Philharmonic OrchestraZoltán Kocsis Hungaroton- HSACD 32187(SACD) Artistic Duality 10 / 10 Sound Duality Hungaroton's first SACD release is a knockout! Zoltán Kocsis, already acclaimed as perhaps the finest Bartók pianist alive, proves equally adept as a conductor. Indeed, there is no finer performance of the […]