Kodály: Choir works Kodály: Cello solo sonata, op. 8 Kodály: The Dances of Galánta Kodály: Hary Janos Suite With: Cantemus Choir Nyíregyháza (chorus master: Dénes Szabó ), Balázs Kántor - cello, Budapest Philharmonic Society Orchestra Conducted by: György Győriványi Ráth Featuring: Ádám Horváth – baritone Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galánta Háry János Suite Approaching Winter “If I’m asked in which works the Hungarian spirit is most perfectly embodied, then I have to reply that it ...is in those of Kodály. These works are a confession of the Hungarian soul”, said Béla Bartók, whose colleague Zoltán Kodály is marked by two anniversaries this year: the 125th of his birth and the 40th of his death. Kodály’s musical play Háry János was premiered by the Hungarian State Opera House in 1926. Háry represents the peasant story teller who presents the people’s dreams and longings in fairy story adventures about an imaginary world. The brave Háry is a liar but not in the same way as Baron Münchhausen. It is Háry’s charming leg pulling that is the real story, an imagination that knows no limits. He lies in the way a folksong dresses the local landscape with a thousand beauties; like a child who wants to seize the deepest content of reality by exaggerating and blowing up his own experiences. Háry János loses touch with reality like every good poet. He places ideals before his own folk, showing how we can be! Kodály’s childhood memories are connected to Galánta in upper Hungary. When he was asked to compose a piece of music for a concert marking the eightieth birthday of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra in 1933, he chose the melodies of the Gypsy musicians from Galánta at the turn of the last century as thematic material. This is true verbunk music which Kodály, with his profound musical learning, is able to raise to the level of the finest symphonic creation. The poem Approaching Winter is one of the most important verses of Hungarian lyric poetry, and the work of Dániel Berzsenyi. Kodály selected this poem and Endre Ady’s To cry, to cry, to cry to set as his Two Songs for Baritone and Orchestra.
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