Project Hungarica 2
PERFORMERS:
Szymon Krzeszowiec – violin [1–47, 50]
Marcin Markowicz – violin [1–46, 50]
Filip Krzeszowiec – cello [47–50]
Adam Krzeszowiec – cello [50]
Anna Krzeszowiec – celesta [50]
RELEASE DATE: 9/2024
CATALOGUE NO. ACD 336
GENRE: chamber music
Hungarian modern music may be represented in the form of a vast and clearly distinguishable mountain range, whose three main summits bear the names of Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, and György Kurtág. These three took music in their country to previously unknown heights. The characteristic Hungarian musical idiom had in fact already found its way into the Viennese classics’ style, reaching the peak of its popularity in the works of Franz (Ferenc) Liszt and Johannes Brahms. It is, however, only in the modern sound language that composers have succeeded in assimilating Hungarian music without stylistic ‘censorship’, in bringing out its unruly, archaic modalities and sharp rhythms (whose Polish counterparts can only be found in the music of the Tatra highlanders, inhabiting the former borderland between Poland and Hungary). Hungarian folklore also derived its wealth from the sheer vastness of the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. As in the case of Poland, many of whose leading artists were born in the so-called Eastern Borderlands, all the three classics of 20th- century Hungarian music came from the territories which the 1920 Treaty of Trianon gave to Romania.
Marcin Trzęsiok (transl. by Tomasz Zymer)
Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
44 Duets for two violins, Sz. 98, BB 104 (1931) [46:21]
Book I
[1] Teasing Song (Párosító) 0:46
[2] Maypole Dance (Kalamajkó) 0:39
[3] Menuetto 0:44
[4] Midsummer Night Song (Szentivánéji) 0:41
[5] Slovakian Song I (Tót nóta I) 0:51
[6] Hungarian Song I (Magyar nóta I) 0:46
[7] Walachian Song (Oláh nóta) 0:56
[8] Slovakian Song II (Tót nóta II) 1:03
[9] Play Song (Játék) 0:32
[10] Ruthenian Song (Rutén nóta) 1:02
[11] Cradle Song (Gyermekrengetéskor) 1:13
[12] Hay-Harvesting Song (Szénagyűjtéskor) 1:02
[13] Wedding Song (Lakodalmas) 1:30
[14] Cushion Dance (Párnás tánc) 0:36
Book II
[15] Soldier’s Song (Katonanóta) 0:52
[16] Burlesque (Burleszk) 1:00
[17] Marching Song I (Menetelő nóta I) 0:47
[18] Marching Song II (Menetelő nóta II) 0:47
[19] A Fairy Tale (Mese) 1:10
[20] A Rhythm Song (Dal) 1:33
[21] New Year’s Greeting I (Ujévköszöntő I) 1:55
[22] Mosquito Dance (Szunyogtánc) 0:34
[23] Bride’s Farewell (Menyasszonybúcsúztató) 1:14
[24] Comic Song (Tréfás nóta) 0:39
[25] Hungarian Song II (Magyar nóta II) 1:01
Book III
[26] Teasing Song („Ugyan, édes komámasszony…”) 0:26
[27] Limping Dance (Sánta-tánc) 0:27
[28] Sorrow (Bánkódás) 2:24
[29] New Year’s Greeting II (Ujévköszöntő II) 0:49
[30] New Year’s Greeting III (Ujévköszöntő III) 0:52
[31] New Year’s Greeting IV (Ujévköszöntő IV) 0:45
[32] Dance from Máramaros (Máramarosi tánc) 0:37
[33] Harvest Song (Aratáskor) 1:37
[34] Enumerating Song (Számláló nóta) 0:52
[35] Ruthenian Kolomeika (Rutén kolomejka) 0:54
[36] Bagpipes & Variant (Szól a duda & Változat) 2:03
Book IV
[37] Prelude and Canon (Preludium és kánon) 2:46
[38] Romanian Whirling Dance (Forgatós) 0:40
[39] Serbian Dance (Szerb tánc) 0:45
[40] Walachian Dance (Oláh tánc) 0:57
[41] Scherzo 0:48
[42] Arabian Song (Arab dal) 1:19
[43] Pizzicato 1:05
[44] Transylvanian Dance („Erdélyi” tánc) 2:02
György Ligeti (1923–2006)
Ballad and Dance for two violins (1950) [2:49]
[45] Ballad: Andante 1:32
[46] Dance: Allegro vivace 1:16
[47] Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg 1:51
for violin and cello (1982)
Sonata for Solo Cello (1948–53) [8:51]
[48] Dialogo: Adagio, rubato, cantabile 4:47
[49] Capriccio: Presto con slancio 4:03
György Kurtág (b. 1926)
[50] Ligatura. Message to Frances-Marie 3:46
(The answered unanswered question), Op. 31/b
version for two violins, two cellos and celesta (1989)
total time: 63‘52
