IDAGIO | Cello Recital: Kosower, Mark - Bartok, B. / Dohnanyi, E. / Kodaly, Z. / Liszt, F. / (Hungarian Music for Cello and Piano) 747313057078

Featuring

Mark Kosower
Jee-Won Oh
Béla Bartók
Franz Liszt
David Popper
Zoltán Kodály

Ernö Dohnányi
Miklós Rózsa

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Recording & Production

The cello used in this recording was made by David Tecchler in 1701 and was generously loaned by Kenneth Warren and Son Ltd.

Composer Biography

David Popper, a great cellist and teacher born in Prague, published over 75 works mainly for cello and became a powerful influence in modern cello playing through his compositions and teaching at the Royal Conservatory in Budapest.

Compositional Technique

The First Rhapsody by Béla Bartók synthesizes Transylvanian dance music and a peasant performance style, using the slow-fast format typical of the Hungarian csárdás folk-dance.

Compositional Technique

Ernő Dohnányi's Ruralia Hungarica features distinctive ongoing tremolos that recall the sound world of the cimbalom, a Hungarian hammered dulcimer.

Composer Biography

Miklós Rózsa, primarily remembered as a film composer with three Oscars, was also a first-rate composer of traditional art-music, with his works performed by legendary conductors like Ernő Dohnányi and Leonard Bernstein.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Béla Bartók's First Rhapsody is an original folk-song arrangement intended to popularize his music as part of a lighter, more popular genre.

Composer Biography

Ferenc Liszt's Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth was inspired by an island in the Rhine, Nonnenwerth, where he visited with Marie d'Agoult and their children during a strained period in their relationship.