Weiner: Chamber Works

Featuring

Júlia Pusker
István Kassai
Ditta Rohmann
Csaba Klenyán
Leó Weiner

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Leó Weiner's approach to folk music differed from Kodály or Bartók; for him, folk music was a valuable body of music he could turn into a 'classic' style with 'delicate restraint'.

Composer Biography

Leó Weiner taught generations of musicians for half a century at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music, including famous conductors like Georg Solti, Antal Doráti, Ferenc Fricsay, and Fritz Reiner.

Recording & Production

This album features chamber works by Leó Weiner, all of which have also been recorded in their orchestrated forms as part of a Naxos series containing all of Weiner's orchestral works.

Instruments

Júlia Pusker, the violinist on this recording, plays the c. 1714 'Massart' Antonio Stradivari violin, on loan from the Pauk family through Beare's International Violin Society.

Composer Biography

Leó Weiner, a Hungarian composer and pedagogue, was a pupil of Hans von Koessler, who also taught Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, and Ernst von Dohnányi.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Leó Weiner was not a revolutionary innovator; he preserved his authentic language and style throughout his life, defying avant-garde movements, and maintained his Hungarian identity during WWII.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Leó Weiner's early works uniquely synthesized German and French Romanticism with Hungarian musical language, creating a new, engaging sound that was Hungarian to the core.