play pause radio-play skip-back skip-forward playing search copy check embed close plus caret-down caret-left caret-right caret-up chevron-down chevron-left chevron-right chevron-up arrow-left arrow-right open-in-new-tab filter menu more-horizontal more-vertical share share-android select star star-block volume-block volume-mute-block volume-mute volume lock settings recording composition devices laptop speaker
Log inCreate account

Zador: Aria and Allegro - 5 Contrasts - Children's Symphony

11/1/2012, 13 Tracks, 1:06:03

Featuring

  • Mariusz Smolij
  • MÁV Szimfonikus Zenekar
  • Eugene Zádór

Did you know?

1/7

Performer Biography

The Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, founded in 1945 by the Hungarian State Railways, is one of Hungary's best professional orchestras and performed for Pope John Paul II in 1988.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Eugene Zádor composed numerous works for 'underprivileged' instruments, including concertos for trombone, cimbalom, double bass, and accordion.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Eugene Zádor composed in a cosmopolitan but conservative twentieth-century idiom, characterized by strong tonality, high counterpoint, and elaborate yet tightly knit formal structures.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Eugene Zádor aimed for effective communication of emotion in his music, emphasizing melodic expression and evocative orchestral color.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Eugene Zádor, the composer, believed that good music must appeal to the heart, not just the intellect, and only composed when inspired.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Eugene Zádor earned his living in Hollywood as an orchestrator, primarily for Miklós Rózsa, who made keeping Zádor a condition of his contract with M-G-M.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Mariusz Smolij, the conductor, has led over a hundred orchestras on four continents and is a founding member of the Penderecki String Quartet.

Source: Booklet

You might also enjoy...

"Méditation" from Thaïs
Giu' la Testa (Colonna Sonora Originale)
Ungerer: Oliver Twist Now – Symphonic Pictures
La storia vera della signora delle Camelie (Colonna sonora originale)
Young: Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror
Merry-Go-Round of Life
Another Seven Symphonies: Rigby's Waltz
Brahms · Transcriptions
Black Venus - The Great Globe
Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra - Janáček: Sinfonietta
Liebermann: Philharmonisches Konzert / Hindemith: Concerto für Jazzband and Sinfonieorchester
Flor Alpaerts: Orchestral Works (Flemish Connection VIII)
Orchestral Music (Contemporary) - Kramer, K. / Yip, S. / Barabba, J. / Crouch, S. (Mementos - Modern Orchestral Works)
©℗ 2012 Naxos