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Zádor: Piano Quintet, Accordion Concerto, Suite for Brass Instruments & Hungarian Fantasy

8/23/2024, 13 Tracks, 1:13:42

Featuring

  • Klaudiusz Baran
  • Mariusz Smolij
  • Richárd Rózsa
  • Dávid Pintér
  • Anna Górecka
  • MÁV Szimfonikus Zenekar
  • Eugene Zádór

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Compositional Technique

Zádor's Accordion Concerto is part of a series of works he composed for 'underprivileged' instruments, including trombone, cymbalom, and double bass.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Klaudiusz Baran, the accordionist, was the first accordionist to receive the Fryderyk Award (a Polish music award) in 2003 for his album 'Piazzolla - Tango'.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

The Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, one of Hungary's leading orchestras, was founded in 1945 after the Second World War by the president of the Hungarian State Railway.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Eugene Zádor's primary goal as a composer was to communicate with listeners, and he focused on music that celebrated the human spirit.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Anthony Galla-Rini, for whom Zádor's Accordion Concerto was written, made his vaudeville debut at age four in 1908 and played for nearly a century.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Mariusz Smolij, the conductor on this album, has led over 140 orchestras on four continents and is currently music director of the Acadiana Symphony and Riverside Symphonia.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Eugene Zádor, the composer, worked as the exclusive orchestrator for Miklós Rózsa's film scores from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s.

Source: Booklet

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