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Balazs Szokolay
Romantic Piano Music 6
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Fantasia (Capriccio) for piano in C major, H. 17/4
2. Erotik, lyric piece for piano, Op. 43/5
3. Album für die Jugend No. 23 ('Reiterstücke') for piano in D minor, Op. 68/23
4. Impromptu for piano in A flat major, D. 899/4 (Op. 90/4)
5. Cavatina for violin & piano, Op. 85/3
6. Song Without Words for piano No. 34 in C major ('Spinnerlied'), Op. 67/4
7. Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow), for violin & piano
8. Prelude for piano No.1 in C sharp minor ('The Bells of Moscow'), Op. 3/2
9. Barcarolle for piano in F sharp major, Op. 60, CT. 6
10. Three Apples and a Half, for piano (For Children Vol. 2/25), Sz. 42/2/25, BB 53/25
11. Go Round, Sweetheart, Go Round, for piano (For Children Vol. 2/26), Sz. 42/2/26, BB 53/26
12. Children's Game: 'Hey, görbénye, görbénye', for piano (For Children Vol. 1/8), Sz. 42/1/8, BB 53/8

CD Details

All Artists: Balazs Szokolay
Title: Romantic Piano Music 6
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 2/15/1994
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Ballets & Dances, Dances, Waltzes, Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Ballads, Fantasies, Short Forms, Suites, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Strings
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 730099521529

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CD Reviews

Technically demanding

Leslie Richford | Selsingen, Lower Saxony | 01/21/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The sixth volume of ?Romantic Piano Favourites? was recorded in spring and summer of 1988 and is able to escape the censure to which some of its predecessor volumes were subject. Perhaps it is because there are, with the exception of Grieg?s ?Erotik? (also reasonably done), no really slow pieces on this disc that Balázs Szokolay is able to shine: he obviously has a penchant for the technically demanding fast pieces, and these come over here convincingly. Haydn, Schumann, Schubert, Raff, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Albéniz, Schulz-Evler ? all make a good impression. Chopin?s ?Barcarolle? is perhaps not quite up to the standard of the other interpretations, but this is more than compensated by the Bartók; Szokolay seems to have a particular affinity for his countryman. Schulz-Evler?s Concert Arabesque is a series of incredibly ornate variations on themes from the younger Johann Strauss?s ?Blue Danube? and makes for eleven minutes of quite fascinating listening, although I suspect that this is something of a nineteenth-century crossover piece.

The disc was recorded, like the others in the series, at Budapest?s renowned Italian Institute, and the sound is warm without being over-intimate, altogether quite enjoyable.

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