classical music: hungary

classical music: hungary

classical music:

Hungary

Discovering Masterpieces: Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra [DVD Video]

Euroarts, 2007

A Helpful Introduction to and Brilliant Performance of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
In 2003 Pierre Boulez led the Berliner Philharmoniker in a performance of Bartók's 'Concerto for Orchestra' at the beautiful Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in Lisbon and camera crews recorded it. This DVD presents that performance in up-to-date video and audio, smoothly ...

Bartók Album

Bela Bartok, Hungarian Traditional, ...

Hannibal, 1999

Re-living the past
This newest Muzsikas album includes 4 excelent elements: - Bela Bartok's genius for documenting folk melodies - Muzsikas orchestra whish reproduces traditional music with passion - guest star Marta Sebastian, passionate voice to reveale sadness from Transilvania - and ...

Johann Strauss: Waltzes

Johann II Strauss, Willi Boskovsky, ...

Decca, 2001

The very, very best Johann Strauss Jr. recordings
No orchestra in the world has ever known how to play the waltzes of Johann Strauss Jr. as well as the Wiener Philharmoniker . . . and no conductor has ever led the Philharmoniker in this repertoire in as perfect a Strauss style as Willi Boskovsky (the orchestra's ...

National Anthems of the World: Swarovski Orchestra

Abdur Rahman Al-Khatib, Albrecht, ...

Koch Int'l Classics, 2004

excellent selection & quality sound
Swarovski Orchestra did an excellent job in this compilation. I work in Foreign Service & I use this CD to play US anthem & the host country anthem during events. Unlike other compilations which shorten the pieces, this offers full-length pieces saving me from ...

Kurtag: Jatekok / Marta and Gyorgy Kurtag

Johann Sebastian Bach, György Kurtág, ...

Ecm Records, 2000

Extraordinary music superbly played
This is one of the finest CDs of contemporary piano music I have ever heard. The music is spare, fragmented, and frequently "empty" -- not empty of content, but empty in the way the Grand Canyon is empty. Not knowing very much about Zen I will still venture to say ...

After the Storm - The American Exile of Béla Bartók / Menuhin, Solti
George Solti, Yehudi Menuhin

KULTUR VIDEO, 2008

It s as though we ve been caught in a storm at sea and blown to shore with no more than the clothes on our backs So wrote the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) on his arrival in New York in 1940, after losing his luggage on the voyage from war-torn Europe and finding himself sadly lost in an unfamiliar culture. He was to spend the ...

Csardas Hungarian Gypsy Music

Anonymous, Grigoras Dinicu, ...

Naxos, 1995

Gypsy fire!
This music is amazing. Authentically captures the spirit of traditional gypsy folk music wonderfully. I guess the best way to describe this music is to tell you what the liner notes say: "Popular Hungarian gypsy music owes much of its form to earlier aristocratic ...

National Anthems of the World
Anonymous, Austrian Anonymous, ...

Madacy Records, 2004

Strauss: The Best of Vienna

Johann II Strauss, Johann II and Josef Strauss, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1999

Amazing truly Amazing
This 2 CD is amazing. It is great for plane rides and other things. I always listen to it at work. Allmost every song on this CD is beautiful and graceful. The blue danube is a classic and my personal favorite song on this album. Some of the songs are okay but ...

Christmas Music From Medieval Hungary

Medieval Hungarian Polyphony Anonymous

Hmf Classical Exp., 2001

Surpassing Beauty
This was purchased on a whim, but has become a favorite, one that I have given to several friends & family members. We listen to it year-round, not just during the Christmas holidays. The singing is sublime, and the women's voices so perfectly attuned that it ...

Matt Haimovitz: Goulash

Matt Haimovitz, Bela Bartok, ...

Oxingale Records, 2005

Great playing plus a cover of Kashmir - how can you go wrong?
I'm a fan of Cello music and this is VERY well played and a really wide variety of stuff which is a good thing. I've got nothing against the standard catalog of music but it's good to get outside the box. PLUS it's got a rockin' all cello cover of Led Zepplin's ...

25 Strauss Favorites

Johann II Strauss, Johann II and Josef Strauss

Vox (Classical), 2005

Wonderful Music
The whole family is enjoying these CDs and keep telling me how glad they are I purchased them.

Deep in My Heart

Sigmund Romberg, Adolph Deutsch, ...

Asv Living Era, 2006

Romberg The Magnificent
If you don't appreciate Sigmund Romberg, you have no soul. I wish the CD would have included his "Shadows on the Moon" (from "The Girl of the Golden West")sung by the devine, Perfect Ingenue, Jeanette Mac Donald. That musical oater was based on a Puccini Opera & ...

Kafka-Fragmente Op. 24
Gyorgy Kurtag, Juliane Banse, ...

Ecm Records, 2006

World Anthems

Anonymous, Austrian Anonymous, ...

RCA, 1998

Some excellent tracks.
With twenty-nine national anthems and John Williams' "Olympic Theme", this album offers a reasonable variety of anthems. (Curiously, there is nothing from the USSR/CIS/Russia!) The recording quality is excellent. The interpretation of the anthems seems to attempt to ...