Ditta Rohmann - Weiner - Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Leó Weiner, a contemporary of Bartók and Kodály, was a profoundly important teacher in Budapest whose own music developed from a more traditional Romantic model – exemplified by the songful Románc, Op. 29 – to an absorption of his native Hungarian folk music during the 1930s. The two Divertimentos for strings, vibrantly orchestrated sequences of dances, are among the best-known works of this period. The later Hungarian Nursery Rhymes and Folk Songs draw on some archaic and very popular native melodies. Volumes 1 and 2 can be heard on 8.573491 and 8.573847.

This is Volume 3 of Valéria Csányi’s ongoing series of the complete orchestral works by Weiner, with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV. Vol. 1 includes the complete ballet C song or and Tünde (8.573491)in which Gramophone wrote that ‘Csányi shapes the score as if she really loves it’, while Fanfare stated that ‘this disc represents a charming discovery.’

"In time scale he was contemporary to Bartok and Kodaly, but apart from their shared research and use of Hungarian folk music, he had little in common with them, his own output locked into the late 19th century. He had enjoyed some success in his early years when his works were performed in the prestigious international concert halls, but he was soon forgotten after his death in 1960. This, the third invaluable disc surveying his orchestral music,contains works from much of his life, and displays listener-friendly and tuneful melodic music. Opening with the Romance from 1949, an overtly beautiful encore-length score with a solo part for cello and harp. Two Divertimentos from the 1930’s call just for orchestral strings, and use real Hungarian folk tunes heard and notated by Weiner. There is obviously an added modern idiom, but they take us back into the Hungarian countryside with vivacious dances that really should find a ready market among today’s major chamber orchestras. The swirling Fox Dance and Transylvanian Barn Dance in the First, with the highly energized close of the Swineherd’s Song in the Second, are most ear-catching. More conventional in classical music terms, the Pastorale, fantaisie et fugue is a lengthy score, each ‘section’ becoming a symphonic movement for strings, the fugue unusually jovial. Nine short Nursery Rhymes and Folk Songs complete a most desirable release from the Budapest Orchestra. Let us hope for more Weiner." (David’s Review Corner)

TRACKLIST

1. Ditta Rohmann - Romanze, Op. 29
2. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - I. Lakodalmas
3. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - II. Tréfálkozás
4. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - III. Panaszos ének
5. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - IV. Kanász-nóta
6. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - I. Pastorale
7. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - II. Phantaisie
8. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - III. Fugue
9. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - No. 1, Szomorú fűzfának harminchárom ága
10. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - No. 2, Szőlőhegyen keresztül
11. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - No. 3, Tavaszi szél
12. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - No. 4, Lányom, lányom, gyöngyvirágom
13. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - No. 5, Gyergyói verbunk
14. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - No. 6, Mért küldött a kisasszony
15. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - No. 7, Mély a Tiszának a széle
16. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - No. 8, Áll előttem egy virágszál
17. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - No. 9, Eger felé
18. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - I. Jó alapos csárdás
19. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - II. Rókatánc
20. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - III. Marosszéki keringős
21. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - IV. Verbunkos
22. Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV - V. Csűrdöngölő



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