László Fenyö & Julia Okruashvili - Harmonies Hongroises (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

“During these entire dozen years which I spent in Weimar, there was one great idea valways on my mind – the reformation of music through its deeper bond with the art of poetry”, Franz Liszt wrote in a letter from 1860 to his piano student and close friend Agnes Street-Klindworth (1825-1906). But Liszt ́s entire artistic life shifted even more in the field of tension between art and religion, between freedom of expression and the strictness of dogmatic limitations. This artistic credo not least becomes clear in his large-scale piano cycle Harmonies poétiques et religieuses S.273. This varied piano cycle, dating back to the year 1835, relates to a poetry collection by the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) and combines great concert pieces (f.e. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude or Funérailles) with simple and shorter compositions partly including Gregorian melodies.

The musicians of this recording – the pianist Julia Julia Okruashvili and the cellist László Fenyő – were inspired by Liszt’s poetic-religious artistic life to this CD Harmonies Hongroises, which combines music by Liszt, who was born 1811 in the Kingdom of Hungary, with music of Hungarian composers from the first half of the 20th century.

Tracklist:
01. Bartók: Rhapsody for cello and piano No. 1, SZ.87: I. Lassú. Moderato
02. Bartók: Rhapsody for cello and piano No. 1, 1 SZ.87: II. Friss. Allegretto moderato
03. Liszt: Notturno No 3 in A Flat Major, S.541/3: Poco allegro, con affetto
04. Bartók: Cantique d'amour, S.173/10: No. 10 from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
05. Kodály: Cello Sonata No. 1, op. 4: I. Fantasia - Allegro di molto
06. Kodály: Cello Sonata No. 1, op. 4: II. Allegro con spirito - Molto adagio
07. Kodály: Ach was ist doch unser Leben, BWV 743: Con veemenza, poco rubato
08. Kodály: Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV 762: Largo, comiciando poco più mosso
09. Kodály: Christus der uns selig macht, BWV 747: Con moto, inquieto
10. Dohnányi: Ruralia Hungarica op. 32d: Andante rubato, alla zingaresca


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