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Franz Liszt was a lifelong appropriator and toucher-upper of other people’s music, much in the manner of today’s DJs who mix, match, arrange, and derange
Gold and the Woman, written in 1943, is the sole opera of Hungarian composer Jeno Kenessey (1905-76). The story, which takes place in Upper Hungary
Although in Antonio Salieri’s time there was no controversy about his competence as a composer, today our opinion of this one-time teacher of such luminaries
Good Romantic violin music by violinist/composers isn’t easy to come by, especially in the concerto department, and that makes the neglect of these four marvelous
The famous Joseph Szigeti/Bela Bartók April 13, 1940 Library of Congress Recital, first issued on Vanguard LPs in the 1960s, also was brought out by
Although Joseph Bengraf (1745-91) was born and raised in Germany, his musical career flourished in Hungary. His diverse creative output encompassed church music, strophic songs,
Four4 (or rather, four to the fourth power–a symbol that this computer won’t duplicate, so see the album art for the correct expression) is a
Collectors may know some of these performances from an earlier APR release devoted to pianist György Cziffra’s Hungarian recordings from the early to mid 1950s,
Nearly 15 years after Bela Bartók’s death in 1945, his widow, pianist Ditta Bartók-Pásztory, was commissioned to record the cycles For Children and Mikrokosmos. The
It’s easy to imagine that a disc of sonatas for harpsichord “with accompaniments for a violin” by Carl Abel is pretty close to scraping the
