Gábor Farkas, MAV Symphony Orchestra & Gábor Takács-Nagy - Farkas: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5 (2017)

Tracklist
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01. Symphonic Overture
02. Elegia
03. Piano Concertino: I. Allegro
04. Piano Concertino: II. Andante
05. Piano Concertino: III. Allegro
06. Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S. 173: No. 7, Funérailles (Orch. F. Farkas)
07. Planctus et consolationes: I. Introduction
08. Planctus et consolationes: II. Marcia funebre I
09. Planctus et consolationes: III. Consolatio I
10. Planctus et consolationes: IV. Marcia funebre II
11. Planctus et consolationes: V. Consolatio II
12. Planctus et consolationes: VI. Consolatio III
13. Planctus et consolationes: VII. Furioso
14. Planctus Et Consolationes: VIII. Consolatio IV
15. Dances from the Mátra: I. Young Men's Dance
16. Dances from the Mátra: II. Young Women's Dance
17. Dances from the Mátra: III. Gipsy Dance


The Toccata Classics survey of the music of the Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (19052000) continues with this fifth album of his orchestral music. Earlier releases have presented the lighter side of his music, with its quasi-Baroque textures and buoyant good humour, but this one shows Farkas working on a larger scale and in generally darker mood. Here he uses the full resources of the symphony orchestra in a number of powerful and dramatic works, including two movements from a symphony that he later withdrew and an orchestration of Liszts Funérailles. A lighter bonne bouche the Dances from the Mátra, rather like Kodálys Dances from Gálanta rounds things off.

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