László Borbély - Snapshots (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Soproni Prelude and Fugue in G I. Prelude
02. Soproni Prelude and Fugue in G II. Fugue
03. Sari Snapshots No. 1 “In Ambush”
04. Sari Snapshots No. 2 “Tale”
05. Sari Snapshots No. 3 “The Piano-tuner”
06. Sari Snapshots No. 4 “Chess Players”
07. Sari Snapshots No. 5 “Stubbornly”
08. Soproni Memory Pages No. 1 “Remembering“
09. Soproni Memory Pages No. 2 “Like A Stream“
10. Soproni Memory Pages No. 8 “Fantasy with Fughetta“ I. Fantasy
11. Soproni Memory Pages No. 8 “Fantasy with Fughetta“ II. Fughetta
12. Soproni Memory Pages No. 10 “Novellette“
13. Soproni Memory Pages No. 20 “Canzone“
14. Soproni Memory Pages No. 13 “Playfully“
15. Sari Snapshots No. 6 “Hesitating Decision“
16. Sari Snapshots No. 7 “35 Candles for The Birthday of Albrecht Pfister“
17. Sari Snapshots No. 8 “Hommage a John Cage“
18. Sari Snapshots No. 9 “It is Hailing on The Tin Roof“
19. Sari Snapshots No. 10 “The Portrait of Sisyphos“
20. Soproni Prelude and Fugue in B-flat I. Prelude
21. Soproni Prelude and Fugue in B-flat II. Fugue
22. Soproni Memory pages No. 23 “Postludium“

Our album selection is both an homage and an in memoriam. The music of József Sári, who would have celebrated his 90th birthday this year, and József Soproni (who would have been 95 this year) is radically different, yet not so different that the two composers do not share similar aesthetic principles and influences, which they followed in creating most of their works. This is obviously and primarily due to the indelible (and unrivalled) magic of Béla Bartók, but perhaps also to the fact that Soproni and Sári, belonging to the same generation, approached the piano in a somewhat similar way. However, this does not mean that their music is devoid of a kind of universality or eclecticism in the noblest and best sense of the word, and bears only traces of provincial influences – far from it.

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