Ferenc Farkas

Phoebus Quintet - Ferenc Farkas: Complete Wind Quintets (2006)

Phoebus Quintet - Ferenc Farkas: Complete Wind Quintets (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 71:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC0019 | Recorded: 1999, 2000

Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) was one of the longest-lived members of the wave of Hungarian nationalist composers which began with the rise of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. A student of Ottorino Respighi in Rome, Farkas blended Respighi’s Latin melodiousness with the Magyar folk-heritage that Bartók and Kodály had made the central element of Hungarian music. His Old Hungarian Dances of the 17th Century have become a staple of the wind-quintet repertoire; the other five works on this disk display the same irrepressible joie de vivre.
Adorján, Lencsés, Csáki, Szokolay, Váradi - Farkas: Chamber Music, Vol. 5 – Works with Flute & Oboe (2021)

Adorján, Lencsés, Csáki, Szokolay, Váradi - Farkas: Chamber Music, Vol. 5 – Works with Flute & Oboe (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 290 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 178 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:16:42
Classical | Label: Toccatta Classics

This twelfth release in the Toccata Classics exploration of the music of Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) once again puts his chamber music with flute in the spotlight – here with an oboe chaser. As with previous albums in this series, the music highlights the characteristics that make Farkas’ music so appealing: catchy tunes, transparent textures, buoyant rhythms, a fondness for Baroque forms and a taste for the folk-music of his native Hungary that marks him out as a true successor to Bartók and Kodály. The works in this recording are almost all reworkings – by Farkas or the two soloists here – of music first written for different forces and now taking on a new lease of life.
Gábor Farkas, MAV Symphony Orchestra & Gábor Takács-Nagy - Farkas: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5 (2017)

Gábor Farkas, MAV Symphony Orchestra & Gábor Takács-Nagy - Farkas: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 73:18 min | 297 MB
Label: Toccata Classics | Tracks: 17 | Rls.date: 2017

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.
Andràs Adorjàn - Farkas: Chamber Music, Vol. 3 – Works with Flute (2019)

Andràs Adorjàn - Farkas: Chamber Music, Vol. 3 – Works with Flute (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) | Tracks: 35 | 75:04 min | 324 MB
Style: Classical | Label: Toccata Classics

This tenth release in the Toccata Classics exploration of the music of Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) puts his chamber music with flute in the spotlight. As with previous albums in this series, the music here highlights the characteristics that make Farkas’ music so appealing: catchy tunes, transparent textures, buoyant rhythms, a fondness for Baroque forms and a taste for the folk-music of his native Hungary that marks him out as a true successor to Bartók and Kodály. Some of these pieces speak a tougher language that shows Farkas to have been in touch with his times, but it is the infectious melodic appeal of most of the music here that carries the day.
Quartetto Santórsola - Gilardino: Music for Guitar Quartet (2019)

Quartetto Santórsola - Gilardino: Music for Guitar Quartet (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 231 MB | Tracks: 16 | 58:35 min
Style: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

Premiere recordings of original music and transcriptions, all imbued with the Mediterranean colour and flamboyance of the guitar quartet genre and played with polish by a renowned Italian ensemble.

Gábor Farkas - The Schumann Album (2017)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at July 8, 2017
Gábor Farkas - The Schumann Album (2017)

Gábor Farkas - The Schumann Album (2017)
Classical, Piano | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:07:22 | 155 MB
Label: Hungaroton

With the exception of a stint in Italy, the young pianist Gábor Farkas is a product of pure Hungarian tradition, differing in this from the multinational training common to so many artists of international stature. Born in 1981, he began to study music at the age of five. Farkas attended the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, a Budapest conservatory with roots in Franz Liszt's own time. In the year 2000 he made an initial splash, winning the Béla Bartók Piano Competition in the Austrian spa town of Baden bei Wien. It would be the first of many competition victories; he followed it up with a win at the Hungarian National Radio Piano Competition in 2003. All this occurred before his graduation from the conservatory in 2005; he went on for a doctoral degree there in 2014, studying with Zoltán Kocsis.

Sarah Christ - Un Bal: Dances for Harp Solo (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 28, 2021
Sarah Christ - Un Bal: Dances for Harp Solo (2021)

Sarah Christ - Un Bal: Dances for Harp Solo (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 217 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 186 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:19:46
Classical | Label: audite Musikproduktion

Dances are among the valuable “raw materials” that composers of all epochs have incorporated into their works. Baroque suites are based on dance forms from various countries, classical symphonies usually contain a minuet or a dance movement, and in the nineteenth century, composers of emerging musical nations not only made use of folk songs, but also, and above all, of the dances of their native regions in order to form an independent language. With this album, harpist Sarah Christ shows that dance is as rich in moods as it is in forms: on her CD Un bal – named after the second movement of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique – we hear the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, which moves wonderfully freely within the framework of strict baroque models; the melancholy elegance in Chopin’s and Debussy’s waltzes; the folklore and rusticity in the pieces of Ferenc Farkas and Manuel de Falla; and the melancholy of Astor Piazzolla’s tangos.

Víkingur Ólafsson - From Afar (2022)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 6, 2022
Víkingur Ólafsson - From Afar (2022)

Víkingur Ólafsson - From Afar (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:43:23 | 289 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

"From Afar" is a new album full of beautiful arrangements recorded on two pianos with the repertoire mirrored on both grand piano and upright piano. Inspired by a meeting with the iconic Hungarian composer György Kurtág, this album is a musical response with music from: Kurtág, J. S. Bach, Brahms, W. A. Mozart, Adès, Schumann, Birgisson or Kaldalóns. With beautifully evocative titles & forgotten melodies, Víkingur Ólafsson creates a thread of stories within a bigger structure: nature, home, childhood, family.

Víkingur Ólafsson - From Afar (2022)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Jan. 17, 2023
Víkingur Ólafsson - From Afar (2022)

Víkingur Ólafsson - From Afar (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 351 Mb | Total time: 1 h 43 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 1681 | Recorded: 2022

Celebrated for his innovative programming and award-winning recordings, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is offering a window into his musical life story with his new album, From Afar. The highly personal double album reflects Ólafsson’s musical DNA, from childhood memories growing up in Iceland to his international career and contemporary inspirations.