MAV Symphony Orchestra - Farkas Orchestral Music, Vol. 6 (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) is often viewed as a gifted miniaturist, sifting through Baroque and popular Hungarian sources to produce glittering orchestral dances of infectious energy. That Farkas does indeed exist, as in the suite from the ballet The Sly Students, but this album also shows an entirely different side to his musical personality. His Preludio e Fuga finds him experimenting with dodecaphony – but he offered a caution: ‘In the twelve-tone theme of the fugue, I did not use Schoenberg’s orthodox model but a softer form, more euphoric, with a rounder and more attractive sonority – I am thinking of works by Luigi Dallapiccola or […] Frank Martin’. His only symphony was a victim of Communist orthodoxy, so severely criticised at Party meetings that Farkas shelved the score. This first complete recording reveals a work that is both big-boned and big-hearted – one of the finest of all Hungarian symphonies.

TRACKLIST

1. MAV Symphony Orchestra - The Sly Students Suite: I. Fair in Debrecen
2. MAV Symphony Orchestra - The Sly Students Suite: II. Air de danse
3. MAV Symphony Orchestra - The Sly Students Suite: III. Students' Dance
4. István Trejer - The Sly Students Suite: IV. Gypsy Music
5. MAV Symphony Orchestra - The Sly Students Suite: V. Pas de deux
6. MAV Symphony Orchestra - The Sly Students Suite: VI. Finale
7. MAV Symphony Orchestra - Symphony: I. Overture
8. MAV Symphony Orchestra - Symphony: II. Elegia
9. MAV Symphony Orchestra - Symphony: III. Scherzo
10. MAV Symphony Orchestra - Symphony: IV. Finale
11. MAV Symphony Orchestra - Preludio e fuga: I. Preludio
12. MAV Symphony Orchestra - Preludio e fuga: II. Fuga



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