Tamás Zétényi - Kodály & Ligeti: Sonatas for Solo Cello, Ligeti: Sonata for Viola Solo (2023) [Official Digital Download]

An intense and highly sought-after cellist on the Hungarian classical, contemporary, and improvisation scenes, for his first solo disc Tamás Zétényi has selected some of the most important solo string instrument pieces of the twentieth century: this album features solo sonatas by Kodály and Ligeti. In three works by two Hungarian composers, we can trace how the solo string genre, founded by Bach, was suddenly revived in the twentieth century. Kodály’s grandiose cello sonata intones with the intimacy of a soliloquy, deploying folk-music inspiration and the new harmonic world of Impressionism alongside the Bachian prototypes.

Kodály was undoubtedly an influence on Ligeti, who however in his own cello sonata followed leaner structural principles and Bartókian models. Ligeti’s late work, the viola sonata, which summarizes his oeuvre and forges an alloy of new tonality and folk melodies of the Carpathian Basin, is here heard in Tamás Zétényi’s own transcription, released here with the consent and approval of Vera Ligeti, the composer’s widow and heir.

Tracklist:
01. Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8: I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato
02. Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8: II. Adagio (con grand’ espressione)
03. Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8: III. Allegro molto vivace
04. Sonata for Solo Cello: I. Dialogo
05. Sonata for Solo Cello: II. Capriccio
06. Sonata for Viola Solo: I. Hora lungă (Arr. for Cello by Tamás Zétényi)
07. Sonata for Viola Solo: II. Loop (Arr. for Cello by Tamás Zétényi)
08. Sonata for Viola Solo: III. Facsar (Arr. for Cello by Tamás Zétényi)
09. Sonata for Viola Solo: IV. Prestissimo con sordino (Arr. for Cello by Tamás Zétényi)
10. Sonata for Viola Solo: V. Lamento (Arr. for Cello by Tamás Zétényi)
11. Sonata for Viola Solo: VI. Chaconne chromatique (Arr. for Cello by Tamás Zétényi)


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