Farkas: Chamber Music, Vol. 5 – Works with Flute & Oboe Adorján, Lencsés, Csáki, Szokolay, Váradi

• Ferenc Farkas (1905 - 2000): Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century (Version for Flute & Piano):
• 1Farkas: Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century (Version for Flute & Piano): I. Allegro moderato01:51
• 2Farkas: Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century (Version for Flute & Piano): II. Andante moderato02:19
• 3Farkas: Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century (Version for Flute & Piano): III. Allegro01:54
• 4Farkas: Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century (Version for Flute & Piano): IV. Allegro01:37
• Sonatina No. 1 for Violin & Piano (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute & Piano):
• 5Farkas: Sonatina No. 1 for Violin & Piano (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute & Piano): I. Allegro con slancio02:59
• 6Farkas: Sonatina No. 1 for Violin & Piano (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute & Piano): II. Largo02:12
• 7Farkas: Sonatina No. 1 for Violin & Piano (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute & Piano): III. Presto02:19
• Ferenc Farkas:
• 8Farkas: Gyógyulóban (Arr. for Flute & Piano)01:30
• Sonatina No. 2 for Violin & Piano (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute & Piano):
• 9Farkas: Sonatina No. 2 for Violin & Piano (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute & Piano): I. Allegro molto03:00
• 10Farkas: Sonatina No. 2 for Violin & Piano (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute & Piano): II. Andante01:39
• 11Farkas: Sonatina No. 2 for Violin & Piano (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute & Piano): III. Scherzando03:11
• Ferenc Farkas:
• 12Farkas: Variazioni ungheresi (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute & Guitar)04:52
• 13Farkas: Meditazione for Flute & Piano04:02
• 14Farkas: Alla danza ungherese (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute & Piano)04:30
• 15Farkas: Aria e rondo all'ungherese (Arr. A. Adorján for Flute, Oboe & Piano)07:29
• 3 Burlesques for Piano:
• 16Farkas: 3 Burlesques for Piano: No. 1, Allegro02:53
• 17Farkas: 3 Burlesques for Piano: No. 2, Moderato, comodo01:19
• 18Farkas: 3 Burlesques for Piano: No. 3, Allegro01:34
• Sonatina for Oboe & Piano:
• 19Farkas: Sonatina for Oboe & Piano: I. Allegro non troppo03:53
• 20Farkas: Sonatina for Oboe & Piano: II. Andante moderato03:19
• 21Farkas: Sonatina for Oboe & Piano: III. Allegro02:02
• Ferenc Farkas:
• 22Farkas: Epithalamium (Version for Oboe & Organ)04:11
• Cantiones optimae (Arr. L. Lencsés for Oboe d'amore & Organ):
• 23Farkas: Cantiones optimae (Arr. L. Lencsés for Oboe d'amore & Organ): No. 1, Bátoritás a halál ellen01:56
• 24Farkas: Cantiones optimae (Arr. L. Lencsés for Oboe d'amore & Organ): No. 2, Könyörgés02:35
• 25Farkas: Cantiones optimae (Arr. L. Lencsés for Oboe d'amore & Organ): No. 3, Máriá ének02:40
• 26Farkas: Cantiones optimae (Arr. L. Lencsés for Oboe d'amore & Organ): No. 4, O Jézus01:47
• Ferenc Farkas:
• 27Farkas: Arioso (Arr. L. Lencsés for Cor anglais & Organ)02:41
• Total Runtime01:16:14

Info zu Farkas: Chamber Music, Vol. 5 – Works with Flute & Oboe

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.

András Adorján, flute (tracks 1–15)
Lajos Lencsés, oboe (tracks 15, 19–22), oboe d’amore (tracks 23–26), cor anglais (track 27)
András Csáki, guitar (track 12)
Balázs Szokolay, piano (tracks 1–11, 13–21)
Antal Váradi, organ (tracks 22–27)

András Adorján
was born in Budapest, grew up in Copenhagen and lives since 1974 in Munich. After obtaining a dentist diploma in Copenhagen in 1968 he completed his musical studies under the auspieces of Jean-Pierre Rampal and Aurèle Nicolet.

As a laureat of international flute competitions (Montreux 1968, Paris 1971) and the principal flutist of important European symphony orchestras in Stockholm, Cologne, Baden-Baden and Munich he was 1987 appointed professor for flute at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and continued 1996-2013 teaching at the Musikhochschule in Munich.

András Adorján is a welcome guest at important music festivals and he is very active in widening the flute literature by playing many compositions inspired by and written for him as well as many by him (re)discovered and edited pieces.

With more than 100 recorded albums for the labels DENON, ERATO, ORFEO, RCA, SONY, PREMIERS HORIZONS, TUDOR, FARAO CLASSICS and as the editor of a unique and extensive encyclopedia Lexikon der Flöte published by Laaber Verlag 2009 he is today one of the best known and most prominent flutists of his generation.

His has served as the president of the German Flute Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Flöte) since its foundation in 1985, received 1968 the Jacob-Gade-Preis in Copenhagen, the Prize of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik in 1988, was in 1996 honoured with the Doppler-Ring of the Hungarian Flute Society, in 2007 by the Premio di carriera of the Italian Falaut-Associazione and received in 2018 the «Lifetime Achievement Award» of the American National Flute Association (NFA).

Lajos Lencses
studied at the Music Academy of Budapest, at the National Superior Conservatory of Music with Pierre Pierlot, has been awarded the prize of Geneva in 1968 and is oboe soloist at the Philharmonia Hungarica from 1967 – 1971, then principal oboe at the Symphonic Radio orchestra of Stuttgart since 1971. As a professor and oboe soloist, M Lencses is invited all over the world (Europe, USA, Asia) and is always an appreciated partner for famous musicians as Sergiu Celibidache, Karl Münchinger, Sir Neville Marriner, Christophe Eschenbach, Jean-Pierre Rampal. Discography : More than 50 discs as a soloist, many prizes as ‘’ Diapason d’Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique’’…

András Csáki
was born in Budapest 1981, and began to play the guitar at the age of 11. He graduated at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music with honor in 2007, where his professor was József Eötvös. In 2012/2013 he pursued graduate studies in the University of Southern California as a student of Scott Tennant. He received his Doctorate degree in 2014 at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.

Since 1995 András has been a regular participant of international master classes all over the world, including master classes held by Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Abel Carlevaro, Costas Cotsiolis, David Russell, Angel and Pepe Romero.

Until the year of 2011 he received 24 prizes, among others he was awarded with the first prize in the 51st Tokyo International Guitar Competition in 2008, and in the 42nd "Michele Pittaluga" Guitar Competition in Alessandria, Italy 2009, Julian Arcas Guitar Competition, Spain 2011.

Besides solo recitals, he is also devoted to chamber music. He has had several opportunities to play guitar concertos with symphonic orchestras in Hungary and abroad.

He has frequently been asked to give master classes in various countries, such as China, Estonia, France, Great Britain, Greece, India, Romania, Russia, USA and his native Hungary. At the moment he is appointed professor at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest.

Balázs Szokolay
was born into a family of musicians in Budapest in 1961. His father is a Kossuth prizewinner, composer Sándor Szokolay. Balázs started to play the piano at the age of five, taught by Erna Czövek. Later, at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, his professors included Klára Máthé, Pál Kadosa, Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, and Ferenc Rados. Following his graduation in 1983, he won scholarships for two more years of studies in Munich and Moscow . He was instructed by Mikhail S. Voskresensky, Amadeus Webersinke, Ludwig Hoffmann and Yvonne Lefebure.

From 1973 to 1990, he has been a prizewinner at many international piano and chamber music competitions, including Usti-nad-Labem, Zwickau , Leeds , Brussels , Montreal , Terni , and Budapest . More recently, he has been a frequent juror in major music competitions in countries such as the Netherlands , Italy , Bulgaria , and Russia . He has given concerts and offered masterclasses in over thirty countries on four continents.

His repertoire covers a wide range of styles with a strong focus on chamber music. Among his chamber music partners are Clemens Hagen, Aurèle Nicolet, Zoltán Kocsis, Miklós Perényi, Vilmos Szabadi, Bartok string-quartett, Shanghai Quartett, Gervaise de Peyer. As a soloist, Mr. Szokolay has performed with many orchestras, including the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. In Belgrade , he replaced at the last moment Nikita Magaloff in the Brahms Concerto No. 1. To further expand his repertoire, Szokolay played harpsichord and conducted the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in London .

He has recorded extensively with Naxos , Hungaroton, and other recording companies. One of his Grieg-Naxos CDs was named "Record of the Year" by London' s Daily Telegraph in 1992. He has played numerous radio and television broadcasts at the request, among others, of the BBC - London, the RIAS - Berlin, the AVRO and TROS - Holland, the RAI - Torino, the CBC - Canada, and the Hungarian Radio and Television. ...

Antal Váradi
was born in 1975 in Debrecen (Hungary). He studied organ and church music in his homeland and furthered his studies in the class of Prof. Ludger Lohmann at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. He passed his performers’ examination with distinction and is a qualified A-diploma church musician and voice teacher. Váradi has been awarded a number of prizes at international organ competitions (e.g., Nürnberg, Freiberg, Schramberg, Coldrano, Zurich). He is the boys’ choir collegium iuvenum Stuttgart’s accompanist, organist of both the Holy Cross Church and St. Thomas’ Church in Stuttgart and organ expert for the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg. He is also a sought-after accompanist for various choirs. Váradi’s intense interest in adapting symphonic works to the organ gave rise to the following arrangements: The Night on the Bare Mountain by Mussorgski, Harmonies du soir and Dance Macabre by Liszt and The Vltava by Smetana. He is active as a concert soloist both in Germany and abroad.

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