Kodaly: Concerto For Orchestra / Kovacs
) | Label: HUNGAROTON Catalog: HCD32723 Format: CD Miskolc Symphony Orchestra; KovacsComposed by: Kodaly, Zoltan For the 50th anniversary celebration of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s founding, the orchestra in 1939 asked Zoltan Kodály to compose a new orchestral work; the resulting Concerto For Orchestra was premièred in 1941 under then conductor Frederic Stock. Dedicated to the memory of Arturo Toscanini, Kodály’s three-movement Symphony was first performed by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Ferenc Fricsay in 1961. Summer Evening (1906; rev. 1928) reveals early hints of the folk music gathered during his first collecting trips, which inspired and infused much of his later output.  Price: $28.98 |