Seiber: Orchestral Works - Works For Violin & Pian

Album cover art for upc 881488210439
Label: haenssler CLASSIC
Catalog: HC21043
Format: COMPACT DISC

Karmon, Nina; Triendl, Oliver; Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn; Török, Levente

The friendship between Mátyás Seiber and Antal Doráti dates back to their youth, when they were the two youngest students in Zoltán Kodály's composition class in Budapest in the 1920s. Doráti was one year younger than Seiber and held him in high esteem from the beginning. In the memoirs, Így láttuk Kodályt [‘Thus We Saw Kodály’], he writes the following: "The two 'best' were Mátyás Seiber and Lajos Bárdos. Matyi [Mátyás] wrote a great string quartet at the time, which has survived. One of our tasks was to write variations on a Handel theme. In response to one of Seiber's slow-tempo variations, Mr Kodály said: 'That's nice'. In our eyes - at least in my eyes - that was the canonization of Matyi."

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