Leó Weiner: Violin Sonatas
Label: Hyperion Catalog: CDA67735 Format: CD Hagai Shaham, violin & Arnon Erez, pianoLeó Weiner (1885–1960): Violin Sonata No 1 in D major Op 9 / Violin Sonata No 2 in F sharp minor Op 11 / Peregi verbunk Pereg recruiting dance Op 40 / Lakodalmas Wedding dance Op 21b / Három magyar népi tánc Three Hungarian folk dances arranged by TIBOR NEY (1906–1981) / Húsz könnyu´´ kis darab Twenty easy little pieces arranged by TIBOR FÜLEP (b1923) Hagai Shaham has made himself the master of the Hungarian idiom which prevailed in much Romantic violin music. He now turns to a composer who was one of the leading figures of new Hungarian music in the first few years of the twentieth century, although largely forgotten now. Leó Weiner was regularly hailed as the great new hope of Hungarian music—in 1908 one critic prophesied that he was the Hungarian symphonist that everyone had been waiting for. But in fact he did not produce any symphonies, and it was in chamber music that he fully achieved his early promise. Price: $19.98 |