Geza Frid; Het Brabants Orkest; Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Release Date: 08 February 2019
Label: Etcetera
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8711801016337
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
"The well-known Hungarian Dutchman" was how Géza Frid was described by the press after his death. This was correct, for he had once been one of the key figures of post-WW2 Dutch musical life, although he had never renounced the musical language of his homeland. His music is characterised by a melodic imagination that was rooted in Hungarian music and folklore.
This is A stunning performance by the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of his Concerto for 2 Violins conducted by Willem van Otterloo and with Theo Olof and Herman Krebbers on violin.
Géza Frid was born in 1904 in the town of Máramarossziget in north-eastern Hungary, a region that is now part of Romania. He began piano lessons with his mother at the age of four, and later from the director of the local music school; he was able to copy almost everything faultlessly by ear. He gave his first piano recital at the age of seven.
He and his parents moved to Budapest two years later in 1913 so that he could continue his piano studies at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy of Music. In 1924, Frid was the only pupil in the history of the Academy to sit his final examination in two subjects in the same year: piano and composition.
He naturally owed much to his teachers Béla Bartók (for piano) and Zoltán Kodály (for composition), not only because of the unique pedagogical qualities of these two great
musicians, but also through their counterbalance to and personal support against the National Socialist and anti-Semitic regime of Admiral Horthy. The universities at that time were required to limit the numbers of Jewish students to a particular quota; it was thanks to such dictatorial measures and his own hopeless and desperately poor living conditions as a Jewish musician that Frid soon came to decide that he could no longer live in his homeland. He nonetheless remained friends and kept in contact with both Bartók and Kodály until their respective deaths in 1945 and 1967.
Tracklisting
Yarno Missiaen
Bruno Monteiro, Joao Paulo Santos
Jiska Lambrecht (violin), Marco Sanna (piano)
Werner Van Mechelen, Sylvie Decramer
Keigo Mukawa
Gauguin Ensemble
Michel Strauss, Jean Claude Vanden Eynden
Elena Marangou, Yorgos Ziavras
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Vladimir Delman; Milan RAI Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Schippers; Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai; New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra
Johanna Domotor; Meesun Hong Coleman; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Josef Krips; Various Orchestras
Josef Krips
Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra; Vanni Moretto
