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Ferenc Farkas: Complete Wind Quintets

Dieter Lange (double-bass), Daniel Dodds (violin), Ulrike Schneider (mezzo)

Phoebus Quintet

Ferenc Farkas: Complete Wind Quintets

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In volume of output, Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) is something of a Hungarian Villa-Lobos, and his Serenade from 1951 has a touch of the Brazilian composer's fluid fecundity of invention. The...

BBC Music Magazine, August 20065 out of 5 stars

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Ferenc Farkas: Complete Wind Quintets

Dieter Lange (double-bass), Daniel Dodds (violin), Ulrike Schneider (mezzo)

Phoebus Quintet

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Awards:

In volume of output, Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) is something of a Hungarian Villa-Lobos, and his Serenade from 1951 has a touch of the Brazilian composer's fluid fecundity of invention. The...

BBC Music Magazine, August 20065 out of 5 stars

More reviews

About

Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) was one of the longest-lived members of the wave of Hungarian nationalist composers which began with the rise of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. A student of Ottorino Respighi in Rome, Farkas blended Respighi’s Latin melodiousness with the Magyar folk-heritage that Bartók and Kodály had made the central element of Hungarian music. His Old Hungarian Dances of the 17th Century have become a staple of the wind-quintet repertoire; the other five works on this disk display the same irrepressible joie de vivre.

Contents and tracklist

Farkas: Serenade
Work length8:52
  • Phoebus Quintet
I. Allegro
Track length3:14
II. Andante espressivo
Track length2:40
III. Saltarello
Track length2:58
Farkas: 4 Pezzi
Work length9:14
  • Dieter Lange
  • Phoebus Quintet
I. Intrada (Version for double bass and woodwind quintet)
Track length1:59
II. Scherzo (Version for double bass and woodwind quintet)
Track length1:55
III. Petit poeme (Version for double bass and woodwind quintet)
Track length2:43
IV. Rondo (Version for double bass and woodwind quintet)
Track length2:37
Farkas: Gyumolcskosar (Fruit basket)
Work length17:47
  • Ulrike Schneider
  • Phoebus Quintet
No. 1, Gaspar [Punch]
Track length1:00
No. 2, Ladika [the Magic Box]
Track length1:00
No. 3, Marasztalas [Sunbeams]
Track length1:49
No. 4, Falusi reggel [Morning in the Village]
Track length0:41
No. 5, Mondoka [Violets]
Track length1:03
No. 6, A kobeka [the Stone Frog]
Track length1:05
No. 7, Altatodal [Lullaby]
Track length2:26
No. 8, Szancsengo [Sleighbells]
Track length0:42
No. 9, Bekakiraly [Frog King]
Track length2:06
No. 10, A Tunder [the Little Elf]
Track length1:58
No. 11, Paprika Jancsi szerenadja [Harlequin Serenade]
Track length2:04
No. 12, Deli felhok [Midday Cloud]
Track length1:53
Farkas: Antiche danze ungheresi del 17. Secolo (Old Hungarian Dances of the 17th Century)
Work length10:08
  • Phoebus Quintet
I. Intrada. Allegro moderato
Track length2:25
II. Lento: Moderato maestoso
Track length2:42
III. Danza della scapole: Allegro quasi Scherzo
Track length1:27
IV. Chorea: Moderato
Track length2:04
V. Saltarello: Allegro
Track length1:30
Farkas: Rondo capriccio (Version for violin and woonwind quintet)
Work length9:03
Farkas: Lavottiana
Work length16:16
  • Phoebus Quintet
I. Indulas Pannonia fele (March to Pannonia)
Track length3:05
II. Menuett (Minuet)
Track length3:03
III. Lassu verbunk es figura (Slow Verbunkos and Figura)
Track length2:39
IV. Nemet tancnota (German Dance-tune)
Track length3:14
V. Rondo Vigadozas a korcsmaban (Rondo in the Inn)
Track length4:15

Awards and reviews

  • BBC Music Magazine
    August 2006
    Chamber Choice

August 2006

In volume of output, Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) is something of a Hungarian Villa-Lobos, and his Serenade from 1951 has a touch of the Brazilian composer's fluid fecundity of invention. The Phoebus Quintet perform with deftness, wit and nimble mastery. It's an old cliché of critical special pleading, I know, but here is music which really does deserve to be much better known.
5 out of 5 stars
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