Lajtha: Symphony No. 2

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Pasquet’s knowledge and respect for the orchestra is mirrored in these performances. — MusicWeb International, 17th January 2017 More…

Release Date: 11th Nov 2016
Catalogue No: 8573644
Label: Naxos
Length: 70 minutes

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Lajtha: Symphony No. 2, Op. 27

Work length29:58

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Pécs Symphony Orchestra
Nicolás Pasquet

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Lajtha: 11 Variations, Op. 44

Work length40:23

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Pécs Symphony Orchestra
Nicolás Pasquet

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Along with his contemporaries Bartók, Kodály and Dohnányi, László Lajtha was one of the leading Hungarian composers in the first half of the twentieth century and his position as the country's greatest symphonist of that time is unrivalled. Of his nine symphonies, Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 dates from 1938 and is an intense, sombre and brooding work as if foreshadowing the horrors of the war to come. When asked to compose incidental music for Georg Höllering's film of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, Lajtha responded with three autonomous compositions of which one, the monumental Variations, Op. 44 from 1948, is recorded here. Volume 1 can be heard on Naxos 8.573643.

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17th January 2017

Pasquet’s knowledge and respect for the orchestra is mirrored in these performances.

The Classical Reviewer December 2016

The Pécs Symphony Orchestra under Nicholas Pasquet provide spirited, idiomatic performances of Hungarian composer László Lajtha’s Symphony No.2 and Variations, Op. 44 on a re-release from Naxos.

Lajtha: Symphony No. 2

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