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Special offer. Kodály & Dohnányi: Chamber Works for Strings
Simon Smith (violin), Clare Hayes (violin), Paul Silverthorne (viola) & Katherine Jenkinson (cello)
Lively refined performances of two significant 20th century Hungarians.
Special offer. Kodály & Dohnányi: Chamber Works for Strings
Simon Smith (violin), Clare Hayes (violin), Paul Silverthorne (viola) & Katherine Jenkinson (cello)
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Lively refined performances of two significant 20th century Hungarians.
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Following on from his acclaimed Resonus debut of solo works by Bartók and Kurtág (Signs, Games & Messages – RES10167), virtuoso violinist Simon Smith returns to the label with an enticing programme of chamber works for strings by Zoltán Kodály and Ernő Dohnányi.
Joined by colleagues Clare Hayes (violin), Paul Silverthorne (viola) & Katherine Jenkinson (‘cello), Smith presents three seminal chamber works from the first half of the twentieth century, performed with considerable élan by this exceptional collaboratio
Contents and tracklist
- Simon Smith, Katherine Jenkinson
- Simon Smith, Clare Hayes, Paul Silverthorne
- Simon Smith, Paul Silverthorne, Katherine Jenkinson
Awards and reviews
March 2017
Lively refined performances of two significant 20th century Hungarians.
June 2017
The three works on this album are truly wonderful and should be better known. It is good to have them placed side by side, and this is a fine presentation of all three. The four musicians from London do not form a “named” ensemble, yet they play like a long-established group, with good synergy and well-measured intonations. The instruments have beautiful voices and blend very naturally.
15th January 2017
the texture [of the Serenade] is light and airy but the sonority rich and inventive, despite the lack of a conventional lower register...[the Dohnányi] is rooted more in the Brahmsian tradition, though Hungarian passion keeps bubbling to the surface.
Classical Music March 2017
A generous and well recorded programme of 20th century Hungarian chamber works.
