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Notes and Editorial Reviews
Recording Director: Wilma Cozart
Musical Supervisor: Harold Lawrence
Chief Engineer and Technical Supervisor: C. Robert Fine
Produced for Compact Disc by Wilma Cozart Fine
The combination of the Hungarians Doráti, Kodály and Bartók in the present recording is a happy one since few interpretive artsists were as closely associated with these composers and their works as the late, former music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. While still in his teens, Antal Doráti (1906-1988) studied with Kodály and Bartók at the Budapest Academy of Music, and from the time he made his conductorial debut at the age of 18, was an ardent supporter of their
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compositions.
The Minneapolis recordings were made in Northrop Memorial Auditorium of the University of Minnesota on November 17, 1956.
from the liner notes by Sedgewick Clark
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Works on This Recording
1.
Hungarian Sketches (5), Sz 97 by Béla Bartók
Conductor:
Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1931; Budapest, Hungary
2.
Romanian Folkdances for String Orchestra, Sz 68 by Béla Bartók
Conductor:
Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1917; Budapest, Hungary
3.
Dances of Marosszék by Zoltán Kodály
Conductor:
Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Hungarica
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1927; Hungary
4.
Dances of Galánta by Zoltán Kodály
Conductor:
Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Philharmonia Hungarica
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1933; Hungary
5.
Háry János, Op. 15: Suite by Zoltán Kodály
Performer:
Toni Koves-Steiner (Cimbalom)
Conductor:
Antal Doráti
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1927; Hungary
Featured Sound Samples
Romanian Folk Dances for String Orchestra (Bartók)
Dances of Galánta (Kodály)
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