Szabó: Complete Solo Piano Works / Balog

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
November 17, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Csaba Szabo
    • PERFORMER
      Jozsef Balog
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 17, 2023
    • UPC
      5028421971049
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI97104
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Baroque Rondo

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    2. Studies, "Vivace e Trio"

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    3. Theme

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    4. Variation 1

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    5. Variation 2

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    6. Variation 3

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    7. Variation 4

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    8. Variation 5

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    9. Scherzando

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    10. Bagatel, "The Last Scenes of Carnival"

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    11. I. Inscription

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    12. II. Slow Movement

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    13. III. Men's Dance

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    14. IV. Toccatino Ungharese

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    15. No. 1. Recitativo

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    16. No. 2. Hommage à W.A. Mozart

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    17. No. 3. Rocking

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    18. No. 4. Dance

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    19. Dance with the Fate

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    20. Parlando, Giusto e Corale

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    21. When I started from Csík, "Roaming Tune"

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    22. Theme

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    23. Variation 1

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    24. Variation 2

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    25. Variation 3

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    26. Variation 4

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    27. Variation 5

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    28. Variation 6

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    29. Variation 7

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog

    30. Variation 8

      Composer: Csaba Szabó

      Performer: József Balog


Csaba Szabó (1936–2003) composed music in almost all genres: orchestral and vocal/choral-orchestral works, chamber music, songs, choral works, staged works, incidental musical for theatre, and solos. From this important and varied oeuvre, this recording presents the complete works for piano solo of Csaba Szabó.

His piano pieces were composed over a period of almost three decades, between 1955 and 1981, and it is striking to hear the extraordinary transformations in form, technique, and richness of message that the composer’s style underwent.

He was born in Ákosfalva (Acățari), Transylvania (Romania), in 1936 and graduated in composition from the G. Dima Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) under the tutelage of Gábor Jodál and János Jagamas, themselves both students of Zoltán Kodály. His first piano pieces are youthful compositions in which – beyond an abundant joy of composing for the piano – we discover his preferences and sources of inspiration: the appreciation of classical formal structures in the Studies: Vivace e Trio and playful Scherzando, the variation form (the composer’s favorite) in the 5 Variations, expressive and dramatic virtuosity in the Bagatel and the Little Suite’s Toccatino ungharese movement, and the accumulation of percussive effects in the Dance with the Fate. His studies and research into folk music led to inspiration from folk-song: the four movements of the Little Suite are a fine example of this, but perhaps even more beautiful are the Roaming Tune and the large-scale variations Moving away. The Parlando, Giusto e Corale, written in 1973, surprises the listener with a truly avant-garde turn.