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Szabó: Complete Solo Piano Works / Balog
Brilliant Classics

Szabó: Complete Solo Piano Works / Balog

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Composer
Csaba Szabo
Artist
Jozsef Balog
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Nov 17, 2023
Catalog #
BRI97104
UPC
5028421971049

About

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.

Tracklist 30 tracks

  1. 1 Baroque Rondo 01:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    Baroque Rondo
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  2. 2 Studies, "Vivace e Trio" 02:30
    Track
    2
    Title
    Studies, "Vivace e Trio"
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  3. 3 Theme 00:30
    Track
    3
    Title
    Theme
    Duration
    00:30
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  4. 4 Variation 1 00:25
    Track
    4
    Title
    Variation 1
    Duration
    00:25
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  5. 5 Variation 2 00:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    Variation 2
    Duration
    00:26
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  6. 6 Variation 3 00:46
    Track
    6
    Title
    Variation 3
    Duration
    00:46
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  7. 7 Variation 4 00:25
    Track
    7
    Title
    Variation 4
    Duration
    00:25
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  8. 8 Variation 5 00:58
    Track
    8
    Title
    Variation 5
    Duration
    00:58
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  9. 9 Scherzando 02:02
    Track
    9
    Title
    Scherzando
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  10. 10 Bagatel, "The Last Scenes of Carnival" 01:33
    Track
    10
    Title
    Bagatel, "The Last Scenes of Carnival"
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  11. 11 I. Inscription 01:35
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Inscription
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  12. 12 II. Slow Movement 01:20
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Slow Movement
    Duration
    01:20
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  13. 13 III. Men's Dance 00:44
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Men's Dance
    Duration
    00:44
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  14. 14 IV. Toccatino Ungharese 01:16
    Track
    14
    Title
    IV. Toccatino Ungharese
    Duration
    01:16
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  15. 15 No. 1. Recitativo 01:11
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 1. Recitativo
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  16. 16 No. 2. Hommage à W.A. Mozart 01:12
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 2. Hommage à W.A. Mozart
    Duration
    01:12
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  17. 17 No. 3. Rocking 01:33
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 3. Rocking
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  18. 18 No. 4. Dance 01:01
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 4. Dance
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  19. 19 Dance with the Fate 03:54
    Track
    19
    Title
    Dance with the Fate
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  20. 20 Parlando, Giusto e Corale 09:08
    Track
    20
    Title
    Parlando, Giusto e Corale
    Duration
    09:08
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  21. 21 When I started from Csík, "Roaming Tune" 04:06
    Track
    21
    Title
    When I started from Csík, "Roaming Tune"
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  22. 22 Theme 00:46
    Track
    22
    Title
    Theme
    Duration
    00:46
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  23. 23 Variation 1 00:53
    Track
    23
    Title
    Variation 1
    Duration
    00:53
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  24. 24 Variation 2 01:01
    Track
    24
    Title
    Variation 2
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  25. 25 Variation 3 01:00
    Track
    25
    Title
    Variation 3
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  26. 26 Variation 4 01:33
    Track
    26
    Title
    Variation 4
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  27. 27 Variation 5 01:23
    Track
    27
    Title
    Variation 5
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  28. 28 Variation 6 01:49
    Track
    28
    Title
    Variation 6
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  29. 29 Variation 7 01:11
    Track
    29
    Title
    Variation 7
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog
  30. 30 Variation 8 01:52
    Track
    30
    Title
    Variation 8
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Csaba Szabó
    Performer
    József Balog