Discography

Program:

Chaya Czernowin: Ayre  — Hungarian premiere

Amos Elkana: Asara — world premiere

Yehuda Yannay: Janus -Chamber Symphony  — European premiere

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Ayal Adler: Hidden Light  — Hungarian premiere

Yair Klartag:   There is No Lack of Void  — Hungarian premiere

Dan Yuhas: Repercussions – Hungarian premiere

Conductor:

Gregory Vajda

Featuring:

János Benyus horn

The oldest of the composers of the works performed at the concert are represented by the 83-year-old Yehuda Yannay and 73-year-old Dan Yuhas, two pupils of Israel’s so-called second-generation composers, Ödön Pártos (1907-1977) and Alexander Uriah Boskovich (1907-1964). They are followed, in chronological order, by Chaya Czernowin (*1957), Amos Elkana (*1967), Ayal Adler (*1968) and Yair Klartag (*1985). Each composer, and consequently their music too, is linked by a thousand ties to the tradition and practice of contemporary music in the European avant-garde, yet each speaks in their own voice. Asara, Janus, Hidden Light, There is No Lack of Void: even this handful of titles shows how many different musical worlds and aesthetics feature in the concert. Compiled with the curatorial assistance of Dan Yuhas, the founder and director of the Israel Contemporary Players chamber ensemble and teacher of composition and counterpoint at Tel Aviv University, the programme’s kaleidoscopic variety aims to introduce the Hungarian audience to Israel’s new music and some of its most significant composers.

ARTISTS

Dóra Érsek – soprano (1-9)
Róbert Rezsnyák – baritone (1-9)
Tibor Szervét – narrator (10-14)

Hungarian Public Service Media MR Symphonic (1-9)
UMZE Ensemble (10-14)
conducted by Gergely Vajda

dèdalo Ensemble (15)
conducted by Vittorio Parisi

ABOUT THE ALBUM

Libretto of Barbie Blue: András Almási-Tóth
Text of Gulliver In Faremido was written after Frigyes Karinthy by David Hill and Gergely Vajda
Recorded at Studio 6 of the Hungarian Radio, 2009 (1-9);
French Institute and Auditorium at University of Pécs, 2010 (10-14);
Auditorium San Barnaba, Brescia, Italy, at the “… A Camillo Togni” International Composition Competition, 2008 (15)
Recording Producers: Gusztáv Bárány (1-9), Tibor Alpár (10-14) and Stefano Barzan at Studio Barzan (15)
Sound Engineers: Miklós Lukács (1-9), Béla Kuklis (10-14), Massimo Mariani and Sebastian Castro (15)
Mastered by Péter Erdélyi

Artwork & design > Bachman

Produced by László Gőz
Label manager: Tamás Bognár

In association with MTVA (Media Support and Asset Management Fund). Supported by the National Cultural Fund Of Hungary and Presscon Publishing Ltd.

ARTISTS

Elizabeth Laurence – recitation (Lady Sarashina)
Mike Svoboda – alto trombone with double-bell (“Alter Ego”)
Gérard Buquet – contrabass trombone with double-bell and sousaphone (“Shadow of Alter Ego” and “Moon”)
Blythe Holcomb, Nadia Hardman, David Hill (“Dream-voices”)
UMZE Chamber Ensemble, artistic director: Zoltán Rácz
Conductor: Gergely Vajda
Bösendorfer computer-piano programming by Vykintas Baltakas
Recorded by Rainer Lorenz, Karlsruhe

Piroska Molnár – voice (DCD Audio #8)

ABOUT THE ALBUM

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (1999)
Sound theatre (in English)
Scenes from 11th-century Japan
Text from diary of Lady Sarashina (born in 1008, Japan)
English translation: Ivan Morris, Penguin Classics Ed. 1975
Libretto: Mari Mezei
Recording and mixing supervised by Péter Eötvös
Recorded by Péter Dorozsmai and László Reményi at Tom-Tom Studio, Budapest, 2001-2008

Tale (1968)
Realized by Péter Eötvös and Werner Scholz at Electronic Music Studio, WDR Cologne (1968)

Mixed and mastered by Péter Dorozsmai
DVD authoring: József Farkas
Music publisher: Edition Ricordi Munich (As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams), Edition Feedback Cologne (Tale)

Portrait photo: Péter Korniss
Cover Art-Smart by GABMER

Produced by László Gőz
Executive producers: György Wallner, Tamás Bognár

The recording was sponsored by the National Cultural Fund of Hungary

Performers:
Gábor Csalog – piano (1-10)
György Déri – violoncelo (1-14)
Csaba Klenyán – clarinet (1-14)

UMZE Chamber Ensemble (11-14)

Conducted by László Tihanyi

Performers:
Zoltán Rácz – percussion, marimba
Gergely Ittzés – flaute
Miklós Perényi – violoncelo

UMZE Chamber Ensemble

Conducted by Péter Eötvös

Performers:
UMZE Chamber Ensemble
Amadinda Percussion Group

Conducted by Héja Domonkos

Performers:
UMZE Chamber Ensemble
Michael Svoboda – trombone
Klangforum Wien

Conducted by Péter Eötvös

Performers:
UMZE Ensemble (artistic director: Zoltán Rácz)

Soloists:
Natalia Zagorinskaya – soprano
Miklós Perényi – cello

UMZE Ensemble:
Gergely Ittzés – flute
Béla Horváth – oboe
Csaba Klenyán – clarinet
Lajos Rozmán – clarinet
Attila Jankó – bassoon
András Kovalcsik – horn
György Hornyák – horn
Levente Bakó – trumpet
Tamás Tarkó – trumpet
Lajos Kelemen – trombone
Péter Magyar – trombone
Attila Peresztegi – tuba
Anna Mérey – violin
Orsolya Winkler – violin
Péter Bársony – viola
Judit Szabó – cello
Péter Kubina – double bass
Ildikó Vékony – cimbalom
Ágnes Paták – harp
Ervin Nagy – piano
Dávid Pavlovits – mandolin
Boglárka Fábry – celesta
Aurél Holló – percussion
Zoltán Rácz – percussion
Zoltán Váczi – percussion
Károly Bojtos – percussion
Lajos Tóth – percussion

Conducted by Péter Eötvös