The music of Hungarian violinist and composer Jenö Hubay was almost unknown outside his home country just a few years ago, but several new releases have resuscitated his appealing music. The works of this Hungarian academic sound conservative as compared with those of Liszt even though he was active nearly a half century later, but they're never ...
Joachim Raff's seldom-performed songs receive a rare glimpse of sunlight in this Hungaroton release devoted mostly to Raff's Op. 98, subtitled "Sangesfrühling" (Spring of Song). As performed by mezzo soprano Andrea Meláth and pianist Emese Virág, Raff's songs reveal a fluid compositional style often reminiscent of his mentor Franz Liszt, though ...
This Naxos disc may or may not contain the greatest recording of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle ever made, but while it's playing, you'll wholeheartedly believe that it is. Naturally, in a one-act opera featuring only two singers, the quality of the soloists is critical, and in bass Gustáv Belácek and soprano Andrea Meláth, this recording has two ...
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