TDA25033 Cover 19/8/05 08:49 Page 1 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Composite TDA25033 Disc 17/8/05 11:04 Page 1 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K COPYI HORISED NG, PUBL AUT IC PE . UN RFO VED RM ER AN ES CE R , B RK R O OA W DC ED A D ST R IN O G C , E H R I E R H IN T G F O O R R E R E N N W T O A L D O N A F T R H E I C S U R D E O C R O P R E D H I N T G F P O R S O T H H I B G I I T R E L D L . A F OR 20 F 033 ULL 305 TRA 8097 CK D LAY - ETAILS SEE BOOKLET/IN Composite TDA25033 Booklet 24/8/05 08:06 Page 1 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K ANTHONY GOLDSTONE, piano Divine Art 25028 Dvo˘rák: Symphony no. 9 (“From the New World”) and Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967), arr. Anthony Goldstone (b.1944) Dances of Galánta (première recording) GEMA/Universal Edition (Ldn) Ltd [16.07] Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 3 (“Scottish”) in the composers’ own versions for piano duet Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), arr. 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Total playing time: [77.30] [2] [15] Composite TDA25033 Booklet 24/8/05 08:06 Page 2 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K GOLDSTONE & CLEMMOW (piano duo): THE MUSIC It is true that the Gypsies, like the Jews (whose fate they shared in World War II), take the music Divine Art 25020 It is thought that the Romany people, known in of their host countries and stamp their peculiar Tchaikovsky for Four Hands (Symphony No. 4, Romeo & English as Gypsies (Gipsies) - a mistaken identity on it. The elements often become Juliet, etc.) corruption of “Egyptians”, began to leave inextricably linked and the result can be confused “sheer pleasure” – BBC Music Magazine Rajasthan in India a millennium ago, and they with indigenous folk music, but there is no doubt have taken up residence in many places in Europe that our lives are very much enriched by Gypsy and the Middle East. The prejudice that has faced music and the influence it has exerted, as is them wherever they have settled is exemplified demonstrated by the contents of this recording. by the only three definitions given in Johnson’s Dictionary over two hundred years ago: “1. A Galánta is a market town, formerly in Hungary Divine Art 25024 vagabond who pretends to foretel futurity, but now in Slovakia, thirty miles east of the capital, Explorations – British 20th and 21st century music for one and commonly by palmestry, or physiognomy. 2. A Bratislava. For a century and a half it was famous two pianos reproachful name for a dark complexion. 3. A for its Gypsy musicians, evidence of whose (world première recordings of works by Holst, Leighton, name of slight reproach to a woman.” [sic] excellence and sophistication is provided by an Hedges and Stevenson) article in the Pressburger Zeitung of 13 March “outstanding performances” – International Piano But in the field of music the Gypsies shine and 1784, quoted in Gypsy Music by Bálint Sárosi: traditionally make a living. Their singing, playing “The Galánta Gypsies are outstanding musicians and dancing are typically passionate, sensual, in Hungary, and what is more they are also uninhibited, fiery, “exotic” and unbelievably enjoyable musical artists. They frequently take virtuosic. Purists accuse them of hijacking their places in aristocratic orchestras too, and authentic peasant music and polluting it with never play without the music[!]. Apart from dance Divine Art 25026 crowd-pleasing florid embellishments to elicit music they also perform concertos and Schubert: The Unauthorised Piano Duos (Trout Quintet, money; for example some ethnic Romanians symphonies.” Rosamunde Overture etc., in world première recordings for maintain that there is no real Gypsy music, only piano duo or duet) Romanian music with “arabesques”, and that the Soon they had tremendous success in Vienna, “an invaluable disc” – The Gramophone instruments they use are foreign to Romania. where there were reports of “people who had [14] [3] Composite TDA25033 Booklet 24/8/05 08:06 Page 3 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K gathered in amazement”. are filled out in the manner of a Liszt Hungarian Other fine recordings for your enjoyment Rhapsody and changes of register compensate The great Hungarian composer and educator for the loss of varied instrumental timbres. At the ANTHONY GOLDSTONE: Zoltán Kodály - his friend and fellow folk song close of the work I have added an upward collector Béla Bartók called his music “the most glissando encompassing the length of the Schubert Piano Masterworks, volume 1 Divine Art 21202 perfect embodiment of the Hungarian spirit” - keyboard and crossing the bare, hammered “a thoroughly rewarding listening experience” – International Piano spent what he called the seven most beautiful octaves of the original. My grateful thanks go to years of his childhood (from eight years old to Mme. Kodály and Universal Edition for permission Schubert Piano Masterworks, volume 2 Divine Art 21203 fifteen) in Galánta and in 1933 recalled those years to record this transcription. “mastery on the highest plane” – Fanfare (USA) in a resplendent through-composed suite of dances for orchestra, the Dances of Galánta, It was Count Johann Karl Esterházy von Galánta, Schubert Piano Masterworks, volume 3 Divine Art 21204 transcribed here for piano [1]. It is founded on a less exalted relation of the Esterházy Princes “a recital that cannot be praised too highly” – American Record Guide the verbunkos music played by Gypsy bands to based at Eisenstadt and nearby Esterháza whose accompany army enlistment ceremonies, the first patronage Joseph Haydn enjoyed for many years, Beethoven: Favourite Piano Music Divine Art 25029 “orchestral” music the young Kodály heard, and who engaged Franz Schubert as music tutor to “superb…very strongly recommended” – Musical Opinion he made use of some tunes from a collection his two daughters. Schubert fell in love with the published as long ago as c.1800. At 2’25” into younger of these, Karoline, and she inspired the recording a dignified theme, Andante much of his music. During his second visit, lasting maestoso, is heard, which becomes a sort of five months in 1824, to the count’s country estate anchor for the work. at Zseliz, about forty miles east of Galánta, he paused to listen to the singing of a Hungarian I made this arrangement in 1969, inspired by a kitchen maid, and on his return to Vienna he visit to Hungary. As I wrote to the composer’s composed the kaleidoscopic three-movement widow, Mme. Sarolta Kodály, at the time, it is not Divertissement à la hongroise for piano duet, a paraphrase but a translation from the terms of which made use of the melody he had heard. the virtuoso orchestra to those of the virtuoso (More about this work later in connection with piano, so that solo cadenzas for wind instruments Liszt.) [4] [13] Composite TDA25033 Booklet 24/8/05 08:06 Page 4 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K ANTHONY GOLDSTONE to join in the cheers”), very many broadcasts and In his early sixties Haydn wrote the best known began a long-running hero-worship of Schubert over fifty CDs (including the BBC issue of his by far of his many trios for violin, ’cello and piano, in his early twenties, when Schubert had been Described by The New York Times as “a man London Promenade Concert performance of with its final ebullient Rondo all’ ongarese or dead for only a few years and was steadily being whose nature was designed with pianos in mind”, Beethoven's fourth Piano Concerto).