"The Hungarians: from Rózsa to Justus"
Centaur Records CRC 3660
Ensemble for These Times - E4TT (Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Anne Lerner-Wright, cello; Dale Tsang, piano)
Recorded: 22-24 August 2017
Recording Venue: Caroline H. Hume Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, California, USA
Release on April 6, 2018
Total Time: 45:08
Cover image: “Dombet n” (On a Hilltop, 1901) by Károly Ferenczy (1862–1917).
The CD consists of music by three Hungarian and one Hungarian-American composers who were exiled or killed in the Holocaust : multiple Oscar recipient
Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995),
Sándor Vándor (1901-1945),
Lajos Delej (1923-1945),
György Justus (1898-1945).
Featuring duos for cello and piano by Rozsa and Vandor - plus a Scherzo from a missing cello sonata attributed to
Delej - songs by Vandor and Justus for soprano and piano, and the premiere recording of a recently rediscovered set of piano miniatures by Delej.
The CD is the result of the group’s successful four-city concert tour in Hungary in 2014, which was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Budapest.
- Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) : Duo for Cello and Piano, Op. 8 19:38
- I. Allegro risoluto ed energico 6:29
- II. Tema con variazioni 13:09
- Sándor Vándor (1901-1945) : Air for Cello and Piano 5:22
- Sándor Vándor (1901-1945) : Songs for Soprano and Piano
- A fán a levelek 1:22
- Kovács 2:00
- Béke, borzalom 1:54
- Önarckep 2:14
- Lajos Delej (1923-1945) : Three Piano Miniatures 3:30
- No. 1 0:53
- No. 2 1:32
- No. 3 1:05
- Lajos Delej (1923-1945, attrib) : Scherzo for Piano 4:34
- György Justus (1898-1945) : Ügy néha este for Soprano and Piano 4:29