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Track(s) taken from CDA66787

Ungarische Nationalmelodien, S243

composer
circa 1840

Leslie Howard (piano)
Recording details: April 1993
Produced by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: April 1994
Total duration: 4 minutes 53 seconds

Cover artwork: The Relief of the Siege of Vienna (detail) (Anonymous Austrian 17th century).
Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
 

Reviews

‘Yet another instalment in what is looming as the most ambitious and splendidly realized recording project of the century which cannot fail to delight and move. Enthusiastically recommended’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘An entertaining programme … providing the perfect vehicle for Leslie Howard's enthusiastic, colourful playing. His scholarship, as revealed in the liner notes, is remarkable, the recording first class’ (CDReview)
Those familiar with the Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody will have no difficulty in recognising the materials of the three Ungarische Nationalmelodien. In fact, much of the content of these three pieces had appeared already in the collection Magyar Dalok—the first part of Liszt’s first cycle of pieces based on Hungarian and gypsy music—in No 5 (to which Liszt added a short introduction and a coda), No 4 (which was reprinted unchanged) and the second part of No 11 (with a new Prélude and a coda, neither of which recurs in the Sixth Rhapsody).

from notes by Leslie Howard © 1994

Ceux qui connaissent bien la sixième Rhapsodie Hongroise n’auront pas de mal à reconnaître les éléments de base des trois Ungarische Nationalmelodien. En fait, une bonne partie de ces trois pièces était déjà parue dans le recueil Magyar Dalok—la première partie du premier cycle de pièces de Liszt fondées sur de la musique hongroise et tzigane—dans la No 5 (où Liszt a ajouté une brève introduction et une coda), la No 4 (réimprimée sans changement) et la deuxième partie de la No 11 (avec un nouveau Prélude et une coda qu’on ne retrouve pas dans la sixième Rhapsodie).

extrait des notes rédigées par Leslie Howard © 1994
Français: Jean-Luc Herin

Wem die sechste Ungarische Rhapsodie bekannt ist, wird keine Schwierigkeiten haben, Material der drei Ungarischen Nationalmelodien wiederzuerkennen. Tatsächlich erschien der Inhalt der drei Stücke weitgehend schon in der Sammlung Magyar Dalok—dem ersten Teil von Liszts Zyklus über ungarische und Zigeunermusik—in der Nr. 5 (die Liszt durch eine kurze Einführung und eine Koda ergänzte) und dem zweiten Teil von Nr. 11 (mit einem neuen Prélude und einer Koda, die beide in der sechsten Rhapsodie nicht wieder auftreten).

aus dem Begleittext von Leslie Howard © 1994
Deutsch: Meckie Hellary

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