Ferenc Kiss was born in Budapest in 1943. He studied first with his father, a concertmaster of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra, then at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest before finishing his studies with Sandor Vegh in Dusseldorf. His many appearances in concert venues all over the world as well as the variety of albums he has produced further attest to his successful career as an acclaimed soloist. On this release, he presents violin concertos by Fritz Leitermeyer and Dieter Acker. Fritz Leitermeyer’s Concerto for Violin and 21 Wind Instruments had its first performance in January 1964 with the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, Walter Weller, performing the solo part. The scoring is unusual, but the result is dazzling. Dieter Acker composed over 100 works during his life, including two solo concertos for violin, the first of which is included here. H. Leuchtmann wrote of Acker: “Never committed to a specific avant-garde style, Acker developed a very unique style of composition, which is conceived for clarity and comprehensibility, without getting into popular idioms… intensity touches and transmits itself directly.”
Vivaldi: Die Vier Jahreszeiten - Bach: Tripelkonzert in A Minor, BWV 1044 / Kiss, Redel
Bella Musica
CD
$20.99Feb 01, 2019
The present release pays tribute to Kurt Redel. Redel studied conducting and flute at the Breslau Conservatory. In 1938, when he was still quite young, he received a professorship for flute at the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1941 he joined the Bavarian State Orchestra in munich as solo flautist. From 1946 to 1956 he was professor of flute at the Hochschule fur Musik Detmold. In 1952 Redel founded the Kammerorchester Pro Arte Munchen in Munich, with which he gave numerous concerts worldwide and made award-winning recordings, especially with works by Bach, Telemann, Haydn, and Mozart. For twenty years he directed the Easter Festival of Lourdes in France, which he also founded. He received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque, the Prix Orphee of the Paris Opera, and the German Federal Merit Class Prize.
• Historic concert recordings of the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra from 1959 and 1961, led by its first and chief conductor for 24 years, Carl A. Bünte.
• Carl A. Bünte was a pupil of the mercurial Sergiu Celibidache and has led a distinguished international career.
• These two symphonies, both their composer's second, are considerably less volatile, but no less rousing fare, than there more famous later symphonies.
This Varied Piano Recital Release from the Bella Musica Label of Keyboard Works Stretching Across Three Centuries and Spotlighting Six Composers Highlights the Playing of the Doyen of German Pianists, Prof. Manfred Reuthe. A Berliner of Impeccable Degree, He Has Taught for Over 40 Years in Addition to Giving Concerts and Recitals All Over the World, Yet His Playing Remains Fresh and Vigorous Still. His Recital Programs Often Feature the Virtuosic Works of the 19th C. Romantic Piano Tradition, Including Those By the Austro-German Romantics and the French Impressionists.
This Bella Musica release of two historical recordings captured nearly a quarter-century apart features the conductor Carl August Bünte (b. 1925), a pupil of Sergiu Celibidache who for 24 years led the Berlin Symphony, the Kansai Philharmonic, one of the two major orchestras resident in Osaka, Japan, pianist Hiroko Miyamoto and the aforementioned Berlin Symphony in performances of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in c, op. 18 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 in d, op. 120. + Ms. Miyamoto is currently a professor at the Osaka University of Education.
