Hungarian Songs / Károlyi, Würtz

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
July 28, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Gyorgy Ligeti
    • PERFORMER
      Katalin Karolyi, Klara Wurtz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 28, 2023
    • UPC
      5028421969268
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96926
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Tancol a hold

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    2. No. 2. Gyumolcsfurt

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    3. No. 3. Kalmar jott nagy madarakkal

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    4. No. 1. Csalfa sugar

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    5. No. 2. A legszebb virag

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    6. No. 3. A csendes dalokbol

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    7. No. 4. A bujdoso

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    8. No. 5. Az ordog elvitte a financot

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    9. Vol. 5: No. 25. Magos kosziklanak (Love's Anodyne)

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    10. Vol. 5: No. 27. Ifjusag mint solyommadar (A little sad song)

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    11. Vol. 1: No. 2. Az hol en elmegyek (I rove)

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    12. Vol. 5: No. 29. Csillagom reveszem (The ferryman)

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    13. Magyar Nepdalok (Hungarian Folksongs): No. 12. Magos a rutafa (Green rue)

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    14. No. 1. Fekete fod (Black is the earth)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    15. No. 2. Istenem, Istenem (My God, my God)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    16. No. 3. Asszonyok, asszonyok (Wives, let me be one of your company)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    17. No. 4. Annyi banat (So much sorrow)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    18. No. 5. Ha kimegyek (If I climb)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    19. No. 6. Toltik a nagyerdo utjat (They are mending the great forest highway)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    20. No. 7. Eddig valo dolgom (Up to now my work)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    21. No. 8. Olvad a ho (The snow is melting)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    22. No. 1. Elindultam szep hazambul (I left my fair homeland)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    23. No. 2. Által mennék én a Tiszán ladikon

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    24. No. 3. A gyulai kert alatt

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    25. No. 4. Nem messze van ide … (Not far from here is little Margitta)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    26. No. 5. Vegigmentem a tarkanyi (I walked to the end … )

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    27. No. 1. Tiszan innen, Tiszan tul (On this side of the Tisza, on that side of the Tisza)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    28. No. 2. Erdok, volgyek, szuk ligetek (Woods valleys, narrow parks)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    29. No. 8. Sej, mikor engem katonanak visznek (Alas, when they take me to be a soldier)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    30. No. 10. Kis kece lanyom (My dear daughter)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    31. No. 1. Pri hrabaní (Szénagyüjtéskor, Haymaking)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    32. No. 2. Pri neveste (A menyasszonynál, At the bride's)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    33. No. 3. Svatba (Lakodalom, Wedding)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    34. No. 4. Ukoliebavka (Bölcsődal, Lullaby)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz

    35. No. 5. Tanec mládencov (Legénytánc, Lads' dance)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Performer: Katalin Károlyi, Klára Würtz


Only one year and a half after their first meeting in Budapest in early 1905, Bartók and Kodály were eager to jointly publish their first settings of Hungarian folk songs. In their foreword to the volume Magyar népdalok (Hungarian Folk Songs), they declare their goal thus: “ … to get the general public to know and appreciate folk songs.” The Ten Hungarian Folk Songs from 1906 (BB 43), Bartók’s earliest and still quite rudimentary but imaginative and very sensitive folk-song arrangements, were collected by the 25-year-old himself mostly in three regions of the Hungarian countryside: near Budapest, Békéscsaba, and the lake Balaton. This set, from which we can listen to four arrangements on this CD, had never been offered by Bartók to be published. Having collected peasant music from regions of the Hungarian Kingdom where significant Romanian and Slovak minorities lived, Bartók immediately became intrigued by the peculiarities – and from his point of view, musical freshness – of both nations’ songs and instrumental dances.

His reverence for the folklore of the Slovaks can be felt in the five arrangements of the Falún (Village Scenes) series (BB 87a), composed in 1924 and based on folk songs from the Zólyom (in Slovakian: Zvolenská) region of what was then Upper Hungary (now Slovakia) he collected in 1917 from village women. These arrangements of bursting energy, enchantingly deep emotionality and transcendence also bear testimony to Bartók’s discovery of Stravinsky’s music which he was galvanized by in the early 1920s. The texts are sung by Katalin Károlyi in Hungarian here, not in their original Slovak-language version.

Before leaving Hungary for Austria and West Germany after the fall of the 1956 revolution, György Ligeti (1923–2006) not only collected folk music in his native Transylvania but also worked for the Institute for Folklore in Bucharest and Kolozsvár in the late 1940s. Thus, in his twenties and thirties, he followed the footsteps of his idols, Bartók and Kodály. In the last months of 1952, Ligeti set to music five poems by János Arany, a leading figure of 19th-century Hungarian poetry. Both text and music are deeply rooted in Hungarian folk songs; indeed, most of Ligeti’s melodies, or parts thereof, could be actual folk songs, just like Arany’s texts from almost a century earlier could be folk-song texts. The last piece is an exception, being a daring musical setting of Arany’s 1868 Hungarian translation of Robert Burns’ humorous song The Deil’s Awa Wi’ Th’ Exciseman (1792).