Ferenc Farkas: Orchestral Music, Vol. 6

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
July 4, 2025
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ferenc Farkas
    • PERFORMER
      MAV Symphony Orchestra
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 04, 2025
    • UPC
      5060113447227
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0722
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Vasar Debrecenben (Market in Debrecen)

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    2. II. Air de danse

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    3. III. Diakok tanca (Dance of Debrecen College Boys)

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    4. IV. Ciganyzene (Gypsy music at the fair)

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: István Trejer

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    5. V. Pas de deux

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    6. VI. Finale

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    7. I. Overture

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    8. II. Elegia

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    9. III. Scherzo sinfonico

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    10. IV. Finale

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    11. Preludio

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy

    12. Fuga

      Composer: Ferenc Farkas

      Ensemble: MAV Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy


Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) is often viewed as a gifted miniaturist, sifting through Baroque and popular Hungarian sources to produce glittering orchestral dances of infectious energy. That Farkas does indeed exist, as in the suite from the ballet The Sly Students, but this album also shows an entirely different side to his musical personality. His Preludio e Fuga finds him experimenting with dodecaphony - but he offered a caution: 'In the twelve-tone theme of the fugue, I did not use Schoenberg's orthodox model but a softer form, more euphoric, with a rounder and more attractive sonority - I am thinking of works by Luigi Dallapiccola or [...] Frank Martin'. His only symphony was a victim of Communist orthodoxy, so severely criticised at Party meetings that Farkas shelved the score. This first complete recording reveals a work that is both big-boned and big-hearted - one of the finest of all Hungarian symphonies.