Géza Anda plays Solo Recitals, 1950-1955

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SWR
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April 27, 2010
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HAYDN SCHUMANN RAVEL LIEBER
    • PERFORMER
      Geza Anda
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 27, 2010
    • UPC
      4010276023265
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      94211
    • LABEL
      SWR
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro Moderato

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Performer: Géza Anda

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Performer: Géza Anda

    3. III. Finale: Presto

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Performer: Géza Anda

    4. Thema: Andante

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    5. Etude 1: Un poco più vivo

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    6. Etude 2: Espressivo

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    7. Etude 3: Vivace

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    8. Etude 4: Attacca

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    9. Etude 5: Scherzando

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    10. Etude 6: Agitato

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    11. Anhang Variation 4

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    12. Etude 7: Allegro molto

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    13. Etude 8: Sempre marcatissimo

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    14. Anhang Variation 5

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    15. Etude 9: Presto possibile

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    16. Etude 10: Sempre con energia

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    17. Etude 11: Con espressione

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    18. Etude 12: Finale: Allegro brillante

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    19. I. Modéré, tres franc

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Géza Anda

    20. II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Géza Anda

    21. III. Modéré

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Géza Anda

    22. IV. Assez anime

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Géza Anda

    23. V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Géza Anda

    24. VI. Vif

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Géza Anda

    25. VII. Moins vif

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Géza Anda

    26. VIII. Epilogue: Lent

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Géza Anda

    27. I. Vivace

      Composer: Rolf Liebermann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    28. II. Andante espressivo

      Composer: Rolf Liebermann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    29. III. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Rolf Liebermann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    30. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Rolf Liebermann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    31. Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    32. No. 1. Preambule

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    33. No. 2. Pierrot

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    34. No. 3. Arlequin

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    35. No. 4. Valse noble

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    36. No. 5. Eusebius

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    37. No. 6. Florestan

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    38. No. 7. Coquette

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    39. No. 8. Replique

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    40. No. 9. Papillons

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    41. No. 10. ASCH - SCHA (Lettres dansantes)

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    42. No. 11. Chiarina

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    43. No. 12. Chopin

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    44. No. 13. Estrella

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    45. No. 14. Reconnaissance

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    46. No. 15. Pantalon et Colombine

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    47. No. 16. Valse allemande

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    48. No. 17. Intermezzo: Paganini

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    49. No. 18. Aveu

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    50. No. 19. Promenade

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    51. No. 20. Pause

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    52. No. 21. Marche des Davidsbundler contre les Philistins

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Géza Anda

    53. Etude No. 13 in A-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1, "Harp Study"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    54. Etude No. 14 in F Minor, Op. 25, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    55. Etude No. 15 in F Major, Op. 25, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    56. Etude No. 16 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    57. Etude No. 17 in E Minor, Op. 25, No. 5

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    58. Etude No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 6

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    59. Etude No. 19 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    60. Etude No. 20 in D-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 8

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    61. Etude No. 21 in G-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9, "Butterfly's Wings"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    62. Etude No. 22 in B Minor, Op. 25, No. 10

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    63. Etude No. 23 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 11, "Winter Wind"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    64. Etude No. 24 in C Minor, Op. 25, No. 12

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Géza Anda

    65. 3 Intermezzos, Op. 117: No. 1 in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Géza Anda


REVIEW:

Hungarian virtuoso Géza Anda (1921-1976) opens a recital derived from radio broadcasts from SWR Stuttgart with Haydn’s perky F Major Sonata (17 April 1950), given a sparkling bravura rendition. Anda’s pearly play and deft touch make themselves felt in every concerted bar, and the runaway Presto finale might be a minor meteor. Schumann ever maintained Anda’s devotion, and he often programmed Symphonic Etudes, including the free interpolation of the five posthumous variations. The rendition included here (2 October 1951) includes two of the posthumous etudes, nos. 4 and 5, inserted after the sixth and eighth of the traditional studies. The first exploits sweeping arpeggios and glissandi techniques; the latter opens a jeweled music-box filled with nectar crystals. The serenity yields to the following Etude, a staccato study in syncopations that becomes quite frantic. Etude X, for want of a better term, has always struck me as “Brahmsian” for its double octaves. The agitato mysteries of Etude XI have rarely been so rarified in their mist contours, except perhaps from Cherkassky. The Etude XII finale, besides its obvious, heroic bravura, exudes the Innigkeit requisite...

The Ravel waltzes, in their sturdy percussion, date from 19 May 1951. Anda does not spare the fortissimos nor the pedal, moving to extremes in the first two waltzes, from aggression to erotic insinuation. The dance marked “Presque lent--dans un sentiment intime” has its perfect executor in Anda, which rivals the classically-chiseled entry by Robert Casadesus. Lithe and sensuously nimble, the last two waltzes--Moins vif et Epilogue--combine Vienna glitter and Schubert’s intimate suggestiveness in Ravel’s idiosyncratic kaleidoscopic panoply. Rolf Liebermann’s 1951 Sonata (2 October 1951) marks one of the few pieces Anda programmed that post-date World War II. His “modern” repertory ceased, for the most part, with the 1945 Third Concerto of Bartok. Liebermann (1910-1999) begins his nine-minute work with a toccata-style Vivace with periodic moments of pointillist staccati. The heart of the piece is the Andante espessivo, rather angular and reminiscent of Ravel, Gershwin, and modal Poulenc.

The second disc is devoted to the 1955 (May 21) recital at Ludwigsburg, a venue frequented by Anda’s esteemed colleague, Clara Haskil. Anda opens with the First Ballade of Chopin, a reading of balanced intensities, gothic and introspective at once. The music’s fierce Neapolitan harmonies and inner tumult manage to find a noble repose in the course of its poetic declamation mid-way, only to yield to the Dionysiac dramaturgy of its late pages with a passionate abandon that belies Anda’s repute for “objectivity.”

Anda recorded the Op. 25 set of Chopin Etudes for EMI, and he often featured the complete ensemble as a concert staple. He plays the A-flat Major for its serene beauty, and thus sets the tone for the remainder, to be played in the classic style of Backhaus, for poetry and strength of form.

The Brahms E-flat Major intermezzo, a simple, nostalgic folk song evocation, makes the perfect commentary to all of the “learned” counterpoint of this evening’s colossal recital at Ludwigsburg, where the spirit of colleague Clara Haskil must have lingered nigh.

-- Audiophile Edition