Clarinetto All' Ungherese - Hommage á Sándor Veress / László Horváth clarinet / Savaria Symphony Orchestra / Conducted by Balázs Kocsár, János Petró / Hungaroton Classic Audio CD 1995 / HCD 31457

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MADE IN HUNGARY

HCD 31457

TOTAL TIME: 61:06

Sándor Veress (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃaːndor ˈvɛrɛʃ], 1 February 1907 – 4 March 1992) was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and died in Bern. The first half of his life was spent in Hungary; the second, from 1949 until his death, in Switzerland, of which he became a citizen in the last months of his life.

Veress studied and later taught at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Among his teachers were Zoltán Kodály, with whom he studied composition, and Béla Bartók, with whom he studied piano; as an assistant to László Lajtha he did field research on Hungarian, Transylvanian, and Moldovan folk music. Among the composers who studied under him are György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Heinz Holliger, Heinz Marti, Jürg Wyttenbach and Roland Moser. He wrote numerous chamber music pieces and symphonic works. He wrote one opera, Hangjegyek lázadása (1931).^[1] Veress was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1949 in Hungary (though as an émigré he was unable to collect this award) and the Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 1985; in Switzerland he received the Berne canton prize in 1976.

1    Ballad - For Clarinetand Orchestra Op. 8    11:29
2    I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo    8:08
3    II. Adagio    7:38
4    III. Allegro Motto    7:20
5    Capriccio All' Ongarese 9:29 
6    1. Intonazione Su Tutti Dodoci Toni    10:12
7    2. Danza Immaginaria    11:59

Clarinet – László Horváth*
Conductor – János Petró (tracks: 6, 7), Balázs Kocsár* (tracks: 1 to 5)Orchestra – Savaria Symphony Orchestra

Edited in occassion of 85th birthday of Sándor Veress