Jenö Hubay's violin concertos -- there are four of them -- have been recorded twice before in the digital era, most conspicuously by Hagai Shaham for Hyperion and Vilmos Szabadi for Hungaraton. Considered the father of the Hungarian violin school, Hubay is best known for the folk-flavored Hejre Kato, Op. 32/4, which comes from his series of single pieces Scènes de la Csàrda. Before 2000, recordings of Hubay's violin concertos were quite rare; during the LP era only the Violin Concerto No. 3 in G minor, Op. 99, was issued in ...
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Jenö Hubay's violin concertos -- there are four of them -- have been recorded twice before in the digital era, most conspicuously by Hagai Shaham for Hyperion and Vilmos Szabadi for Hungaraton. Considered the father of the Hungarian violin school, Hubay is best known for the folk-flavored Hejre Kato, Op. 32/4, which comes from his series of single pieces Scènes de la Csàrda. Before 2000, recordings of Hubay's violin concertos were quite rare; during the LP era only the Violin Concerto No. 3 in G minor, Op. 99, was issued in the West, as recorded by Aaron Rosand for Vox in 1972. Needless to say, with this sort of famine turned into a near feast, one can be relatively selective in picking among the various offerings for these works. Naxos has brought out one of its big guns to bear on Hubay in recording English violin sensation Chloë Hanslip in its Jenö Hubay: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; can concertos No. 3 and No. 4 be far behind?There's a reason these concertos aren't done very often. Hubay's short...
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