Zoltán Kocsis Conducts Schönberg, Varèse (2005)

Zoltán Kocsis is best known outside of Hungary as a pianist, and is widely regarded as one of the best interpreters of Debussy and Bartók. Since 1997, however, Kocsis has served as music director of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and has led it through a period of renewal and growth that many American orchestras would be happy to emulate. This Budapest Music Centre disc, Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Zoltán Kocsis: Schönberg, Varèse, is put together from live concerts given by the ... Read More

Zoltán Kocsis is best known outside of Hungary as a pianist, and is widely regarded as one of the best interpreters of Debussy and Bartók. Since 1997, however, Kocsis has served as music director of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and has led it through a period of renewal and growth that many American orchestras would be happy to emulate. This Budapest Music Centre disc, Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Zoltán Kocsis: Schönberg, Varèse, is put together from live concerts given by the orchestra under Kocsis' direction in 2001 and 2002.Both recordings are quite dark and muddy, and these are anything but pristine performances of the works represented, namely Arnold Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5, and Edgard Varèse's Amériques. Neither work was commonly heard in Hungary before the collapse of the Eastern-European communist bloc. If Varèse and Schoenberg are sacred to one's tastes, then this disc will not be for you, as the orchestral performances lack focus... Read Less

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