Franziska Pietsch, Maki Hayashida & Hila Karni – Hungarian Heights (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:46 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Odradek Records
Following the widespread critical success of their Odradek album Bartok: The Quiet Revolutionary, violist Franziska Pietsch – winner of an ICMA (International Classical Musical Award) in the Chamber Music category – and pianist Maki Hayashida, return with Hungarian Heights: music by Dohnanyi, Kodaly and Liszt, for which they are joined by cellist Hila Karni.
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Franziska Pietsch & Maki Hayashida – Bartók: The Quiet Revolutionary (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:02 minutes | 1021 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Odradek Records
Violinist Franziska Pietsch and pianist Maki Hayashida offer deeply personal readings of Bela Bartok’s magnificent Sonatas for violin and piano, and his irresistible ‘Romanian Folk Dances’.
Franziska Pietsch, recent winner of an ICMA (International Classical Musical Award) in the Chamber Music category, has long been drawn to Bartok’s music, fascinated by its elusive nature a sometimes austere surface concealing explosive forces within. She describes his music as “full of passion, energy, power, a furious rhythm, sublime melodies, ardour, forlornness and melancholy”, and brings each of these attributes to the fore in different sections of the two Violin Sonatas.
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