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Kodaly: Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8; Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 (Jerry Grossman, cello; Daniel Phillips, violin; Nonesuch). Except for the Hary Janos Suite and perhaps the choral Psalmus Hungaricus, Zoltan Kodaly's music is not much heard today, only 16 years after his death. It is his contemporary, friend and colleague, Bela Bartok, who seems to have won the Hungarian seat in the 20th century pantheon of great composers. But Kodaly's music, while less frankly adventurous than Bartok's, is just as redolent of the Magyar spirit, and these two works display it well...
...Lassus' Psalmus Poenitentialis sounded like the least well-prepared work on the program. Instead of paying meticulous attention to the clarity and independence of each part, conductor Elliot Forbes treated the audience to gorgeous but amorphous Brahmsian sonorities...
...last week's Vienna concert, the Philharmonia opened with a somewhat lackluster "Egmont" Overture, then launched with enthusiasm and devotion into Zoltan Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus, whose words, based on the 55th Psalm, were written during the 16th century Turkish rule in Hungary ("O hear the voice of my complaining/Terrors of death are fallen upon...
...Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus (Gabor Carelli, tenor; North Texas State College Chorus, Dallas Children's Choir, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Composed in 1923 to mark the soth anniversary of the union of the twin cities of Buda and Pest, this is probably 67-year-old Zoltan Kodaly's best work; in it is some of the most brilliant choral writing of the century. Performance and recording: excellent...
...once a year. The first year, only four little fiddlers (one of whom made a puddle on the stage) could make the grade. Last year he had a stage full: 30 violinists, 17 cellists and one violist. He also trained a schoolkids' chorus to sing Kodaly's Psalmus Hungarians-in Hungarian...