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Ferenc Snétberger - Hallgató (Live) (2021) [Hi-Res]

Ferenc Snétberger - Hallgató (Live) (2021) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Ferenc Snétberger

  • Title: Hallgató (Live)
  • Year Of Release: 2021
  • Label: ECM New Series
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
  • Total Time: 62:50
  • Total Size: 242 MB / 1.01 GB
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Tracklist:

1. Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra “In Memory of My People” : 1. Hallgató. Adagio - Allegro (Arr. for Guitar and String Quintet) (Live) (6:30)
2. Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra “In Memory of My People” : 2. Emlékek. Adagio (Arr. for Guitar and String Quintet) (Live) (6:30)
3. Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra “In Memory of My People” : 3. Tánc. Allegro furioso (Arr. for Guitar and String Quintet) (Live) (3:50)
4. String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110 : 1. Largo (Live) (4:11)
5. String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110 : 2. Allegro molto (Live) (2:51)
6. String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110 : 3. Allegretto (Live) (4:19)
7. String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110 : 4. Largo (Live) (4:32)
8. String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110 : 5. Largo (Live) (3:32)
9. I saw my Lady weep (Arr. for Guitar and String Quartet) (Live) (3:01)
10. Flow, my tears (Arr. for Cello and Guitar) (Live) (3:37)
11. Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (Live) (6:53)
12. Your Smile (Live) (2:53)
13. Rhapsody I for Guitar and Orchestra (Arr. for Guitar and String Quintet) (Live) (10:19)

On Hallgató, recorded live in the Grand Hall of Budapest’s Liszt Academy, Ferenc Snétberger and the Keller Quartett, respectively Hungary’s outstanding acoustic guitarist and its foremost string quartet, are heard together and separately in a moving and organically unfolding programme, with compositions by Snétberger, Shostakovich, John Dowland and Samuel Barber. Snétberger’s “In Memory of My People”, dedicated to his Sinti and Roma forebears, is a powerful and spirited piece, both threnody and celebration. Shostakovich’s 8th String Quartet, also dedicated to the victims of war, is played with great sensitivity and feeling by the Keller musicians. Subtle arrangements of John Dowland find Snétberger with the Keller Quartett for “I saw my lady weep” and in duo with cellist László Fenyö for “Flow, my tears”. The Keller Quartett address the yearning quality of Barber’s Molto adagio from his String Quartet op.11, and Snétberger offers a glimmer of hope with the tender solo guitar piece “Your Smile”. The concluding “Rhapsody 1”,with Snetberger and string quintet, is a new arrangement of a radiant theme originally written by Ferenc for a film project about the Roma. In total: a very involving and gripping album. Recorded in December 2018, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Ferenc Snétberger, Guitar
András Keller, Violin
Zsófia Környei, Violin
Gábor Homoki, Viola
László Fenyö, Violoncello


Year 2021 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl

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After making his ECM debut with the live recording In Concert and the jazzier follow-up Titok, guitarist Ferenc Snétberger returns to the label with Hallgató. Recorded live in December of 2018, it positions his strings amid those of the Keller Quartett and Gyula Lázár on double bass. The focus this time is on Snétberger as a composer, with three of his works standing as pillars of the program. His Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra (1994/95; arr. 2008) spans three substantial movements. Subtitled “In Memory of My People” and written for the 50th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, it balances precise notation with liberating cadenzas. “Hallgató” (a somewhat ambiguous word meaning “listener”) sets the scene with guitar alone before the quintet’s entrance, feeling out the landscape upon which we are about to walk with these fine musicians as our guides. “Emlékek” (memories) is our first waystation. Romantic yet devoid of excess, its nourishment fortifies us for the fancier footwork of “Tánc” (dance), in which the catharsis we have been seeking is realized, reminding us of what vibrancy feels like. Snétberger’s Rhapsody No. 1 for Guitar and Orchestra (2005; arr. 2008) is equally dynamic, if less angular. Like a figure sashaying between historical buildings, it navigates city streets with the nostalgia of experience on its shoulders. In the journey between them, we come across Your Smile for solo guitar, a timely song without words.

Works from other composers fill in the gaps with vital organs. Two songs from John Dowland (1563-1626) are the subject of astonishing arrangements by David Warin Solomons. “I saw my lady weep” and “Flow, my tears,” both from 1600, show the undying spirit of this music, the guitar adding a lute-like touch to the backdrop while strings weave their tapestry in its light. The latter tune, a duet for guitar and cello, speaks in an unmistakable nocturnal tongue. The program takes its deepest breaths in the String Quartet No. 8 in C minor of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Written in 1960 for victims of fascism and war, its opening and closing Largos are played crosswise, lending a graceful urgency to their differences. The second movement, by contrast, is delicate without pulling the punches of its traumatic reveals, while the Allegretto dazzles with its rougher qualities. The Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (1910-1981), taken from the String Quartet, op. 11, of 1936, is also included, rendered with a vocal quality I’ve rarely heard.

All told, this is a superb program from world-class artists. More than the performances, however, Snétberger’s writing scintillates. Such cinema requires no camera and only the heart as a projection screen. What begins with a yearning for peace opens into dance-like wonder, but only briefly before lowering the head in slumber to chase resolutions behind closed eyes. Because, in the end, memories may be nothing more than dreams we haven’t yet forgotten.
Tyran Grillo

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