For almost four decades, the Rhineland-Palatinate Philharmonic, a more than honorable orchestra, has built a discography of remarkable intelligence. The 1990s, with Leif Segerstam, saw his original contribution to the valuable Naxos series “Vive la France!” » (Caplet, Koechlin, Roger-Ducasse, Aubert, etc.). In the same way, this Rózsa section follows on from six CDs at Capriccio dedicated to Ernö Dohnanyi and Walter Braunfels, a so-called “degenerate” composer whose very beautiful opera Decca had published The birds. We have often spoken to you about Miklós Rózsa in our articles on the great masters of film music in Hollywood. Exiled, the author of the music of Ben-Hur, like his Austrian colleague Korngold, never stopped thinking about the classical form and his country. As evidenced by the work at the heart of this program, the Hungarian serenade (1932, reworked in 1946), colorful youthful score to which the Tripartite from 1972, a brilliant orchestral composition, a mixture of Bartók and Walton, the flagship of this very useful publication.
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