Ferenc Farkas - Chamber Music, Vol. 3 (András Adorján; etc.)

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Composer: Ferenc Farkas

• Sonatina for flute and piano
• Serenade for flute and two violins
• Tibicinium
• 3 Bagatelle
• 33 Battute per Angelica for flute
• Die Lieder des Wanderers
• Meditazione
• 6 Hungarian Folk Songs
• Rosarium
• 3 Dance Paraphrases
• Egloga & Burattinata
• Trigón

András Adorján, flute

Tünde Szabóki, soprano

Gyula Stuller, violin

Péter Bársony, viola

Miklós Perényi, cello

Balázs Szokolay, piano

Date: 2019

Label: Toccata

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Ferenc Farkas (15 December 1905 – 10 October 2000) was a Hungarian composer and music educator. Born in Nagykanizsa, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest under Leó Weiner and Albert Siklós, and later refining his craft in Rome with Ottorino Respighi. His compositions, over 700 works, span all genres: opera, ballet, musicals and operettas, orchestral music, concertos, chamber music and sacred music. As an educator, Farkas was one the most influential in the second half of the century. Among his students were György Kurtág, György Ligeti, László Kalmár and Miklós Kocsár.

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András Adorján was born in 1944 in Budapest, grew up in Copenhagen and lives since 1974 in Munich. After obtaining a dentist diploma in Copenhagen in 1968 he completed his musical studies under Jean-Pierre Rampal and Aurèle Nicolet. As a laureate of international flute competitions and the principal flutist of important European symphony orchestras, he was appointed professor for flute at the Musikhochschule in Cologne in 1987, then taught at the Musikhochschule in Munich from 1996 to 2013. With more than 100 recorded albums, he is today one of the best known and most prominent flutists of his generation.

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