Splinters: Mariann Marczi
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Composer or Director: Béla Bartók, Zoltán Jeney, Zoltán Kodály, Gyula Csapó, László Lajtha, György Kurtág, György Ligeti
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Odradek
Magazine Review Date: 02/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 68
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ODRCD307
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Splinters |
György Kurtág, Composer
György Kurtág, Composer Mariann Marczi, Piano |
Etudes, Book 2, Movement: Fém |
György Ligeti, Composer
György Ligeti, Composer Mariann Marczi, Piano |
Méditation sur un motif de Debussy |
Zoltán Kodály, Composer
Mariann Marczi, Piano Zoltán Kodály, Composer |
(7) Pieces |
Zoltán Kodály, Composer
Zoltán Kodály, Composer |
Contes, Movement: (...de l'automne et du champ...) |
László Lajtha, Composer
László Lajtha, Composer Mariann Marczi, Piano |
(3) Burlesques |
Béla Bartók, Composer
Béla Bartók, Composer Mariann Marczi, Piano |
Ricercare |
Zoltán Jeney, Composer
Zoltán Jeney, Composer |
Arthur Rimbaud in the Desert |
Zoltán Jeney, Composer
Mariann Marczi, Piano Zoltán Jeney, Composer |
The Ultimate Goal |
Gyula Csapó, Composer
Gyula Csapó, Composer |
Author: Jed Distler
Marczi brings such feathery lightness and rhythmic sparkle to Bartók’s Three Burlesques that it’s easy to forget her idiomatic phrasing and accentuation of the folk-based melodies. Of the two Zoltán Jeney works, I prefer the painfully sparse Arthur Rimbaud in the Desert (if you respond to John Cage’s late ‘number’ pieces, you’ll probably like this) over the grey, austere and frankly dull Ricercare. Although the disc’s final and longest piece, Gyula Csapó’s The Ultimate Goal, was written by a Morton Feldman pupil, I hear more of the austere, bare-bones discontinuity that often marks Christian Wolff’s piano music. The slightly distant, opaque sound suits both the music’s dynamic extremes and the detailed integrity of Marczi’s interpretations.
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