This twelfth release in the Toccata Classics exploration of the music of Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) once again puts his chamber music with flute in the spotlight - here with an oboe chaser. As with previous albums in this series, the music highlights the characteristics that make Farkas' music so appealing: catchy tunes, transparent textures, buoyant rhythms, a fondness for Baroque forms and a taste for the folk-music of his native Hungary that marks him out as a true successor to BartÃ³k and KodÃ¡ly. The works in this recording are all reworkings - by Farkas or the two soloists here - of music first written for different forces and now taking on a new lease of life.

Tracklist:

Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century~I. Allegro moderato
Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century~II. Andante moderato
Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century~III. Allegro
Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century~IV. Allegro
Sonatina No. 1~I. Allegro con slancio
Sonatina No. 1~II. Largo
Sonatina No. 1~III. Presto
HÃ¡rom dal Kis Ferenc verseire~GyÃ³gyulÃ³ban for flute and piano
Sonatina No. 2~I. Allegro molto
Sonatina No. 2~II. Andante
Sonatina No. 2~III. Scherzando
Variazioni ungheresi
Meditazione for flute and piano
Alla danza ungherese
Aria e rondo all'ungherese for flute, oboe and piano
Three Burlesques for piano~No.
Allegro
Three Burlesques for piano~No.
Moderato, comodo
Three Burlesques for piano~No.
Allegro
Sonatina No. 3~I. Allegro non troppo
Sonatina No. 3~II. Andante moderato
Sonatina No. 3~III. Allegro
Epithalamium for oboe and organ
Cantiones optimae~I. BÃ¡torÃtÃ¡s a halÃ¡l ellen (Encouragement Against Death)
Arioso

UPC: 5060113444400
Label: Toccata
Release Date: 7.2.21
Format: CD

Farkas - Chamber Music 5 (CD)