Zádor described his style as “exactly between La Traviata and Lulu,” a delightful characterization, but there’s more to it than that. This second volume in Naxos’ ongoing series contains four excellent pieces, including a perky, peppy, Oboe Concerto just twelve minutes long that’s very well played by oboist László Hadady. Elegie and Dance is a diptych similar in character to the Aria and Allegro for Strings and Brass on the first volume in this series. The Elegie is absolutely gorgeous.
Zádor’s most popular piece, to the extent anything is, remains the Divertimento for Strings of 1954 (first sound clip). Here the clear inspiration is Bartók, if only because of the two composers’ shared Hungarian nationality, although Zádor’s melodic inspiration has a more international–though no less personal–flavor. Studies for Orchestra is a brilliant, serious, fascinating piece that runs the gamut from the occasional foray into atonality, to popular song (second sound clip). It’s wonderfully scored and consistently inventive: the seventh movement (of eight), a study in crescendo, is particularly clever.
As with the previous release in this series, the performances are excellent. The orchestra plays with enthusiasm; this is quality music that’s evidently a lot of fun to play. Mariusz Smolij conducts as though he’s been performing these pieces forever, and the engineering is top-notch. Another terrific disc from Naxos, whose evident intent to record everything in the universe really pays off here. --David Hurwitz, March 2013 ClassicsToday.com
As with the previous release in this series, the performances are excellent. The orchestra plays with enthusiasm; this is quality music that’s evidently a lot of fun to play. Mariusz Smolij conducts as though he’s been performing these pieces forever, and the engineering is top-notch. Another terrific disc from Naxos, whose evident intent to record everything in the universe really pays off here. --David Hurwitz, March 2013 ClassicsToday.com
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