Weiner / Csanyi Divertimentos 1 & 2 CD

Le? Weiner, a contemporary of Bart?k and Kody, was a profoundly important teacher in Budapest whose own music developed from a more traditional Romantic model - exemplified by the songful Romnc, Op. 29 - to an absorption of his native Hungarian folk music during the 1930s. The two Divertimentos for strings, vibrantly orchestrated sequences of dances, are among the best-known works of this period. The later Hungarian Nursery Rhymes and Folk Songs draw on some archaic and very popular native melodies. Volumes 1 and 2 can be heard on 8.573491 and 8.573847. This is Volume 3 of Val?ria Csnyi's ongoing series of the complete orchestral works by Weiner, with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra M?V. Vol. 1 includes the complete ballet C song or and T?nde (8.573491)in which Gramophone wrote that 'Csnyi shapes the score as if she really loves it', while Fanfare stated that 'this disc represents a charming discovery.'