Credits:

Dessay, Natalie

Description:

Léo Veinel was a teacher in Budapest. As a professor of composition and chamber music at the Budapest University of Music, he trained many younger students. As a composer, perhaps because he was a perfectionist, he published only about 30 works during his lifetime and was mostly forgotten. Recently, however, his unique style, which combines German Romanticism and Hungarian folk elements, has become widely recognized. The symphonic poem "Toldi," inspired by the epic poem by the Hungarian writer Alany, was written for Fritz Reiner (a former pupil of Weinel's), who was conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the time of its composition, but Reiner never performed the piece. However, Weiner liked the work so much that he arranged it into various forms, including two suites, some of which are known today. The conductor of this album, Cherni, has researched the score of the suite, which has never been published, and performed it in this form, bringing it closer to the true form of the work. Naxos Japan