Szabolcs Szilágyi & László Borbély – Parallel Lives – Works by Ernst von Dohnányi and Béla Bartók for flute and piano (2020/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Szabolcs Szilágyi & László Borbély – Parallel Lives – Works by Ernst von Dohnányi and Béla Bartók for flute and piano (2020/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:07 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hunnia Records

Listening to this album is a unique experience because the recording offers a selection of flute and piano pieces of two worldrenowned Hungarian composers: Béla Bartók (1881−1945) and Ernst von Dohnányi (1877−1960).

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Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – Bach, Complete Flute Sonatas, Volume I (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Szabolcs Szilagyi & Laszlo Borbely – Bach, Complete Flute Sonatas, Volume I (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:18 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hunnia Records

Bach’s flute sonatas are particularly sensitive, penetrating and soul-stirring music. If I had to use a single word to describe the four sonatas on this disc, surprisingly, I would have to use something far from idyllic. But why should Bach be so idyllic? His perfect structures (far beyond the ‘idyllic’ sound we imagine) remind us of the tragedy of our finitude and imperfection. And perfection never ‘anaesthetises’. With Bach, even the simplest-seeming music (or movement) explores the darkest spheres (along with the lightest, of course) that the human psyche can scarcely imagine. Just listen to the soaring, inducible phrases of the slow movement of the Sonata in C Major, over and over again. Like the stems of a plant spreading towards the light, tirelessly bursting forward, upwards, towards the surface, towards the light. If you listen to it once with deep attention, you will never forget the opening movement of the Sonata in E Minor, with its almost brutal phrasing, and then the fiery even movements that rush in as a counterpoint. But also the shifting moods of the A Major Sonata in the two outer movements, or the ‘heartbeats missing’ in the slow movement. In these Bach prophetically foreshadows the rebellious structures of modernity. And we haven’t even mentioned the second movement in the Sonata in E flat Major, which evokes the Passions…

So these pieces really do speak to us! They contain content that cannot be expressed in words, and beyond that, they ask the ultimate questions of our humanity, and they do it for us. Bach’s language hides for us the evidence of a time before the turmoil of Babel.

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Szabolcs Szilágyi, László Borbély – Prokofiev, Kodály, Liebermann & Kernis: Music For Flute And Piano (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Szabolcs Szilágyi, László Borbély – Prokofiev, Kodály, Liebermann & Kernis: Music For Flute And Piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 54:00 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hunnia Records

“Whether it is necessary, or even right, to follow conventions (the beaten track) when recording music, for example, or whether the performer can claim the right to show the listener the world he lives in, the world he knows best, with all its beauty and its countless oddities, even risks? Should he let the listener into his own territory, that is, into a strange and individual dimension that the audience may not have known existed until now? Nowadays, a carefully crafted recording gives the listener the illusion of a world believed to be flawless, a care that is fundamentally designed to cater to the perfectionism of the audience. A ‘different’ kind of care is therefore needed, one that can breathe life into even a recording.

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