3/11/2009 5:17:03 PM - Consonances on Pipedreams American Public Media Balint Karosi's "Consonances" on American Public Media
In American Public Media's PIPEDREAMS broadcast Balint is interviewed by host Michael Barone, discussing the featured work "Consonances" -- Balint's concerto for full orchestra and organ. The work was commissioned for performance in the Bela Bartok National Concert Hall, Budapest, Hungary. Karosi himself is the organist in this concert recording from June 2007.
Barone introduces the concerto as "a really remarkable, challenging and wonderful new score."* Later in the program he describes it as "a gripping and colorful new concerto."
Music played in the program
Part I
MICHEL CHAPUIS: Improvisations in Classic French and Modern Free Styles on the Tonus Peregrinus (Magnificat 9 th Tone) –Michel Chapuis (1993 Aubertin/Shirane-Cho Concert Hall, Yamanashi, Japan) Plenum Vox CD-009
Part II
JEAN SIBELIUS: Intrada, Op. 111, no. 1. CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Choral, from Organ Symphony No. 10, Op. 73 (Romaine).ROBERT SCHUMANN: Fugue on B-A-C-H, Op. 60, no. 1 –David Goode (2007 Grönlunds/Sibelius House, Lahti, Finland) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 8/1/07)
Part III
BALINT KAROSI: Consonances (Concerto for Organ and Orchestra) (2007) –Miskolc Symphony/Laszlo Kovacs, conductor; Balint Karosi (2006 Mühleisen/Bela Bartok National Concert Hall, Budapest, Hungary) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 6/28/07)
Filler – CHAPUIS (see above)
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