DC2100

Zoltán Kocsis

naive (France)

Beethoven  Sonata No.27 in E minor
Schubert  Sonata in E minor
Bartók  Sonate SZ 80
Bartók  For Children SZ 42 Vol.1 (excerpts)
Kurtág  Games (excerpts)
Liszt  Hungarian Rhapsody No.5 in E minor
Liszt  Les Jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este
Liszt  Sunt Lacrymae Rerum
Liszt  Csárdás Macabre

A remarkable recital by ZOLTÁN KOCSIS juxtaposes Liszt's nationalist and cryptic late styles (including the Fifth Hungarian Rhapsody and Csárdás macabre) with cannily selected miniatures by Bartók (For Children) and Kurtág (excerpts from Games, dedicated to Kocsis). The Pianist also bridges Beethoven's transitional, pre-late-period style (the E minor op. 90 Sonata) with early Schubert (two movements from his own Sonata in that same key, D566) into Bartók's thorny yet concise three-movement Sonata. János Darvas's camerawork occasionally lets us glimpse Kurtág's handwritten score from which Kocsis plays, and captures the pianist's calm, focused body language, prism-like sonority and elegantly proportioned phrasing.

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