"The composer has completely absorbed the idiom of peasant music, which has become his mother tongue." (Bartok on Kodaly)
Paul Hindmarsh introduces two works which reveal how different the "mother-tongues" of the composers had become by the mid-twenties. Kodaly The Battle and Defeat of Napoleon (Hary Janos )
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra , conductor Antal Dorati
Bartok Piano Concerto No 1
Stephen Kovacevich ,
LSO, conductor Colin Davis
Kodaly The Spinning Room (closing scene)
Eva Andor (soprano), Erzsebet
Komlossy (contralto), Gyorgy Melis (baritone), Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus, Budapest
Philharmonic, conductor Janos Ferencsik
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm