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Jenö Hubay: Scčnes da la Csárdá
Michael Jelden
Review by: Robert Zierolf
Let's say you're fond of nineteenth-century violin showpieces but
have run out of repertoire. Let's say also that you've heard all
the major violinists play these works, and furthermore are enthralled by Central
European nationalism. If one or more of these descriptions pertains, you should
add Michael Jelden's performance of Jenö Hubay's Scènes
de la Csárdá.
Hubay was a violin student of Joachim and taught Stefi Geyer, Bartok's
first (?) love, Joseph Szigeti, and other notable Hungarian violinists of the
early twentieth century. Nine of Hubay's Csárdás-inspired
compositions are arranged for violin and orchestra by Jelden and others, and
performed with aplomb by Jelden, likely due to his lengthy stint with a gypsy
orchestra.
This style of music was anachronistic by the date of Hubay's death in
1937, but they illustrate the nationalist-romantic tradition evident in Hungarian
music composed concurrently with Bartok's modern works.
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Robert
Zierolf is Professor of Music Theory and
History and Division head of Composition,
Musicology, and Theory at the College-Conservatory
of Music, University of Cincinnati. He is
also a freelance writer on classical music.
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