Credits:

Ferenc Snetberger/Keller Quartett

Description:

Hallgato" is an inspiring album by a remarkable Hungarian guitarist and quartet, both recorded live in the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest by Hungary's outstanding acoustic guitarist Ferenc Schnetberger and the Keller Quartet, a first-rate string quartet. The album was recorded live at the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. The program is a moving and well-organized development of pieces by Schneetberger, Shostakovich, John Dowland, and Samuel Barber, performed together or separately. Schnetberger's concerto In Memory of My People, dedicated to his Sinti Roma ancestors, is a powerful and lively work that expresses both mourning and celebration. Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8, also dedicated to the victims of war, is performed with deep sensitivity and feeling by the members of the Keller Quartet. Clever arrangements can be found in Schnetberger and the Keller Quartet's "Let My Beloved Cry" and the duo "Flow, My Tears" with cellist Laszlo Fenyo of the Keller Quartet.The Keller Quartet will explore the essence of Barber's Adagio for Strings, Op. 11, while Schneetberger expresses a faint hope in the delicate solo guitar piece "Your Smile." The final piece, Rhapsody No. 1 by Schneetberger and the Keller Quartet, is a new arrangement of a theme written by Ferencz for a Roma film. All in all a very contained and interesting album, recorded in December 2018, produced by Manfred Eicher. Universal Music/IMS

Tracklisting:

1.Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra "In Memory of My People"~Hallgato. Adagio - Allegro
2.Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra "In Memory of My People"~Emlekek
3.Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra "In Memory of My People"~Tanc
4.String Quartet No. 8 in C minor~Largo
5.String Quartet No. 8 in C minor~Allegro molto
6.String Quartet No. 8 in C minor~Allegretto
7.String Quartet No. 8 in C minor~Largo
8.String Quartet No. 8 in C minor~Largo
9.I saw my lady weep
10.Flow, my tears
11.Adagio for Strings
12.Your Smile
13.Rhapsody No. 1 for Guitar and Orchestra