Hungarian Horizon: Valentina Tóth

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Toth's approach...is fresh and thoughtful. Her realization of the subtlest of Bartok's infinitely varied indications of touch and tempo are almost always persuasive...[her] perceptive interpretations... — International Record Review, September 2013 More…

Release Date: 13th May 2013
Catalogue No: CC72522
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 64 minutes

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Bartók: 14 Bagatelles, BB 50, Sz. 38

Work length25:32

$14.00

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Valentina Tóth

Molto sostenuto

Track length1:28

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$1.40

Allegro giocoso

Track length0:51

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Andante

Track length0:47

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Grave

Track length1:36

$1.00

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Vivo

Track length1:09

$1.00

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Lento

Track length1:26

$1.00

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Allegretto molto capriccioso

Track length2:11

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Andante sostenuto

Track length1:50

$1.00

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Allegretto grazioso

Track length1:51

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Allegro

Track length2:30

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Allegretto molto rubato

Track length1:45

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Rubato

Track length3:48

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‘Elle est morte’: Lento funebre

Track length2:09

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Valse ‘Ma mie qui danse’: Presto

Track length2:11

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Kodály: Seven Piano Pieces, Op. 11

Work length23:10

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Valentina Tóth

I. Lento

Track length1:36

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II. Székely Lament: Rubato, parlando

Track length2:01

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III. Il pleure dans mon cœur comme il pleut sur la ville’: Allegretto malinconico

Track length1:21

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IV. Epitaph (Sírfelirat): Rubato

Track length6:21

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V. Tranquillo

Track length1:57

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VI. Székely Tune: Poco rubato

Track length3:34

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VII. Rubato

Track length6:20

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Kodály: Dances of Marosszék

Work length12:12

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Valentina Tóth

Bartók: 3 Hungarian Folksongs from Csik, BB 45b, Sz. 35a

Work length3:31

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Valentina Tóth

I. Rubato

Track length1:29

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II. L’istesso tempo

Track length1:00

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III. Poco vivo

Track length1:02

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‘Hungarian Horizon’ is the debut CD by the highly-talented 18 year old pianist Valentina Tóth, and features the music by the two most influential Hungarian composer’s of the 20th century, Zoltan Kodaly and Bela Bartok. The works that she has chosen for the disc are Kodaly’s 7 pieces, opus 11 and Marosszek Dances, as well as Bartok’s 14 Bagatelles and 3 Hungarian Folk Songs from Csik.

In 2009 Valentina Tóth won first prize in the Princess Christina Piano Competition and her career has been on the up and up ever since. Although she has only recently finished secondary school and is studying at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, she has already been on the stage at Carnegie Hall. For her first album Valentina Tóth has decided to perform music by two of her favourite composers, Bartók and Kodály. The Bagatelles opus 6 were written in 1908 and are an important link in the work of Bartók, since they date from the time when Bartók started to seriously collect and document Hungarian folk music.

Tóth combines this and the same composer’s Three Folk Songs from Csík with the Seven Piano Pieces, Op. 11, and the Dances of Marosszék by Kodály. Kodály based the latter work on melodies and dances he had collected in the Marosszék region in Transsylvania, Romania. Originally written for piano, he later adapted it for orchestra.

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September 2013

Toth's approach...is fresh and thoughtful. Her realization of the subtlest of Bartok's infinitely varied indications of touch and tempo are almost always persuasive...[her] perceptive interpretations strike a perfect balance between rich, colouristic expression and structure.

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