Katharina Ruckgaber, Tamas Egresi, Helmut Deutsch
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Release Date: 16 May 2025
Label: Audiomax
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 760623236124
Composer/Series: Reverie & Reality
Description
For generations, the noble family of the House of Szechenyi have played a decisive role in shaping Hungary's destiny. Katharina Ruckgaber and Tamas Egresi, accompanied by Helmut Deutsch, have compiled a representative selection of songs from the large repertoire of poems and compositions; an impressive testimony to the wide-ranging interests talents of one of Europe's most important aristocratic families.
The Szechenyi family were ardent music lovers and socialised in the highest circles of Europe. They cultivated cultural exchange and were also creatively active themselves. Franz Schubert composed two songs to poems by Lajos Szechenyi at the age of 20. He later dedicated Death and the Maiden to Lajos. showing his great appreciation for the family's commitments to arts and culture.
Franciska Szechenyi is regarded as Hungary's first woman composer. Katharina Ruckgaber performs her songs alternately with a fairy tale entitles The Message of the White Rider based on her life. Imre Ill Szechenyi was only 10 years old when he wrote his first opus 1. At 16 he fought in the First World War and at the age of 23 he died of diptheria just shortly after he was wed.
Another branch of the family were the von Tascheks from Bohemia. Franziska von Taschek's complete works are included here, saved by her granddaughter as she fled her home. All other works were lost as a result of the expulsion of German-speakers from Bohemia in 1945.
Tracklisting
Doris Hochscheid & Frans Van Ruth
Doris Hochscheid; Frans Van Ruth
Doris Hochscheid, Frans van Ruth
Katharina Ruckgaber, Tamas Egresi, Helmut Deutsch
Giocoso String Quartet, Ursula Thurmair, Jorg Gottschick, Paul Rivinius
Ginzel/Richter
Beethoven Quartett
Beethoven Quartett
Mark Milhofer|Mirco Palazzi|Marco Scolastra
Katharina Ruckgaber, Tamas Egresi, Helmut Deutsch
Magdalena Kozena, Mitsuko Uchida
Liparit Avetisyan; Constantine Orbelian; Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Joanna Klisowska|Katarzyna Neugebauer
Jean-Francois Borras; Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; Pierre Dumoussaud
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, Joseph Havlat
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
