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| | | hungaroton (hungary) #hcd 31985 cd zoltán pongrácz / iván patachich “hungarian electroacoustic music” compact disc - zoltán pongrácz - mariphonia (8:14) 1972
- zoltán pongrácz - madrigal on petrarca’s sonnet no lxi (10:03) 1980
- zoltán pongrácz - contrastes polaires et successifs (7:17) 1987
- zoltán pongrácz - concertino - for cimbalom and electronics (11:03) 1989
- iván patachich - the ballad of jancsi barna (4:57) 1976
- iván patachich - metamorphoses for marimba (8:48) 1977
- iván patachich - fagotto digitale (11:31) 1988
- iván patachich - water music (9:58) 1988
| back in stock !!! now a perennial ...
long sought-after disc (one which i had assumed to be out-of-print !!!) containing electro-acoustic works from the 70s/80s by two of hungary’s leading musique concrčte composers; zoltán pongrácz & iván patachich...
the former should be familiar to you from his piece “phonothese” from the deutsche grammophon “avant-garde” series lp w/g.m. koenig & rainer riehn (also; the first piece here is also the first on the “hungarian electronic music” creel pone) - the latter has kept a decidely lower profile over the last 30 years (also featured on “hungarian electronic music” - albeit two different pieces than the ones on this disc !!)
obviously the four 70s pieces are the highlight, but, rather surprisingly, the 80s pieces don’t immediately devolve into digital/dx-7 wank, but keep the eastern-european / low-tech flame alive...
an excellent disc, highly recommended !!! |
| | hungaroton press release... |
| hcd 31985
hungarian electroacoustic music
(p) 2001 hungaroton classic ltd.
aad • összidő / total time: 72´53"
+ pongrácz, zoltán
mariphonia; madrigal on petrarca's sonnet no lxi; contrastes polaires et successifs; concertino for cimbalom and elctronics
+ patachich, iván
the ballad of jancsi barna; metamorphoses for marimba; fagotto digitale; water music
kertész, péter - narrator
bikfalvi, júlia - song and narration
chorus of the hungarian radio and television
herencsár, viktória - cimbalom
rácz, zoltán - marimba
vajda, józsef - bassoon
kósa, gábor - percussion
faragó, béla - synthesizer
the spread of electro-acoustic music in hungary was hindered for a long time by the lack of a studio of adequate technical standard. at first zoltán pongrácz has his own studio, then a few years later, in 1972, a modestly equipped workshop was established with the guidance of iván patachich. after two years' experimental work, the hungarian radio electro-acoustic music studio came into being in 1975 as part of the hungarian film producing company.
during the 1970s the circle of composers began to widen. many had completed music studies of this sort abroad. however, the originators of the genre in hungary were the two, already mentioned, composers: zoltán pongrácz and iván patachich. pongrácz has been the representative figure of hungarian electro-acoustic music, and patachich, though he worked in many genres, the bulk of his works were composed in the studio of hungarian radio, with traditional sounds augmented by electro-acoustic experimentation.
this collection spans these two artists' output from 1972 - 1989. |
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