CLASSICAL

摘要

Having recorded the concertos and complete piano solo works, Zoltan Kocsis continues to be the torch-bearer for Bartok's music. And with his native orchestra everything sounds thoroughly idiomatic (whereas, for instance, fellow-Hungarian Solti's Bartok had a personalised gloss) and full of gusto. The Hungaroton production offers clear separation and a wide soundstage, though this is accompanied by slight stridency in the Divertimento finale. The hapless drunkard in the fourth of the transcribed Hungarian Sketches should make listeners smile.