Composer and violinist Jenö Hubay was almost completely unknown outside his native Hungary in the 1990s, and the frequency with which his music is showing up on recordings and concert programs is testimony to the depth of the shift occurring in the repertoire of classical music as self-serving modernism gives way to a more catholic view of the musical world. Hubay lived and taught violin in Budapest until his death in 1937, but his compositions were concentrated in the last years of the nineteenth century. The Hungaroton ...
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Composer and violinist Jenö Hubay was almost completely unknown outside his native Hungary in the 1990s, and the frequency with which his music is showing up on recordings and concert programs is testimony to the depth of the shift occurring in the repertoire of classical music as self-serving modernism gives way to a more catholic view of the musical world. Hubay lived and taught violin in Budapest until his death in 1937, but his compositions were concentrated in the last years of the nineteenth century. The Hungaroton label has embarked on a complete recorded edition of his works, of which this is the tenth volume. As might have been expected of a touring violinist of his age, Hubay's music, primarily written for his own use, is divided between salon pieces and those of a more nationalist cast. The "Danse diabolique" from the Trois morceaux, Op. 10, a work that would have been known to many a concertgoer a century ago, is stronger in its introductory flourish than in the tune to which it resolves....
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