Eugene Zádor, 2023

Track Listing

Zádor: Hungarian Scherzo 8:02

Zádor: Suite for Horn, Strings and Percussion 17:08

1. Prelude 2:48
2. Fantasy 2:42
3. March 3:05
4. Elegie 3:39
5. Rondo – Finale 4:54

Zádor: Lullaby for Horn and Piano 3:51
(arr. Mariusz Smolij for horn and string orchestra)

Chamber Concerto (Kammerkonzert) 16:26

1. Allegro molto 5:01
2. Andante 6:49
3. Sehr lebhaft 4:36

Suite for 8 Celli 16:54

1. Allegretto – Vivo 4:41
2. Molto tranquillo 4:35
3. Alla zingaresca 3:29
4. Moderato – Allegro 4:09

Celebration Music 8:52

Reviews

With this seventh volume of music – many works being given premiere recordings – Eugene Zádor is able to move out of the shadows of being ‘just’ Miklós Rozsa’s exclusive orchestrator in Hollywood and be assessed in his own right as a composer. As with many of his contemporaries fleeing the Nazis in Europe, Zádor’s career fell into two distinct phases; a traditional classical music path of composition/performing/teaching followed by a career having to find what work they could with the film industry offering the most lucrative solution. For many of the most famous names; Korngold, Waxman, Steiner and Rozsa there was an enduring creative tension between the film work that paid the bills and the desire to produce enduring concert-hall works. My sense is that Zádor was more sanguine about this relationship. A notable feature of his catalogue of work viewable here is just how productive he was during his American years and indeed right into old age. Of the six works on this disc five were written when the composer was in his seventies with the 1975 Hungarian Scherzo listed as his final orchestral work produced at the age of 81. Read more…
—Nick Barnard, MusicWeb International