Klára Takács: Songs by Liszt, Verdi, Strauss & Schumann

by Klára Takács (mezzo-soprano); Hungarian State Orchestra, András Kórodi (conductor); Sándor Falvai (piano); Jenő Jandó (piano)

This selection offers an insight into the Hungarian musical world of the 1980s. Klára Takács (1945–2017), who was then the leading mezzo-soprano of her time, had been performing since the beginning of her career in three genres, each of which required a very different artistic approach. For her opera meant the variety of dramatic conflicts, Lieder, the characteristic feature of which is depth of concentration, opened up the innermost layers of the soul, and oratorio was “a dialogue with God”.

(Sung in German and Italian)

℗ 1980, 1985, 1986 Hungaroton

HCD 32769

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