Antal Doráti
Language available : englishMost of us only think of the great Antal Dorati as a conductor, but this prominent Hungarian came from a family of musicians and started the study of music at the age of five, learning the cello a couple of years later and composition lessons beginning at 12; this in spite of the fact that he had already written several works, including three operas with original libretti, all of which he considered to be immature effords. His first composition teacher was Leo Weiner (1885-1960) who had a profound effect on Dorati's musical taste and performing background. After a year with Weiner he became the pupil of Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) with whom he studied for the remainder of his school life. At the age of 18, Dorati began work at the Budapest Opera House, first as a rehearser, then as a conductor for opera and ballet productions and finally to his preeminent career on the symphonic concert stage. Concert work put a crimp in his composing for about 20 years but in the mid-'50s the creative impulse returned in energy sufficient to produce on major work each year for many years thereafter. The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra took five years of planning but was written during the summer of 1974 for Ilse Von Alpenheim, Dorati's wife, also from a very musical family. She world-premiered it -- a richly tonal work, centered around the key of D -- at Kennedy Center in the fall of 1975. Dorati makes no apology for being a tonalist, in fact (like many tonalists) he seems in his notes to be almost defensive about tonalism in what he perceives to be an era of atonalism or worse. The work is in a straightforward three-movement form. The first movement is in sonata form, featuring three groups of musical ideas subjected to various rearrangements, a recapitulation and cadenza finale. The most interesting slow movement uses a set of quiet variations on the central theme followed by a dramatic, jagged middle section with it's own development section, and a return to the quiet theme over muffled drums. The fast final movement is a complex rondo with intermittent recurrences of the main subject, a relazed "trio" section, a return of themes from all three movements in a suspended, introspective moment, finished off by a stormy "stretto" conclusion. The Concerto was recorded in April of 1976 (by Ilse Von Alpenheim) in the concert hall of Kennedy Center. It was released on a Vox/Turnabout LP in August of the same year. The album also presented Von Alpenheim's performance of Dorati's Variations on a Theme of Bartok, a difficult work based on the "Peasant Song" (No.15) of Bartok's Mikrokosmos. Dorati's Symphony No. 1 (1972) and No. 2 (1988) are available on a BIS CD, as are two works for choir and orchestra, Jesus oder Barabbas? and Pater Noster, works written the year before, and the year of his death.
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Most of us only think of the great Antal Dorati as a conductor, but this prominent Hungarian came from a family of musicians and started the study of music at the age of five, learning the cello a couple of years later and composition lessons beginning at 12; this in spite of the fact that he had already written several works, including three operas with original libretti, all of which he considered to be immature effords.
His first composition teacher was Leo Weiner (1885-1960) who had a profound effect on Dorati's musical taste and performing background. After a year with Weiner he became the pupil of Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) with whom he studied for the remainder of his school life.
At the age of 18, Dorati began work at the Budapest Opera House, first as a rehearser, then as a conductor for opera and ballet productions and finally to his preeminent career on the symphonic concert stage. Concert work put a crimp in his composing for about 20 years but in the mid-'50s the creative impulse returned in energy sufficient to produce on major work each year for many years thereafter.
The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra took five years of planning but was written during the summer of 1974 for Ilse Von Alpenheim, Dorati's wife, also from a very musical family. She world-premiered it -- a richly tonal work, centered around the key of D -- at Kennedy Center in the fall of 1975. Dorati makes no apology for being a tonalist, in fact (like many tonalists) he seems in his notes to be almost defensive about tonalism in what he perceives to be an era of atonalism or worse. The work is in a straightforward three-movement form. The first movement is in sonata form, featuring three groups of musical ideas subjected to various rearrangements, a recapitulation and cadenza finale. The most interesting slow movement uses a set of quiet variations on the central theme followed by a dramatic, jagged middle section with it's own development section, and a return to the quiet theme over muffled drums. The fast final movement is a complex rondo with intermittent recurrences of the main subject, a relazed "trio" section, a return of themes from all three movements in a suspended, introspective moment, finished off by a stormy "stretto" conclusion.
The Concerto was recorded in April of 1976 (by Ilse Von Alpenheim) in the concert hall of Kennedy Center. It was released on a Vox/Turnabout LP in August of the same year. The album also presented Von Alpenheim's performance of Dorati's Variations on a Theme of Bartok, a difficult work based on the "Peasant Song" (No.15) of Bartok's Mikrokosmos.
Dorati's Symphony No. 1 (1972) and No. 2 (1988) are available on a BIS CD, as are two works for choir and orchestra, Jesus oder Barabbas? and Pater Noster, works written the year before, and the year of his death.
© Philip Krumm /TiVo
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1991
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Haydn: The Complete Symphonies
Antal Doráti
Symfonieën - Released by Decca on 1 jan. 2009
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Hamlet, The Tempest...
Antal Doráti
Symfonische muziek - Released by Les Indispensables de Diapason on 23 dec. 2015
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Rimsky-Korsakov - Borodin : Coq d'Or, Polovtsian Dances...
Antal Doráti
Symfonische muziek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1987
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Dorati conducts Tchaikovsky (5 CDs)
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Mercury (Universal France) on 1 jan. 2004
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Stravinsky: Petrouchka; The Rite of Spring; 4 Etudes
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1993
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Tchaikovsky 1812 Festival Overture and Capriccio Italien and Beethoven Wellington's Victory
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Mangora Classical on 12 jan. 2017
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La grande famille des Strauss (Stereo Version)
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by BnF Collection on 1 jan. 1960
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Stravinsky: Symphony No. 1; Scherzo fantastique
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 aug. 1986
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Sibelius: Tone Poems, Songs
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 5 apr. 2004
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Dvorák: Czech Suite; Prague Waltzes; Polonaise; Polka; Nocturne
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jul. 1981
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Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird)
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 10 dec. 1983
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Walton: Facade; Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 9 apr. 2021
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 - Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition
Antal Doráti
Symfonische muziek - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 1 jun. 2017
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Prokofiev Scythian Suite, Suite from "The Love for three Oranges" and Symphony No. 5
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Mangora Classical on 16 dec. 2016
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Respighi the Birds, Brazilian Impressions, the Fountains of Rome and the Pines of Rome
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Mangora Classical on 1 mrt. 2017
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Brahms, Haydn, Enesco
Antal Doráti
Symfonische muziek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1993
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Antal Dorati - A Celebration
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2006
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Dorati - Haydn & Mozart On MLP
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 1 aug. 2020
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Gerhard: The Plague
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 2 nov. 1974
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Copland: Appalachian Spring / Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
Antal Doráti
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 apr. 1986
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