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Georg Druschetzky's concertos and concert pieces for multiple tympani and orchestra may hold interest for scholars as documents of the truly unusual in Classical music, and some practical value for tympanists in search of obscure repertoire; but the general listener will be mildly amused for about five minutes, and then grow impatient with these mediocre showpieces. The Concerto for six tympani and orchestra opens in C major -- as do all these works, due to fixed tuning -- and seems pleasant enough, if a little silly, like a joke by Mozart or Haydn. But as the piece progresses, the limited pitches, the restricted availability of keys, and the excessive use of tonic and dominant figures in the thundering solo part become extremely tiresome. The Concerto for oboe, eight tympani and orchestra offers more timbral variety and a fully diatonic tuning of the tympani, but the work's banality is pervasive, and the novelty has by this point worn off. Only the most stalwart listener will delve further into the Partita, the Gran Sinfonia, or Ungaria, which perhaps show Druschetzky to have been an ingenious promoter, but third-rate as a composer. One trusts that tympanist Zoltán Rácz and the Erdody Chamber Orchestra, under György Vashegyi, enjoyed themselves in performing these peculiar pieces, but their evident pleasure is insufficient enough to alleviate the boredom these works induce. Hungaroton's sound quality is fine.
© TiVo
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Concerto for 6 Timpani (Georg Druschetzky)
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Concerto for Oboe and 8 Timpani (Georg Druschetzky)
Lajos Lencses, Artist - Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Lajos Lencses, Artist - Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Lajos Lencses, Artist - Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Partita in C Major for 6 Timpani and Orchestra (Georg Druschetzky)
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Gran Sinfonia in C Major (Georg Druschetzky)
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Ungaria (Georg Druschetzky)
Georg Druschetzky, Composer - György Vashegyi, Conductor - Zoltan Racz, Artist, MainArtist - Erdody Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra - Zsolt Szefcsik, Artist
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
Album review
Georg Druschetzky's concertos and concert pieces for multiple tympani and orchestra may hold interest for scholars as documents of the truly unusual in Classical music, and some practical value for tympanists in search of obscure repertoire; but the general listener will be mildly amused for about five minutes, and then grow impatient with these mediocre showpieces. The Concerto for six tympani and orchestra opens in C major -- as do all these works, due to fixed tuning -- and seems pleasant enough, if a little silly, like a joke by Mozart or Haydn. But as the piece progresses, the limited pitches, the restricted availability of keys, and the excessive use of tonic and dominant figures in the thundering solo part become extremely tiresome. The Concerto for oboe, eight tympani and orchestra offers more timbral variety and a fully diatonic tuning of the tympani, but the work's banality is pervasive, and the novelty has by this point worn off. Only the most stalwart listener will delve further into the Partita, the Gran Sinfonia, or Ungaria, which perhaps show Druschetzky to have been an ingenious promoter, but third-rate as a composer. One trusts that tympanist Zoltán Rácz and the Erdody Chamber Orchestra, under György Vashegyi, enjoyed themselves in performing these peculiar pieces, but their evident pleasure is insufficient enough to alleviate the boredom these works induce. Hungaroton's sound quality is fine.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:18:49
- Main artists: Zoltan Racz Erdody Chamber Orchestra Lajos Lencsés Zsolt Szefcsik György Vashegyi
- Composer: Georg Druschetzky
- Label: Hungaroton
- Genre: Classical Concertos
(C) 2014 Hungaroton (P) 2014 Hungaroton
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