MASTERPIECES - DIFFERENTLY - Dohnányi / Popper / Liszt - Park Sang Hyeok, István Dénes E/5.
A conducting composer or a composing conductor? Seems to be a fair question about István Dénes, who is a renown opera-conductor in Hungary and abroad as well, while he is also a productive composer, with vivid fantasy and remarkable humor. As a token of his respect for our orchestra, he composed a paraphrase of the MÁV's signal for the railway station and, in order to expand the orchestras' repertoire, he transcribed Franz Liszt's masterpiece, the Dante Sonata, for orchestra. more
