Klarinet Archive - Posting 000383.txt from 2000/11

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kokai [was Finally some good news]
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 03:53:12 -0500

On 07 November 2000 21:31 Walter Grabner asked

><<Rezso Kokai: Quartettino for Clarinet and Strings>>

>I don't know this piece, can you give a little information??

The Hungarian composer (1906-62) studied in Budapest and
took a D. Mus (early piano music by Liszt) in Freiburg,
Germany (1933). He wrote a Rhapsody for clarinet and
popular orchestra and the Quartettino (cl vn va vc) in 1952

The Quartettino has four short movements (total dur:10 mins):
Sonatina/Allegretto moderato - Scherzino/Allegro assai
- Canzonetta/Andante Moderato, sempre molto moderato - Presto
and is in a nationalist 'gypsy' style with the clarinet as the soloist
throughout.
Published by Editio Musica Budapest (EMB) and recorded by
Walter Boeykens: Harmonia Mundi HMC 901419.

There is a good companion piece in a similar "Dances of Galanta" style,
full of vigour, rhetoric and rubato, a string trio entitled Serenade
(1932-50)
(16-17 mins). His Violin Concerto (1952-3) is his best known and
most widely acclaimed work.

Mike Bryant

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