Anton Arensky - String Quartets; Piano Quintet (Lajtha Quartet; Ilona Prunyi)

Information

Composer: Anton Arensky

• (01) String Quartet No. 1 in G major, Op. 11
• (05) String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35
• (16) Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 51

Ilona Prunyi, piano
Lajtha Quartet
Leila Rásonyi, violin
György Albert, violin
László Kolozsvári, viola
László Fenyö, cello

Date: 1995
Label: Marco Polo
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.223811

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Anton Arensky (12 July [O.S. 30 June] 1861 – 25 February [O.S. 12 February] 1906) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music. Arensky was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students there were Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Gretchaninov. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the greatest influence on Arensky's musical compositions. Arensky are best known for his chamber music, including two string quartets, two piano trios, and a piano quintet. Despite a long-term neglect of his music, in recent years a large number of his compositions have been recorded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Arensky

***

Ilona Prunyi (born on 1 May 1941 in Debrecen, Hungary) is a Hungarian pianist. She attended the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, where her teachers were József Gát and András Mihály. In 1988 she began recording for Naxos and its sister label Marco Polo, appeared on more than 25 recordings. Prunyi also began recording for the Hungaroton label in 1990s. She has regularly appeared as collaborator in duo works with Zoltán Kocsis and Jeno Jandó, and in chamber works with the New Budapest Quartet and Tátrai Quartet. In recent years, she has often played the works of contemporary Hungarian composers.
http://www.naxos.com/person/Ilona_Prunyi/616.htm

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ilona-prunyi-mn0001287793/

***

The Lajtha Quartet was formed in the spring of 1991. Lead violinist Leila Rásonyi, a special golden medal winner at the "Jacques Thibaud" Violin Competition, has been a professor at the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy since 1989 and plays a Carlo Giuseppe Testore violin dated from 1715. Rásonyi's student at the Academy, Ildikó Oltai plays the second violin of the quartet. Other members are violist László Kolozsvári, the lead violist of the Budapest Symphonic Orchestra, and cellist Péter Szabó, solo cellist of the Concentus Hungaricus Chamber Orchestra and a member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

FLAC, tracks

Links in comment

Enjoy!