Tibor Harsányi

[musicplay]

Hallo everybody,
Desperately looking about any information of this composer's piano music.
Any info wellcome

[schnittkease]

Not sure what type of information you are looking for. The IMSLP page only has his Concertino for Piano and Strings, although judging by WorldCat it seems he has composed a good deal of piano music as well as a string quartet (I am not familiar with Harsányi). His works are in the public domain in Canada, so there is no reason why they cannot be uploaded to IMSLP at a later date.

[Spotted Horses]

It's lonely here on Harsányi's thread. I've stumbled on Giogio Koukl's series of recordings of Harsányi piano music, starting with volume 3. A Piano Sonata, suites for piano, miniatures. I've found the music attractive and engaging, hypnotic, bringing to mind associations with Martinu, Debussy, Scriabin.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It's lonely here on Harsányi's thread. I've stumbled on Giogio Koukl's series of recordings of Harsányi piano music, starting with volume 3. A Piano Sonata, suites for piano, miniatures. I've found the music attractive and engaging, hypnotic, bringing to mind associations with Martinu, Debussy, Scriabin.

I've found some uploads on youtube.  Any suggestions what to start with?  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harsanyi+koukl

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I've found some uploads on youtube.  Any suggestions what to start with?  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harsanyi+koukl

PD

I just listened to his piano sonata (from Vol. 3).  Quite enjoyed it!  I see why you mentioned Debussy. 

Wasn't familiar with the pianist's name before now:  Giorgio Koukl.  Quite an impressive background!  From Wiki:

"Giorgio Koukl (born 1953, Prague, Czech Republic) with family roots going back to Belarusian noble family of Grigori Minaiev, is a composer, pianist and musical journalist who lives in Lugano, a town located in Ticino, an Italian-speaking canton of southern Switzerland.

Through studies with Rudolf Firkušný, Nikita Magaloff, Stanislav Neuhaus and Carlo Vidusso, Koukl was first introduced to the piano music of Bohuslav Martinů. Koukl, considered now as one of the major world specialists of Parisian music of the twenties and of the "silver age" composers from Saint Petersburg, has recorded the only one existing complete set of solo piano music of Martinů, released between November 2006 and August 2009, a 5-CD set of complete vocal music of Martinů and a 2-CD set of Martinů's complete piano and orchestra for Naxos Records.[1] A series of eight CDs of the complete solo piano music of Alexander Tcherepnin added to his discography the valuations as best CD of the month (four times), best CD of the year (2 times), so as the recordings of Vítězslava Kaprálová, Paul Le Flem (French prize Diapason d'Or), Witold Lutoslawski (first world recordings), Arthur Lourié (first world recording), Tibor Harsanyi, (a project completed in January 2021, all first world recording), Carl Maria von Weber, Johannes Brahms, Alfons Szczerbiński and Alexandre Tansman. Recently he is working on the complete piano and two pianos work recording of Vittorio Rieti. "

Naxos of America has uploaded a lot of (if not all) of the piano music of Harsányi onto youtube. 

PD

[Spotted Horses]

I've found some uploads on youtube.  Any suggestions what to start with?  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harsanyi+koukl

PD

I've only listened to Volume 3, which seems to contain most of the longer-form pieces (rather than the suites of 1 or 2 minute movements). The Piano Sonata, the 3 Morceaux, the Impromptus, the Novelette probably made the best impression so far.

[Spotted Horses]

I just listened to his piano sonata (from Vol. 3).  Quite enjoyed it!  I see why you mentioned Debussy. 

Wasn't familiar with the pianist's name before now:  Giorgio Koukl.  Quite an impressive background!  From Wiki:

"Giorgio Koukl (born 1953, Prague, Czech Republic) with family roots going back to Belarusian noble family of Grigori Minaiev, is a composer, pianist and musical journalist who lives in Lugano, a town located in Ticino, an Italian-speaking canton of southern Switzerland.

I've expressed admiration for Koukl's recordings of Martinu solo piano music here, and I've dipped a toe in the Tcherepnin. He has carved out a niche for recording 20th century piano music of slightly obscure and genuinely obscure composers. It all seems brilliant, although there are no other recordings to compare with.