Harsanyi / Koukl - Complete Piano Music 2 - Music CD

The Hungarian-born composer TIBOR HARSNYI is now recognized as an important personality in 'L'cole de Paris'. He had a lifelong interest in modern dance, represented here by the Petite suite and Trois Pices de danse, and he also embraced jazz, which was part of the Parisian atmosphere of the inter-war period, and other influences, while keeping the Central European rhythms and tonalities of his Hungarian origins. The Trois Pices lyriques is a rare example of Harsnyi expressing torment during the turbulent years of the Second World War. GIORGIO KOUKL is a pianist/harpsichordist and composer. He studied at both the Conservatories of Zrich and Milan, where he took part in the masterclasses of Nikita Magaloff, Jacques Fvrier, and Stanislaus Neuhaus, and with Rudolf Firkun, friend and advocate of Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. It was through Firkun that Koukl first encountered Martinu's music, and is now considered one of the world's leading interpreters of Martinu's piano music. As a logical continuation of this work, Koukl has recorded the complete solo piano works of Paul Le Flem, Alexander Tcherepnin, Arthur Louri, Vtezslava Kaprlov, Witold Lutoslawski, and more recently, Alexandre Tansman and Tibor Harsnyi.