Hindemith / Ittzes / Nagy - Great Book of Flute Sonatas 7 Music CD

The seventh, closing volume of Gergely Ittzes's flute sonata project places the middle of the twentieth century at it's center. The sonatas on the recordings in this series have so far been grouped according to their stylistic or national characteristics. The last album is somewhat broader in scope and offers a colorful account of the Western-European musical trends arising in the mid-20th century. Five works in different styles have been recorded from four countries of Western Europe. Briefly, it contains a late-romantic English, a post-impressionist and an expressionist French, an early modern Dutch, and a neo-classical German piece. Flutist Gergely Ittzes graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music in 1993 and won scholarships to further his studies at the European Mozart Academy in Prague and the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity in Canada. Ittzes has been teaching at the Szechenyi Istvan University in Gyor since 1996. He has won several prizes and awards (among them the Grand Prix of the Aleksander Tansman International Competition of Musical Personalities and the Liszt Prize in 2001) and is a founding member of UMZE Chamber Ensemble.