Jenő Jandó News
(1952–2023) classical pianist
- piano
- classical music
- Hungary
- classical pianist, piano teacher, university teacher, pianist
streaming
Last update
2024-03-26
Refresh
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-07-04 13:39:57
The prolific Hungarian pianist and teacher Jenő Jandó... The post Death of Naxos superpianist appeared first on Slippedisc.
This source is no longer available. The following article is not online anymore.
Clairvoyant Classical Music
2019-10-18 10:44:21
Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 3 (Jandó)
This source is no longer available. The following article is not online anymore.
Faces of classical music
2019-09-20 05:30:00
The best new classical albums: September 2019
[…] survived his anger. At times the brooding Adagio suggests Bluebeard's shadow before giving way to the temperamental finale, which accelerates gypsy-style (the principal theme harbours a sure reference to Brahms' Zigeunerlieder), and surveying numerous expressive techniques and tempo changes, including a trim fughetta. Barnabás Kelemen and friends keep the camp fires alight with playing that is both intense and dynamic, whereas the slower music has a dreamily rhapsodising quality about it.Runners-up on CD include Jenő Jandó with the Kodály Quartet (Naxos, 10/95), a good performance though nowhere near as vivid or fiery as the performance under review. Nor does Hungaroton's worthy recording with Csilla Szabó and the Tatrai Quartet prove a formidable contender. So I think it fair to say that Kelemen, Frang, Katalin Kokas, Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich sell this lovable product of youthful creative excess more securely than any of their predecessors on disc, certainly any that I […]
2019-01-27 23:48:19
The major work here is Haydn’s deliciously funny Fantasia (Capriccio) in C major of 1789, a sort of Scarlatti sonata on steroids. Jandó plays it straight–even those moments where Haydn asks that the performer let the note die away entirely pass by almost unobserved, and his tempos in general are stodgy. A pity, because the […]
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe). Performers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): J...