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Fekete: Roman Fever; Elegia--In Memoriam Hannah Szenes. (Opera And Oratorio).(Review)
[] Rajk, Sudar; Budapest Chamber Symphony, Hamar (Roman Fever). Cserna; Ambrus; Budapest Tompkins Vocal Ensemble, Budapest Chamber Symphony, Tihanyi (Elegia). Text and translation. Hungaroton HCD 31914 (Qualiton, dist.)
Hungarian Gyula Fekete (b. 1962) obtained his graduate degrees at Roosevelt University, Chicago, and Northwestern University, Evanston (1993), before returning to Budapest to teach at Franz Liszt Academy, his alma mater. The two works offered here, written five years apart, represent entirely different facets of his musical personality.
Roman Fever, based on a short story by Edith Wharton, dates from the composer's American years. The libretto was originally written in English, but the text seems to fit the music better in its Hungarian translation. (They are provided side by side in the accompanying booklet.) In this concise chamber opera (36:43), two American upper-class ladies in the 1920s, accompanied by their flapper-age daughters, revisit Rome, the scene of their original joint vacation some twenty-five years earlier. Friends from childhood, they recall their memories, and old, repressed rivalries rise to the surface until their initially placid dialogue gradually develops into a tense drama with an unexpectedly startling ending. Fekete handles the vocal and orchestral elements with great skill, with the highly singable, ...
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