Pál Hermann, born in Budapest in 1902, was not only one of the leading cellists of his generation; he was also an important composer, one of the major figures in Hungarian music in the generation after his teachers Bartók and Kodály. But since only two of his works were published before his early death – in 1944, at the hands of the Nazis – and many more of them were lost, he has not had the esteem that he deserves. The kaleidoscopic variety of the works on this third, and final, volume of his surviving compositions – biting Bartókian piano pieces, Neo-Baroque essays of considerable contrapuntal ingenuity, songs with a French Impressionist flavour, even a sly transcription of a foxtrot - underlines how much was lost with his murder.
Works:
•Pal Hermann: Allegro für Klavier
• Pal Hermann: Toccata für Klavier
• Pal Hermann: 4 Epigrammes für Klavier
• Pal Hermann:Piece für Klavier 4-händig
• Pal Hermann:Zeven Kippen hebben wij für 5 Stimmen
• Pal Hermann:Suite für 3 Blockflöten
• Pal Hermann:Sarabande für Laute
• Pal Hermann:Divertissement für Cembalo
• Pal Hermann:Inventio für Orgel
• Pal Hermann:Allegretto für Horn & Klavier
• Pal Hermann: La Ceinture für Bariton & Klavier
• Pal Hermann:La Dormeuse für Bariton & Klavie
• Pal Hermann: Ophelie für Bariton & Klavier
• Pal Herman: Foxtrott für Violine & Cello "Somebody's wrong" (arrangiert von Pal Hermann)
• Franz Schubert / Pal Hermann: Moment musical D. 780 Nr. 3 für Cello & Klavier
• Frederic Chopin / Pal Hermann: Grand Valse brillante op. 18 für Cello & Klavier