Valentina Toth - Hungarian Horizon - Piano Music of Kodaly and Bartok

'Hungarian Horizon' is the debut CD by the highly-talented 18 year old pianist Valentina T�th, and features the music by the two most influential Hungarian composer's of the 20th century, Zoltan Kodaly and Bela Bartok. The works that she has chosen for the disc are Kodaly's 7 pieces, opus 11 and Marosszek Dances, as well as Bartok's 14 Bagatelles and 3 Hungarian Folk Songs from Csik.

In 2009 Valentina T�th won first prize in the Princess Christina Piano Competition and her career has been on the up and up ever since. Although she has only recently finished secondary school and is studying at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, she has already been on the stage at Carnegie Hall. For her first album Valentina T�th has decided to perform music by two of her favourite composers, Bart�k and Kod�ly. The Bagatelles opus 6 were written in 1908 and are an important link in the work of Bart�k, since they date from the time when Bart�k started to seriously collect and document Hungarian folk music. T�th combines this and the same composer's Three Folk Songs from Cs�k with the Seven Piano Pieces, Op. 11, and the Dances of Marossz�k by Kod�ly. Kod�ly based the latter work on melodies and dances he had collected in the Marossz�k region in Transsylvania. Romania. Originally written for piano, he later adapted it for orchestra.

Personnel: Valentina T�th (piano)