Time cures everything, or at least that's what always has been commented. Such remark seems appropiate before the story of the only Symphony which Rózsa ever created: rejected on his moment due to its excessive lenght, and abandoned for the composer which never believe on it unreasonably, it is a work of certain scope and classic look, firm and nice to hear, perhaps not excessively original but never the disaster foreseed by its author. Work indebted, on certain grounds, to the germanic symphonism, but profoundly hungarian on matter and core, it can be heard for the first time on the revision which the composer himself and the indispensable Christopher Palmer does on 1993, and on which one of the original movements (the scherzo) is missing, since only survived a few fragments of it. Much more personal and interesting is The Vintner's Daughter, a cycle of variations over a popular french song which Rózsa has composed for piano in 1953, and which is here presented on his orchestration of 1955. The use of one of the more beloved forms of the composer, the variations, on which he always was a master, and certain impresionist flavour which accompany the unavoidable hungarian taste of his music, makes of it one his more esteemed scores.

Symphony in Three Movements, op.6a (1930/1993) - 39:03
The Vintner's Daughter, op.23a (1955) - 24:50
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: James Sedares
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS - 372442H1 / 56'

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