Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV; Mariusz Smolij - Eugene Zador: Piano Quintet (version for piano and string orchestra); Accordion Concerto; Suite for Brass Instruments; Hungarian Fantasy

Devoted to music that celebrated the human spirit, Eugene Zador took pleasure in composing for unusual ensembles. One such example of what he called 'underprivileged' instruments was the accordion and his delightful concerto for the instrument is tonal but coloured by a communicative, contemporary vocabulary. As befits the man who was Miklos Rozsa's exclusive film-score orchestrator, Zador finds glorious sonority and colour in the Suite for Brass Instruments. The evocative smaller pieces have been arranged by Mariusz Smolij as has the characterful and wide-ranging Piano Quintet of 1933 that won the Hungarian National State Prize.