Irnberger/Kaspar/Simon - Salon de Budapest

Thomas Albertus Irnberger, violin, and Pavel Ka�par, piano, lead us with their album Salon de Budapest into the bourgeois salon of the late 19th century � an oasis amid the �good old days� which weren�t, of course, that good to begin with: mired turmoil, social inequalities, and wars as much and more than ever since. The invited audience were to listen to Hungarian dances by Brahms, Kod�ly or Rachmaninoff, Cs�rd�s� by Franz Leh�r, Miska Hauser or Jen? Hubay, Romances, Fantasies and other melodies by Tchaikovsky, Leopold Auer, Carl Bohm or Joseph Joachim. Some songs from operettas by Leh�r, Jen? Huszka, Emmerich K�lm�n and Pongr�c Kacs�h with the Hungarian soprano Brigitta Simon complete this musical visit to the Salon de Budapest.