Trio Arnold

Ernst von Dohnanyi, Laszlo Lajtha, Zoltan Kodaly

Hungarian nights

Arnold Trio

Shuichi Okada, violin
Manuel Vioque-Judde, viola
Bumjun Kim, cello

László Lajtha (1892-1963)
Transylvian Nigths, Op. 41

Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
Intermezzo for String Trio

Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960)
Serenade for string trio, Op. 10

Under the sign of the night and its charms, the young Trio Arnold, already multi-awarded, pays tribute to Hungarian string trio music of the early 20th century. A rare work by Lajtha, a pupil and friend of Bartók, Transylvanian Evenings evokes in reinvented folklore ‘the course of the seasons in the mountains and meadows of ancient Transylvania’. An Intermezzo by Kodály, followed by Dohnányi's sparkling Serenade, close the journey with a bewitching whiff of the Austro-Hungarian Belle Epoque.