Recorded: Budapest Film Orchestra, A Winter Journal (Hoyer Media, 2023)
What's included: Full conductor's score + all orchestral parts (PDF)
Description: This piece is a musical travelogue from a river trip from Budapest to Passau right at the turn of Springtime. It opens with a murmuring of the Duna/Donau/Danube River as the journey begins with a hopeful call of anticipation from the horns. The river moves between destinations on shore. Starting with a slightly off-balance dance in 5/8 we being in the gracious and radiant Hungarian capital of Budapest. After a short interlude on the water, we arrive in Bratislava, Slovakia were the 5/8 meter talks a more solemn tone in this city that had been crushed but not broken under years of Soviet occupation. From here, the river turns merrier as we arrive in the Imperial capital city of Vienna. The splendor of it heights are embodied in a glittering waltz. After the celebrations and champagne, our river journey turns to a more introspective destination, Göttweig Abbey. This is a 1000 year old place of spiritual contemplation that is accompanied by the singing of birds in the apricot orchards that surround it. From here we are back on the river for an excursion to Český Krumlov in Czechia. The music paints a picture of its fortified past and the brusque feeling of the castle that still hosts a collection of live bears. We return to the river to come to the end of the journey whose music has filled the whole piece from the beginning. Passau, Germany sits at the confluence of the Danube and the Inn rivers and the music of the Danube rises to fill the accompaniment as the waters meet. We are at the end but a brief epilogue transforms the melody we heard in Budapest to become a grand chorale evokes the playing of a majestic organ that celebrates the many stunning cathedrals throughout the trip. A final murmur of the eddying river brings a horn call to bring our journey to a symmetric conclusion.
Conducted by Peter Pejtsik; recorded for A Winter Journal in 2023.
Recorded: Budapest Film Orchestra, A Winter Journal (Hoyer Media, 2023)
What's included: Full conductor's score + all orchestral parts (PDF)
Description: This piece is a musical travelogue from a river trip from Budapest to Passau right at the turn of Springtime. It opens with a murmuring of the Duna/Donau/Danube River as the journey begins with a hopeful call of anticipation from the horns. The river moves between destinations on shore. Starting with a slightly off-balance dance in 5/8 we being in the gracious and radiant Hungarian capital of Budapest. After a short interlude on the water, we arrive in Bratislava, Slovakia were the 5/8 meter talks a more solemn tone in this city that had been crushed but not broken under years of Soviet occupation. From here, the river turns merrier as we arrive in the Imperial capital city of Vienna. The splendor of it heights are embodied in a glittering waltz. After the celebrations and champagne, our river journey turns to a more introspective destination, Göttweig Abbey. This is a 1000 year old place of spiritual contemplation that is accompanied by the singing of birds in the apricot orchards that surround it. From here we are back on the river for an excursion to Český Krumlov in Czechia. The music paints a picture of its fortified past and the brusque feeling of the castle that still hosts a collection of live bears. We return to the river to come to the end of the journey whose music has filled the whole piece from the beginning. Passau, Germany sits at the confluence of the Danube and the Inn rivers and the music of the Danube rises to fill the accompaniment as the waters meet. We are at the end but a brief epilogue transforms the melody we heard in Budapest to become a grand chorale evokes the playing of a majestic organ that celebrates the many stunning cathedrals throughout the trip. A final murmur of the eddying river brings a horn call to bring our journey to a symmetric conclusion.
Conducted by Peter Pejtsik; recorded for A Winter Journal in 2023.
Recorded here by Peter Pejtsik and the Budapest Film Orchestra in 2022
