Béla Kovács

Bela Kovacs continues to be hailed by critics and community alike as the best possible Hungarian clarinetist of his period. Not surprisingly, they are among the most important interpreters of Hungarian clarinet repertory, specially the functions of Bartók and Dohnányi, aswell as of modern compatriots like Ferenc Farkas, Miklós Kocsar, Endre Szervánszky, and Zsolt Durkó. But Kovacs is certainly equally persuasive in a wide range of additional music, including functions by Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Donizetti, Brahms, Ravel, and countless others. Kovacs also takes on jazz, as evidenced from the perky Gershwin takeoff for clarinet and piano, ONCE YOU, Mr. Gershwin. Kovacs should be credited not merely with performance of this work, but he’s also the author of it and offers written additional functions for clarinet, like the Homage to J.S. Bach, for single clarinet. Kovacs offers mainly documented for Hungaroton and Naxos, even though some of his early shows can be purchased in anthologies on reissue brands like Delta and Laserlight. Bela Kovacs was created in Tatabánya, Hungary, on, may 1, 1937. His 1st advanced studies had been in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where his educators included clarinetist and arranger/music editor György Balassa. The remarkably gifted Kovacs joined up with the Hungarian Condition Opera Orchestra when he was 19 but still a student in the Liszt Academy. He ultimately became the main clarinetist and offered in that capability until he remaining the orchestra in 1981. In 1961 Kovacs co-founded the Budapest Chamber Outfit, an organization he was energetic in until 1971. In 1964 he was granted the Liszt Reward. Kovacs became a member of the faculty in the Liszt Academy in 1969 and was presented with a professorship there in 1975. He later on taught in the University or college of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, with the Conservatorio di Musica, Udine. In the 1970s Kovacs’ 1st single recordings were released by Hungaroton. His most significant documenting from his early years was an extremely praised 1976 LP from the Brahms clarinet sonatas, with pianist Dezsõ Ránki (reissued on Compact disc in 1997). He continuing documenting for Hungaroton, turning out such attempts as the acclaimed 1986 Mozart Concerto for Clarinet, K. 622, as well as the 1994 Five Motions for clarinet, strings, and harpsichord by Kocsar. In the brand new century Kovacs continued to be active like a instructor and clarinet soloist. His later on recordings are the 2005 Naxos Compact disc filled with the Donizetti Clarinet Concertino and various other Donizetti functions.