Description

LÍVIA RÉV (BUDAPEST, 5 JULY, 1916 – LA CELLE-SAINT-CLOUD, 28 MARCH, 2018)

Rév was born in Budapest as Lili Rauchwerger. She began her studies with Margit Varró and Klára Máthé. Aged nine, she won the Grand Prix des Enfants Prodiges. Aged twelve she performed with an orchestra. She studied with Leó Weiner and Arnold Székely at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, with Professor Robert Teichmüller at the Leipzig Conservatory, and with Paul Weingarten at the Vienna Conservatory, having left Hungary in 1946.

Among Rév’s earliest recordings made around 1947 were a series of sixteen-inch radio transcription discs for the Standard Program Library. These included a virtuosic performance of Francis Poulenc’s Toccata. She performed across Europe, in Asia, Africa, and in the United States. She was a soloist with such conductors as Sir Adrian Boult, André Cluytens, Jascha Horenstein, Eugen Jochum, Josef Krips, Rafael Kubelík, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Constantin Silvestri and Walter Susskind.

Her first United States appearance was in 1963 at the invitation of the Rockefeller Institute. Her recordings for Saga and Hyperion vary from complete Debussy Préludes, Chopin Nocturnes and Mendelssohn Songs Without Words.

TRACKLIST

1. A Prole do Bebê, Primeira Série, W140 Bonecas No. 2, A Boneca de Massa Moreninha (Villa-Lobos)
2. A Prole do Bebê, Primeira Série, W140 Bonecas No. 6, A Boneca de Trapo A Pobrezinha (Villa-Lobos)
3. A Prole do Bebê, Primeira Série, W140 Bonecas No. 7, O Polichinelo (Villa-Lobos)
4. Album for the Young, Op. 68 No. 8, The Wild Horseman (Schumann)
5. Album for the Young, Op. 68 No. 9, Folk Song (Schumann)
6. Album for the Young, Op. 68 No. 10, The Merry Peasant, Returning from Work (Schumann)
7. Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 Für Elise (Beethoven)
8. Children’s Corner, L. 113 No. 1, Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Debussy)
9. Children’s Corner, L. 113 No. 6, Golliwog’s Cake-Walk (Debussy)
10. Dolly, Op. 56 No. 1, Berceuse (Fauré)
11. For Children, Sz. 42, Book I On Hungarian Folksongs No. 34, Evening Kiss (Bartók)
12. For Children, Sz. 42, Book I On Hungarian Folksongs No. 42, The Swineherd’s Dance (Bartók)
13. Jeux d’enfants, Op. 22 No. 2, La toupie (Bizet)
14. Music for Children, Op. 65 No. 6, Waltz (Prokofiev)
15. Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 No. 3, Blind Man’s Bluff (Schumann)
16. Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 No. 12, Child Falling Asleep (Schumann)
17. Trio in G Minor, BWV 929 (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach)