Buried treasure

Flautist Noemi Gyori introduces us to a selection of her most treasured recordings

Weinberg Symphony No. 21

CBSO/MIRGA Gra inyt -tyla

Deutsche Grammophon 483 6566

I performed Weinberg at a festival in Munich, so was really interested in getting to know his music. This is a very long piece, dedicated to his parents and sisters – I come from a Jewish family, so there are personal links as well. What particularly struck me about this recording is that Mirga found the necessary colour the music requires, without distracting from the depth of it. It made a great impression on me. The Boyash Gypsies of Hungary

The Boyash Gypsies

ARC Music EUCD 1670

I come from Hungary and there’s a great palette of different types of music, including a very rich culture of folk and Romany ethnic music. The Boyash are a small group of Gypsies living in Romania and southern Hungary, and this disc has so many songs that are earworms. There’s a lot of improvisation, a lot of guitar, percussion, singing and whistling. It changes character very quickly and I love that. Schubert in Memoriam Sviatoslav Richter

Elisso Wirssaladze (piano)

Live Classics LCL 381

The sound of a musician tells so much about their personality and their relationship to the instrument and composer. I think Georgian pianism is very distinctive, with a certain warmth and depth that I find very meaningful. This rare live recording was made in 1998, when Elisso was in her fifties, and it’s just one extraordinary performance after the next. She has a special relationship to the music, but for me it’s less about what she’s playing and more about the textures she presents. Noemi Gyori and Gergely Madaras’s new album of works by the Doppler brothers is out on 22 April on Rubicon Classics.