Artist database

This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

Vályi Csilla


cello

Place of Birth
Date of Birth
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Csilla Vályi graduated in 1990 as a student of Miklós Perényi at the Academy of Music in Budapest. Her chamber music teachers were György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados. Since 1990 she has performed regularly at prestigious festivals in Hungary and abroad with Concerto Armonico (Brussels, Hannover, The Hague, Namur, Paris) and Affetti Musicali (Bydgoszcz, Transylvania, Malta, Tallinn, Bratislava, Prague). Since 1993 she has been a regular member of Capella Savaria, as well as principal cellist, soloist, continuo player and occasional soloist.

She has contributed to more than 40 CDs (released by Hungaroton, Naxos, Harmonia Mundi, Dorian, Glossa). She has performed with such renowned artists as Rosa Mannion, Michael Chance, Martin Klietmann, Nicholas Clapton, Jill Feldmann, Derek Lee Ragin, Mária Zádori, Bart Kuijken, Simon Standage, Christophe Coin, Anneke Boeke, Malcolm Bilson, Miklós Spányi.

In 1999, she was a founding member of the Ad Libitum chamber music workshop, through which she has participated in the performance of many special works rarely performed in Hungary (Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, O. Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, Károly Goldmark's Piano Quintet, Dohnányi's Sextet, etc.). Since 2000, as a member of the Trio Antiqua (violin-cello-fortepiano), she has performed in Eszterháza in numerous chamber concerts with works by J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Kraus, Hummel.

Since 2002, she has been the cellist of the Authentic Quartet, a period-instrument quartet with whom Hungaroton has released a 12-CD string quartet series of music history rarities. These discs feature works by Lickl, Fesca, Zmeskall, Albrechtsberger, Krommer, Vanhal, Stamitz, Werner, Wölfl, Förster, János Végh and Pleyel that have not been recorded since their creation.
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Three String Quartets Op.7 Nos. 4-6. Hungaroton HCD 32495
1996 Telemann, Georg Philipp: Szóló kantáták a "Fortsetzung des Harmonischen Gottesdienstes" gyűjteményből
(Telemann, Georg Philipp: Solo Cantatas from the Collection "Fortsetzung des Harmonischen Gottesdienstes")
Hungaroton HCD 31597
1996 Muffat, Georg: 12 concerto grosso Hungaroton HCD 31666-67 2 CDs
1998 Pachelbel, Johann: Áriák és duettek
(Pachelbel, Johann: Arias & Duets)
Hungaroton HCD 31736
2000 Hasse, Johann Adolf: Olasz kantáták (obligát hangszerekkel) Hungaroton HCD 31843
2001 Francia és német kamarazene a 17-18. századból
(French and German Chamber Music from the 17-18th Century)
Magánkiadás
2003 Steffani, Agostino: Scherzi Musicali - Hat kantáta
(Steffani, Agostino: Scherzi Musicali - Six cantatas)
Hungaroton HCD 32078
2003 Bach, J. Ch.: Korai szonáták
(Bach, J. Ch.: Early Sonatas)
Hungaroton HCD 32149-50 Own
2 CDs / First recordings
2004 Lappi, Pietro: Brescia ünnepi zenéi - 12 canzone
(Lappi, Pietro: Ceremonial Music of Brescia - 12 canzone)
Hungaroton HCD 32295
2004 Georg Lickl: Vonósnégyesek
(Georg Lickl: 3 String Quartets)
Hungaroton HCD 32220 on period instruments
2006 Fesca, Friedrich Ernst: String Quartets Op.1 Hungaroton
2008 Wölfl, Joseph: Három vonósnégyes Op. 4
(Wölfl, Joseph: 3 String Quartets Op. 4)
Hungaroton HCD 32580 First recordings
2010 6 Fugues a 4 - 6 Quarttets Op.16 - Sonata in C (pro festo Paschalis) Hungaroton HCD 32653
2011 Förster, Emanuel Aloys:3 String Quartets Op.21 Hungaroton HCD 32705
2013 Végh János: String Quartets Hungaroton HCD 32726
2015 Pleyel, Ignace Joseph: String Quartets Op.41 Nos 1-2 & Op.42 Nos 1-2
(Pleyel, Ignace Joseph: String Quartets Op.41 Nos 1-2 & Op.42 Nos 1-2)
Hungaroton HCD 32783 First recordings