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Balassa: Trumpet Concerto

Trumpet and Piano

Balogh: Young Wives' Song

Vocal

The Young Wives' Song, written in 1925 by Attila Jozsef (1905-1937) is a poem I found accidentally in the summer of 2010. It struck me on reading it that it can have two different meanings: a…

Bella: Chuang Tzu's Dream - for violoncello solo and ensemble (2008)

Violoncello and various instruments

Bella: Trance - for violin solo and ensemble (2013)

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble, Violin

My composition Chang Tzu's Dream is a homage to the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu (4th century B.C.), who is one of the first important figures in Taoism. His work also influenced Chinese poetry and…
"Trance means an altered state of mind in which a person becomes capable of communicating with spirits by the means of a ritual. Echo like sounds have a significant role in the piece, they were…

Bozay: Quartetto per archi No. 3

String Quartet

Csapó: A Desert March...

Klavír

'Bozay's new quartet is an imposingly splendid work. Its slow second movement reaches almost Bartókian depths. The final rondeau is of elemental force. Each movement is characterized by lucid…
A Desert March is a protest march and a requiem for European musical culture. This seemingly endless march carries with it subdued or disfigured Western art music quotations (Brahms, Schubert,…

Csapó: Embroidery Patterns on the Cracked Face of the Earth for two clarinets and bassoon

Wind Trio

Csapó: Sideways Air on a Black Hole for Clarinet in Sib

Clarinet

The composer writes about his work: My piece entitled „Embroidery patterns on the cracked surface of the Earth” can be imagined somehow as follows: two clarinets and a bassoon „write” beautifully…
The composer writes the following about this work: 'As if we could only walk sideways in a tilted force field, Petruska-Harlequin in my piece evokes waltz fragments on a capsized 'Titanic', or…

Csapó: Phrag Mental Friezes

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Csapó: Sutraecitations

Chamber Music with Voice

Sutraecitations is vocal music composed for tenor (soprano) or bariton (mezzo-soprano) voice, three clarinets, the amplified sounds of piano, an amplifier, loudspeakers, two tuned glasses, and…

Csapó: Tundragobelin

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Dargay: Albumblatt - 'Városligeti fasor 33.'

Flute and Piano

The title refers to image-patterns of summer flowers and vegetation of the Northern Canadian tundra when viewed from a low-flying aircraft. Some characteristic titles among the eleven movements…
Albumblatt - „Városligeti fasor 33” refers to the title of an unwritten piece that Dargay during his years at the Music Academy planned together with the composer Balázs Futó. The basic idea of the…

Dargay: First Words After The Last

Mixed Chamber Trio

Dinyés: Komment und Zauberflöte for mezzo-soprano, ad lib. flute, violin, violoncello and piano

Chamber Music with Voice

The composer wrote this piece while still a third-year student at the Music Academy. The basis of it is a formula consisting of 9 notes, created by coding as notes a Christian name and various…
The composer writes about his work: „The piece was written for the 2006 Spring Festival. The wording of the commission requested me to try to express what a Mozart opera means to our era. It was as a…

Dinyés: Prose for piano

Klavír

Dubrovay: Violin concerto No. 2 (2011)

Violin and orchestra

„There’s a woman. She loves me.” The formal devices in Péter Esterházy’s book ‚Egy n’ (‚A Woman’) inspired this piano piece. How many ways can a sentence be continued? How many solutions can there be…
The three movements reflect classical romantic concertos in not only their structure but also their character. The relations between soloist and orchestra echo the dramatic composition of traditional…

Dubrovay: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (2012)

Violoncello and orchestra

Dubrovay: Five Piano Pieces

Klavír

The concerto was inspired by István Várdai's play and is dedicated to him. The triple movement structure and the character of the movements follow the patterns of classical concertos, while the…
This work, composed in 1971, was intended for professional performers. It was written with post-Webern, free twelve-tone technique; its sound is characterized by frequent use of all twelve notes in…

Eötvös: da capo (Mit Fragmenten aus W. A. Mozarts Fragmenten) (2014)

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble, Cimbalom, Marimba

Futó: Just a song for male voice and piano

Voice and piano

The meaning of "da capo" is to return to the beginning and start again. A musical process, which reaches somewhere but does not end, beginning again and again in a different way, from different basic…
The song was written in 2003, after the composer’s spells of work with Tom Bogdan. The piece is dedicated to him and to Meredith Monk, in whose ensemble Tom Bogdan regularly appears; as a performer…

Futó: Müller-Schubert: Der Leiermann

Chamber Music with Voice

Horváth: Alterego, Motorway Junction for saxophone quartet

Saxophone (more)

The piece was written in 2003, commissioned by the Budapest Spring Festival. The process of the work follows the line of the composer’s personal interpretation of the original poem. In this song the…
Both of the works by the young composer (*1976) that appear in this volume are dedicated to the Budapest Saxophone Quartet. Motorway Junction, written in 1996, was the composer's first work in this…

Horváth: and the ice is cracking around you, too

Flute and Piano

Horváth: Intermezzo

String Quartet

The title of the piece and its musical content refer to the title and musical ideas of a piano piece by the composer and pianist Balázs Futó. In conformity with his way of thinking, striking,…
''The four parts of the piece originate from the piano cycles of Johannes Brahms. The identical nature of the themes is implied in their descending direction, while their differences lie in their…

Horváth: Quintet for three performers

Mixed Chamber Trio

Horváth: Poly

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Quintet for three performers was commissioned by the Trio D'Echo. Its strange title refers to the constant, equivalent fivepart nature of the two outside movements, which use the same musical…
Poly was written as a homage to György Ligeti and his music. Therefore the musical elements and the titles of the movements refer to those artistic, technical, scientific, acoustic creationsand…

Horváth: Symmetry-Asymmetry for flute, viola and harp

Mixed Chamber Trio

Horváth: lines, words, letters... to poems by Parti Nagy for mezzo-soprano, violin and bassoon

Chamber Music with Voice

The title of this piece by Balázs Horváth refers to the interdependence of the musical materials. The first movement explores a complex system of rhythms with different symmetrical and asymmetrical…
This composition written in 2002 has five movements (I: a sort of canon, II: interlude 1, III: (hexameter), IV: interlude 2, V: false copy ). Three of the songs composed to verses by Lajos Parti Nagy…

Jávori: Klezmer-Suite (1999)

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Kocsár: Echoes No. 1

Horn

In the past decade the Budapest Klezmer Band and the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra have proved in their joint concerts that the melodic world of the instrumental music of the Ashkenazic Jews of…

Kocsár: Echoes No. 2

Horns

Kocsár: Echoes No. 3

Horns

The noted Hungarian composer Miklós Kocsár (b. 1933) composed his Echoes series consisting of four pieces during the 1980s and 1990s. Written for one, two, three, and four horns respectively, each…

Kocsár: Echoes No. 4

Horns

Kocsár: Rapsodia per trombone, pianoforte e percussione

Mixed Chamber Trio

The noted Hungarian composer Miklós Kocsár (b. 1933) composed his Echoes series consisting of four pieces during the 1980s and 1990s. Written for one, two, three, and four horns respectively, each…

Kocsár: Sonata per violino solo

Violin

Kocsár: Suite

Trombones

(Hungaroton HCD 31784)

Kocsár: Varianti per violoncello solo

Violoncello

Kondor: Chanson d'Hastieres pour Soprano, cymbalum et cor

Chamber Music with Voice

Ádám Kondor was born in Budapest in 1964. He completed his studies at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, and in 1994 gained his diploma in composition. His most influential teachers were Albert Simon…

Kondor: Douze coups

Violins

Kondor: Hälfte des Lebens - ein Ereignis -

Violoncello and Piano

This work collects together basic musical gestures, and while not aiming at completeness, the twelve movements nevertheless form a loose cycle. They are compositional studies, insofar as they explore…
This short, metaphorical work captures the moment when a person casts a summative glance over the past, takes final leave of all that has happened and peers with cautious hope into the future, which…

Kondor: Joyance - for Saint Julius Hydrophilos for piccolo/flute, harp and string trio

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Kondor: Old Bockhampton Tunes on poems by Thomas Hardy for female voice and violin

Chamber Music with Voice

In this piece the musicians have not only instrumental but also acting roles. They have to walk about the performing area in accordance with a specific plan, while uttering words and sentences taken…
Ádám Kondor compiled this series from poems written by Thomas Hardy after the age of 70, when the poet was mourning the death of his wife. According to the composer, he was fascinated by the figure…

Kondor: Positions für Bariton und Klalrinette

Chamber Music with Voice

Kondor: Schattenwelt, Schlachtfeld

Mixed Chamber Duo

Linked to expressive, passionate verses by Albert Ehrenstein (1886?1950) is a quiet meditation by an unknown 16th-century English poet on the relationship between music and the night. Two languages,…
The set of eight short duets entitled Schattenwelt, Schlachtfeld was composed in 1999 and was influenced by the extraordinary clarinet-playing of Barbaros Erköse (Istambul). Employing simple stage…

Kondor: Tayil for male voice (narrator) and eight instruments

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Kondor: Variations of a Double

Clarinet and Piano

This composition is a paraphrase of a work entitled 'Chi fa notte il giorno' by the contemporary Italian composer Luca Lombardi. It was given its premiere on June 1, 2003 at the Art Gallery in…
Variations on a Double is a real musical leviathan: almost an hour long, it is a sound-monstrosity that makes exceptional demands of the performers, and is the product of an unusual degree of fusion…

Lendvay: Study

Viola

Madarász: Concerto F(L)A

Flute and orchestra

The piece, commissioned by Eszter Lázár and the Hungarian Radio, was composed in 1995 on occasion of the 50th anniversary of Béla Bartók’s death. Its world premiere was held on 1 October in the…

Madarász: Hasidic Stories

Brass Quintet

Madarász: Embroidered Sounds

Chamber Music with Voice

Orbán: Sonata

Bassoon and Piano

Perényi: Introduzione e scherzo

Violoncello

The premiere of the chamber music work written at the end of 1987 was given in August 1989 in Manchester. With its fast-slow-fast sequence of movements and the manner of its formation this piece of…
One of the greatest contemporary cellists, Miklós Perényi (b. 1948), appears with great success as a soloist and chamber musician on concert stages across the world. In addition to giving concerts…

Petrovics: Rhapsody for Cello No. 2/a

Violoncello

Sári: To Echo

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Sáry: A Continuity of rotative chords

Flute and Piano, Flutes and Piano

Sáry: El viaje definitivo - The final journey to the poem by Juan Ramón Jiménez

Chamber Music with Voice

The work (dating from 1992), similarly to the earlier composition entitled Journey to Ixtlan, was composed by Sáry to the poem 'El viaje definitivo' by the famous Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez,…

Sáry: Chamber Music for Optional Ensembles

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Sáry: Magnificat

Chamber Music with Voice

This collection is a sequel to the composer's earlier book entitled Creative Musical Exercises and is intended to help students and performers (of any level of musical ability) to accept the novel…
In this work written in 1982 with strict compositional techniques the melodic instrument plays the melodic inversions of the voice part. The fast, even movement is characteristic of both parts. The…

Sáry: Dance Music (1987-2000)

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Sáry: Triptichon - in memoriam Ildikó Vékony (2011)

Mixed Chamber Duo

The work was composed in memory of the Hungarian cimbalom player Ildikó Vékony, who died in an accident in autumn 2009. It is based on an earlier piece for solo cimbalom Slow and Brisk (Sáry László:…

Sáry: Journey to Ixtlan to a fragment of the poem by Juan Ramón Jiménez

Chamber Music with Voice

Serei: Album leaves and Interludes for piano

Klavír

This composition for soprano and chamber ensemble was inspired by the incomparably beautiful poem El viaje definitivo by the Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for…
The piano series entitled Album leaves is an open piece, like an imaginary keepsake album which is continually added to, and the pages are connected through the owner of the album. The movements that…

Serei: Three chinese quatrains to poems by Li Tai-Po, in the Hungarian translation by Géza Képes

Voice and piano

Serei: Letters from X - Fax from X - For 51 to LI

Mixed Chamber Trio

The work by Zsolt Serei entitled Three Chinese Quatrains, for soprano voice and piano, was composed in 1996?97 to verses by the 7th-century Chinese poet Li Tai-Po. The atmosphere of these songs,…
Letters from X was composed in 1981, Fax from X in 2003, and For 51 to LI in 2009. Not only the instruments but also the performers - all three works are dedicated to Zoltán Gyöngyössy and István…

Serei: L'ombre sur les structures pliées

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Serei: Serenade for horn and chamber ensemble

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

The piece was written in honour of Pierre Boulez's 75th birthday. Besides the title, put together like a mosaic from three Pierre Boulez pieces entitled Dialogue de l'ombre double, Structures, and…
In view of its arrangement Serenade, written for horn and chamber orchestra of fourteen instruments, may be regarded as a chamber concert. The one-movement piece written on command of horn player…

Szőllősy: Addio per violino principale e 9 archi

String Orchestra

Szőllősy: Passacaglia Achatio Máthé

String Quartet

The latest work by András Szőllősy, who celebrated his 80th birthday last year, was given its first performance in May 2002 by the Addio chamber orchestra, within the framework of the contemporary…
(Hungaroton HCD 31727)

Szőllősy: Sonata for Solo Violin (1947)

Violin

Tihanyi: Silence of the Winds

Chamber Orchestra

András Szőllősy (1921-2007) was one of the most significant Hungarian composers of the second half of the 20th century, yet his oeuvre has not become as well-known as that of György Ligeti, two years…
(Hungaroton HCD 31352)

Tihanyi: Shadow Play

Mixed Chamber Trio

Tihanyi: In the Forests of the Night for 15 strings (2015)

String Orchestra, String Ensemble

(BMC CD 027)
The work was commissioned by the Budapest Strings and received its first performance on March 21, 2015, where it was conducted by the composer. It is not an orchestral piece per se, but a chamber…

Tihanyi: Frieze - for viola and ensemble (2015)

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Tihanyi: Irrlichtspiel

Violin and orchestra

The title of the work refers to the ornament-like musical motifs of the solo part. These open the piece and later, during the elaboration of the form, they provide for building blocks. The…
Three compositions which belong together were written by Tihanyi in 1991-1992: Winterszenen, Nachtszene (night Scene) and Irrlichtspiel (Will o? the wisp). The Irrlichtspiel composition for violin…

Tihanyi: Jan Jansson's trip from Denmark to Denmark

Flute

Tihanyi: Scene for Five Characters

Brass Quintet

The composer calls his Scene for Five Characters for brass quintet a mystery-play parody or a mystical comedy, enriched with theatrical components. The four ancient elements (fire, water, earth and…

Tihanyi: Two Imaginary Dialogues (2011)

Chamber Orchestra

Tihanyi: Linos for harp

Harp

The work (completed in December 2011) is commissioned by Vladimir Tarnopolski and his Ensemble Studio for New Music Moscow.

Composing this piece it made me meditate on my relationship to Russian…

Greek mythology seems spontaneously to have offered the figure of linos as the central character in a work for solo harp. (Linos was a poet, believed to be the brother of Orpheus, and according to…

Tihanyi: Eight Invocations to the Lunar Phases

Viola and piano

Tihanyi: Preludium, Invocation, Postludium

String Trio

Eight movements of differing character, which represent the various stages of a coherent astronomical and psychological process of the lunar phases. (Full moon, Waning gibbous moon, Last quarter…
The first and third movements are adapted from an earlier instrumental composition (Shadowplay), the second one originates from the Eight Invocations to the Lunar Phases. It was premiered on December…

Tihanyi: Rundherum for piano and string quartet

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

Tihanyi: Summer Music

Chamber Orchestra

The piece was composed in the spring of 2012, at the request of the Kempten International Chamber Music Festival. The title Rundherum refers to the staging of the piece and the movement of the…
(Hungaroton HCD 31792)

Vajda: Lightshadow-Trembling

Clarinet

Vajda: Light Sonatina

Klavír

Gergely Vajda composed Lightshadow-trembling at the age of 20 in 1993. Being a clarinettist, he was interested in the possibilities of both traditional and modern ways of playing. Noise elements and…

Vajda: Sonata for Solo Viola

Viola

Vajda: Sonata for Solo Violoncello

Violoncello

This virtuoso concert piece was originally composed for viola in 2004. (The version for violoncello was written in 2006, and the version for violin in 2010.) As with other works by János Vajda, the…
A virtuoso concert piece, a transcription for violoncello of the Solo Sonata composed for viola in 2004. As in other works by János Vajda, in the well-proportioned structure of the solo sonata and in…

Vajda: Sonata for Solo Violin

Violin

Vidovszky: 12 String Quartets

String Quartet

This virtuoso concert piece is a violin transcription of the Solo Sonata composed for viola in 2004. As with other works by János Vajda, the well-proportioned structure of the solo sonata and its…
"Based on the seriousness and sophistication of the undertaking, the 12 pieces could perhaps be compared to Ligeti's series of etudes. Each starts from a basic musical element, form of movement,…

Vidovszky: German Dances

String Quartet

Vidovszky: Nine Little Greeting Chorales to Kurtág

Pianos (2)

The work, dated 1989, appears to be a pure stylistic exercise with the Schumannian and Brahmsian patterns of "true" romanticism. Vidovszky creates a kind of "minimal music" from the abstraction of…
Arrangement of nine Protestant chorale melodies known from the works of J.S. Bach in two-piano and one-piano versions. The piece was created in 1996, to greet the 70-year-old György Kurtág, who often…

Vidovszky: Autres gymnopédies

Klavír

Vidovszky: Reverb

Chamber Music for Strings and Piano

The author writes about his work: "The composition was written in 1994 and premiered the same year in Pécs, at the House of Arts. I wrote these three short piano pieces as a gift to the musicians…
''In this composition I was not searching for the conventional possibilities of the piano quintet, but for the acoustic distance between the two types of sound. The sounds of the piano are not meant…

Vidovszky: Soft Errors for chamber ensemble

Chamber Music for Mixed Ensemble

László Vidivszky's work entitled Soft Errors (1989) might be described as a serendipitous find: as a result of a 'chance computer event', from the fragments of music it contained Vidovszky's computer…
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