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Kodály Zoltán: Choral Works for Children's and Female Voices - Extended and revised edition
With his over 130 works for unaccompanied choir Zoltán Kodály laid the foundation of modern Hungarian choral literature.
This volume of works for children's and female voices is an extended and revised edition. Containing a total of 59 compositions, three of which were not included in earlier editions, it is the most complete and most authentic edition of Kodály's choral works for children's and female voices to be published thus far. It has been edited based on uniform principles, contains easy-to-read, first-rate musical scores, and includes an informative Epilogue.
The volume is available both in paperback and clothbound.
New Bárdos choral work publications in English
Lajos Bárdos (1899-1986), composer, musicologist, teacher, and choral conductor, laid down, together with Kodály, the foundations of 20th-century Hungarian choral music.
Through his work as a conductor, he raised the standards of Hungarian choral singing to an international level in a few decades.
His compositions were directed towards cultivating Hungarian choral life: they draw on Renaissance polyphony and Hungarian folk music, following Kodály and Bartók. His works, which are models of choral writing, deal sensitively with Hungarian prosody and radiate an inner harmony and vigor.
A selection of his most popular choral works has been published with English texts by Gail Needleman in five volumes.
New contemporary works from UMPEMB
Several new contemporary instrumental and choral works was published by Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest in the past months.
Discover the novelties by Zoltán Gárdonyi, Gyula Csapó, Zsolt Serei, Máté Balogh and other excellent composers.
Buzzing Polka
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Buzzing Polka, composed in 1993, is one of the earliest compositions by László Dubrovay (*1943) for concert band, which has become a huge success due to use of special timbres and effects which had been unexploited in the genre earlier. Already the title tells that classical musical values and surprising moments of special brass instrument techniques can be both found in the work. Every second in the striking character piece is made interesting by the excellent balance between the pillar-like harmonies enriched by distant overtones and horizontal melody formation. Performing Buzzing Polka is a great opportunity for conveying the message and values of the music of the 20th and 21st centuries through the contrast between classical melodies and new ways of instrumentation. |
After Mozart
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László Dubrovay's work, written in 2006, on the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, is a salute of a 21st-century composer to one of the greatest geniuses in the history of music. The composer builds his original ideas on one of the best-known melodies of The Marriage of Figaro (Figaro's aria: ''Non pi? andrai, farfallone amoroso''). The series of variations on the theme of the aria is created by the involvement of special instruments, and by fully harnessing their technical abilities, while Dubrovay's hallmark of a perfect balance and peculiar compositional tone is realised on an exceptionally large orchestra. The work is suited to illustrate the potentials of crossovers between different periods in the history of music, but it can also be played at a festive, thematic concert. |
Bartók's six string quartets belong to the gems of the genre, all of them being regarded as classics of 20th-century music.
In 2016, Editio Musica Budapest, together with Henle Verlag of Munich, launched the Bartók Complete Critical Edition. Volume 29 of the Bartók Complete Edition presents the full scores of all six quartets in a new critical edition. The critical commentary for this edition is published in volume 30 of the Complete Edition.
Béla BARTÓK: String Quartets Nos. 1–6
Béla BARTÓK: String Quartets Nos. 1–6 – Critical Commentary
Two new titles by Árpád Balázs have been published
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Kuruc Scenes The composer uses melodies from the early 18th century, from the age of Rákóczi's war of independence. Rhapsody Rhapsody follows the one-movement structure created by Franz Liszt. The Rhapsody is a passionately emotional lyric orchestral poem rich in colours and characters, which has a place on the repertoire of every concert band playing quality music. Publisherd by Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest |
Two new titles for concert band
Two new titles by Árpád BALÁZS have been published in the Concert Band series.
Árpád BALÁZS: Kuruc Scenes
for tárogató or soprano saxophone
and concert band
The composer uses melodies from the early 18th century, from the age of Rákóczi's war of independence.
Árpád BALÁZS: Rhapsody
for cimbalom or marimba
and concert band
Rhapsody follows the one-movement structure created by Franz Liszt. The Rhapsody is a passionately emotional lyric orchestral poem rich in colours and characters, which has a place on the repertoire of every concert band playing quality music.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
One full score as well as individual parts are provided for each work.
New series within the New Liszt Edition
Works and arrangements for piano duet and two pianos are published in the III. series of the New Liszt Edition.
A draft and the two-piano version of Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy transcribed by Liszt have been published in the 1. volume of the recently launched III. series.
This volume comes complete with a detailed preface, several manuscript facsimiles, and a critical report.
These series were launched within the New Liszt Edition so far:
Series I: Works for piano solo (18 volumes),
Series II: Free arrangements and transcriptions for piano solo (24 volumes),
Supplementary volumes for Series I and II (16 volumes),
Series III: Works and arrangements for piano duet and two pianos (1 volume so far),
Series IX: Vocal works with orchestra or with several instruments (1 volume so far).
Separate editions and practical versions supplement the New Liszt Edition.
Offprints of Béla Bartók’s Choral Works
Each choral works by Bartók can be purchased as single sheets now. The complete series of the offprints from Béla Bartók’s Choral Works has been issued.
Béla BARTÓK:
Choral Works for Children's and Female Voices – 28 offprints
Béla BARTÓK:
Choral Works for Male Voices – 5 offprints
Béla BARTÓK:
Choral Works for Mixed Voices – 3 offprints
All offprints include rough translation of the texts in English in the appendix.
The choral works by Bartók have been published in cloth-bound edition in slipcase, too.
In 2016, Editio Musica Budapest, together with Henle Verlag of Munich, launched the Bartók Complete Edition. In May 2022 a new volume was published, the seventh in the series, containing Bartók’s string quartets – considered by most discerning audiences to be classics of the twentieth century.
This critical edition contains all six string quartets, based on a comparison of all contemporary printed and manuscript sources. The composer’s analyses of the Fourth and Fifth Quartets appear at the end of the volume.
The introductory studies, more detailed than ever, not only discuss the genesis and reception of the works, but also answer practical questions regarding notation and performance. A critical commentary for the six string quartets will be published in a separate volume in autumn 2022.
Bartók in Vatican
We are pleased that our scores are chosen as protocol gifts.
Among others a volume of the Bartók Complete Edition has been gifted to Pope Francis by the Hungarian prime minister. The volume – published jointly by our company, and Henle Verlag, Munich – contains the Concerto for orchestra, composed during the World War II in the USA. Viktor Orbán visited Vatican City on 21st April 2022. “No one understands us in our language, so music is our only option” – stated the head of government.
The launch of the Bartók Complete Edition was announced in 2015 by our publishing house. The complete works will be published in 48 volumes according to the plan. The publications are being prepared according to the highest scientific norms, however the body text can be used by musicians also for practical purpose.
Credit: www.vaticannews.va
New Urtext edition of Bartók’s complete choral works
A new Urtext edition of Béla Bartók’s complete choral works was launched in March 2021. The three-volume edition is based on volume 9 of the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition (Z. 15009), a joint publication of G. Henle Verlag, Munich, and Editio Musica Budapest Zeneműkiadó. The lyrics in this edition are in the original languages and in the translations authorized by the composer. Literal English translations are provided in the appendix, which also includes early and alternative versions of the works.
Our edition is distinguished by absolute authenticity regarding both the musical text and the style of notation, as well as superior engraving and print quality. The edition is complete with informative prefaces (in Hungarian, English, and German) and detailed Editorial Comments (in Hungarian and English). The Comments give an overview of the textual, folk-music, and compositional sources, and provide detailed information on the performance practice of Bartók’s choral works.
The volumes have been printed on high-quality and environmentally-friendly paper.
The three volumes are available in two formats: paperback and clothbound. The paperback editions can be bought separately, while the clothbound volumes are available only together in a slipcase.
Each work included in these volumes will also be published separately during the following months.
Offprints from the new Kodály Collection
Separate edition offprints from the renewed edition of Kodály Choral Works for Mixed Voices are being published. Their format is identical to that of the complete volume, and they are printed on excellent-quality pale-yellow paper.
