Editio Musica Budapest

Hungaroton HCD 12748

This edition was prepared with the assistance of Lajos Bárdos.

The sacred choral works of Lajos Bárdos, more than a decade after the composer's death, are being performed more and more often worldwide. These pieces, among which every type is represented, from the...

The composition for eleven homogeneous choirs was written between 1989 and 2005. These pieces, easy to sing but written in the present-day musical idiom, can be performed by either children?s or femal...

Il compositore, direttore di coro, musicologo ed educatore musicale Lajos Bárdos nacque il 1° ottobre 1899 a Budapest e studiò composizione con Zoltán Kodály all'Accademia musicale di Budapest. Come d...

The sacred choral works of Lajos Bárdos, more than a decade after the composer?s death, are being performed more and more often worldwide. These pieces, among which every type is represented, from the...

The noted Hungarian choirmaster and composer, born in 1930, composed this short, jubilant choral work to the Latin text of Psalm 98 (97 in many English translations). Written in 2013 for the 23rd Inte...

Composed in 1948, Kodály s compelling Geneva Psalm 50 uses the original psalm tune as a cantus firmus while adapting the original Calvinist psalter s rhythms to the Hungarian language. In addition to...

Liszt composed the Missa Solennis in 1855 for the consecration of the Basilica in Esztergom. It is usually called the 'Graner Messe' after 'Gran', the comtemporary German name Esztergom. The first per...

The Coronation Mass was composed by Liszt for the coronation of King Franz Joseph I and Queen Elisabeth. The first performance of the work took place on June 8, 1867 at the Mathias Church at Buda. Als...