EMB Contemporary Music

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 structure...

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 ornament...

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 moon,...

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 we...

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 Hungar...

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...

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, forceful...

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 comp...

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 Gre...

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 Berlioz...

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 o...

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 weal...

András Szollosy (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...

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...

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 Easte...