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CATALOGUE NR.
COMPOSER & TITLE
SHORT DESCRIPTION

A-1132

Zsolt Durko:
Three English Songs
                                     
Zsolt Durko (1934–1997)

The Three English Songs (or Verses) was composed for mezzo-soprano and 12 players (of the Nash Ensemble), later the composer made a version with piano accompaniment (the score contains this version). The cycle includes My heart leaps up by Wordsworth, The sick rose by Blake and Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot. The first two songs are like a double preludium to the third one which upgrades for the main movement in length, dramatic weight as well as structural complexity. 

EdbR Kil 005

Laszlo Király:
Tres cantiones espaňolas

Laszlo Kiraly (1954- )
On a poem by Lope de Vega and two unknown poets for soprano and bassoon. The text can be sung either in Spanish or in Hungarian.

EdbR KsGy 001

Gyorgy Kosa:
Geistliche Hirtenlieder

for VOICE & PIANO (1953)

Gyorgy Kosa (1897–1984)
The four spiritual shepherds songs for tenor and piano were composed in 1953. Besides the original German text the score contains a singable English translation either.

A-1054

Laszlo Lajtha:
19 Hungarian Folksongs for voice and piano

Laszlo Lajtha (1892–1963) played an outstanding role in the 20th century Hungarian music history as a composer as well as an ethnomusicologist. He collected folk songs as his ten years older colleagues, Bartók and Kodály but he preferred researching instrumental folk music. As a significant part of his composer’s career he was deeply inspired by folk songs: he made arrangements for folk ensembles just as string quartet. He left 19 folk songs with piano accompaniment which, in spite of their similarity in genre, show an individual voice which differs from the mentioned famous contemporaries.
You find the rough translation of all the songs in English, French and German in the appendix.

A-1165

Jozsef Sari:
Frag-Mente 

Jozsef Sari (1935– )

I have never felt the Theatre of the Absurd was foreign to me; even so I didn’t think I would one day write something similar in kind. But then I was given a commission for the opening of an exhibition. This is how my song cycle Frag-Mente came to be composed in 1982. The premiere took place in Giessen in West Germany in 1983. It consists of five movements whose titles are either fragmentary (i.e. needing completion) or are partly alienated wordplays which cannot always be translated. For example right at the beginning No. 1: Rast-Los (the syllable "Los" means fate). No. 3 ... unbeantwortet; (unanswered) has wordplay on the word "lead" (Blei); in this connection we might think of the lead content of many materials. No. 5 Entscheidung? Inability to make decisions often causes us to fall into disastrous situations... The meanings of the titles of Nos. 2 and 4  are clear and require no special comment.
József Sári

A set of two playing scores

A-1009

SCHUBERT:
Winterreise
(for high voice)

A-1156

Miklós Sugár: Two Latin Hymn-Fragments

Miklós Sugár (1952– )  
                                     
The two hymn-fragments: 1. O quam admirabile, 2. Amor est vita omnium (Sancti Bernardi de Claravalle: De amore divino rhytmus). The soprano soloist is accompanied by flute, violin and piano.

Cellissimo

Csaba Szabo (1936-2003)
For soprano viola and piano.

A-1188

Ivan Madarasz: Missa brevis

Ivan Madarasz (1949– )

A Missa brevis for solo voice accompanied by three guitars or guitar orchestra (16 pages score, parts for voice and the guitars one by one).