Istvan Bogar

An ABRSM syllabus title, 2010-17, Grade 6-7.

The composer is an outstanding authority on brass instruments. In this work too he makes attractive and colourful use of the many sorts of character the trumpet possesses. The opening Fanfare is follo...

Here the composer has arranged Southern Slav, Albanian and Bulgarian music material. The triple time, asymmetric 5/8, 7/8, 9/8 (2+2+2+3) bars require thorough grounding in rhythm. The first movement i...

István Bogár (1937-2006) was a world-renowned Hungarian composer best known for his works for winds. He composed concertos for trumpet, trombone, tuba, two horns, trumpet and horn, as well as several...

An ABRSM syllabus title, 2010-17, Grade 3.

This splendidly instrumented work successfully combines 20th-century musical language with the antique elements deriving from its theme - for example, in the first movement we immediately find an anci...

István Bogár's series of movements intended for youngsters is colourfully instrumented, evocative music, rich in melodic invention, in character it is most closely akin to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker bal...

István Bogár's series of movements intended for youngsters is colourfully instrumented, evocative music, rich in melodic invention in character it is most closely akin to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ball...