Editio Musica Budapest

The present volume is a continuation to the collection 'Chamber Music for Beginners' (Z. 6915). Its pieces are only slightly more difficult than the works contained therein (string players can perform...

Ádám Kondor was born in Budapest in 1964. He completed his studies at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, and in 1994 gained his diploma in composition. His most influential teachers were Albert Simon...

Ádám Kondor compiled this series from poems written by Thomas Hardy after the age of 70, when the poet was mourning the death of his wife. According to the composer, he was fascinated by the figure of...

In this piece the musicians have not only instrumental but also acting roles. They have to walk about the performing area in accordance with a specific plan, while uttering words and sentences taken f...

This composition is a paraphrase of a work entitled 'Chi fa notte il giorno' by the contemporary Italian composer Luca Lombardi. It was given its premiere on June 1, 2003 at the Art Gallery in Budapes...

The set of eight short duets entitled Schattenwelt, Schlachtfeld was composed in 1999 and was influenced by the extraordinary clarinet-playing of Barbaros Erköse (Istambul). Employing simple stage mov...

It was the Paris premiere in 1981 of Messages of the Late R. V. Troussova that brought the world's attention to the music of György Kurtág (born 1926). The spectrum of these feminine poems in Russian...

I wanted for musicians to not be able to discuss how bad the music was during rehearsals, ' said György Kurtág (* 1926) at his own expense in reference to his works, which call for the use of orchestr...

For the performance of the work three playing scores are needed. The enclosed parts are incomplete, and serve only to help the page turning. (BMC CD 048)

The original version of the piece, Message to Frances Marie, op. 31a was composed for cello solo with two bows for the American cellist Frances Marie Uitti. The subtitle refers to the title of a compo...

The work was composed in 1992 for the 85th birthday of Kurtág's teacher, Sándor Veress. The ensemble of instruments is unusual: two basset horns and two quarter-tone pianos (the well-known predecessor...

The first performance of György Kurtág's song-cycle written to poems by Anna Akhmatova took place on January 3rd, 2009, in the Carnegie Hall, New York. In this work it is evidence of the exceptionally...

The polymath, naturalist and aesthetician Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) is an interesting figure of 18th-century German cultural history. Yet his most important work, his collection of aphor...

The work was written for the Piccoli Archi Youth Ensemble in Ny regyháza and its conductor Nándor Tóth for the 20th anniversary of the ensemble. At the festive concert on 23 October 2004 the short pie...