Música clásica moderna para orquesta de cuerda

Ferenc Farkas arranged a handful of early Hungarian dance pieces, preserved in various late Renaissance music manuscripts, for several groups of performers. His arrangement Hungarian Dances from the 1...

This work composed in 1982 is published now in the Leggiero series. The three-movement little composition is a rewarding performance piece for school and amateur orchestras.

The stopping-places in this Musical journey are various countries of Europe, Albania, Bulgaria, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine ? each is represented in t...

The very easy transcriptions for string orchestra in the Leggierissimo series can be played by children even after just a few years of instrumental study. In the pieces the viola has been replaced by...

The work was dedicated to the Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher Jen Takács (1902-2005) for his 100th birthday. The hitherto unpublished short piece will be premiered by the Staatskapel...

The title of the piece refers to Lethe, one of the rivers of Hades, known from Greek mythology. The meaning of the world is 'oblivion' the dead souls were drinking from it in order to forget about the...

Mikrokosmos is perhaps the 20th century's most influential set of piano pieces and one of the milestones in pedagogical piano repertoire. These 153 piano pieces, organized in ascending order of diffic...

This is one of the best-known and most frequently performed works of Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000). It was written in 1961 for 4-part string orchestra (with an ad libitum double bass part), and can be per...