Kodaly - Choral Works / Bartok - Cantata Profana
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4804853
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 10th December 2012
Contents
Works
Cantata Profana, BB100 Sz.94 'The Nine Splendid Stags'Hymn of Zrinyi
Laudes Organi
Missa Brevis
Pange Lingua
Psalm 114
Psalmus Hungaricus, op.13
Artists
Lajos Kozma (tenor)Elizabeth Gale (soprano)
Sally le Sage (soprano)
Hannah Francis (soprano)
Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Ian Caley (tenor)
Michael Rippon (bass)
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Tamas Daroczy (tenor)
Alexandru Agache (baritone)
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)
Gillian Weir (organ)
Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
Brighton Festival Chorus
Choir of Hungarian Radio & TV
London Symphony Orchestra
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Conductors
Istvan KerteszLaszlo Heltay
Sir Georg Solti
Works
Cantata Profana, BB100 Sz.94 'The Nine Splendid Stags'Hymn of Zrinyi
Laudes Organi
Missa Brevis
Pange Lingua
Psalm 114
Psalmus Hungaricus, op.13
Artists
Lajos Kozma (tenor)Elizabeth Gale (soprano)
Sally le Sage (soprano)
Hannah Francis (soprano)
Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Ian Caley (tenor)
Michael Rippon (bass)
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Tamas Daroczy (tenor)
Alexandru Agache (baritone)
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)
Gillian Weir (organ)
Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
Brighton Festival Chorus
Choir of Hungarian Radio & TV
London Symphony Orchestra
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Conductors
Istvan KerteszLaszlo Heltay
Sir Georg Solti
About
Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók were Hungary’s two most important composers in the 20th century. They were both friends and colleagues, working separately and together to document and preserve folk music from Hungary and its surrounding regions.
The music they collected strongly influenced their own compositions. Decca was one of the first major record companies to invest in recordings of the choral music of Kodály. Perhaps spurred by the success of István Kertész’s recording of Psalmus Hungaricus, they continued to record a number of the composer’s choral works under the direction of László Heltay.
All of these recordings are collected over a double-CD, coupled with Bartók’s Cantata Profana, one of Sir Georg Solti’s last recordings, for which he provides very moving commentary in the booklet.
‘The solo singers are all excellent as are the organist and the chorus’ - Gramophone [Kodály: Missa Brevis]
‘an invigorating performance’ - Gramophone [Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus]
‘Heltay has been astonishingly successful in inspiring Benjamin Luxon (in admirable form) and his fresh-toned choir to the fervour and sensitivity they show in this patriotic work’ - Gramophone [Kodály: Hymn of Zrinyi]
‘Heltay conducts his chorus in a broad, sweeping performance that is impressive' - Gramophone [Kodály: Pange Lingua]
Contents:
Zoltan Kodaly
- Psalmus Hungaricus, Op.13
Lajos Kozma (tenor), Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Brighton Festival Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra / Istvan Kertesz
- Missa Brevis
- Pange Lingua
- Psalm 114, from the Geneva Psalter
Elizabeth Gale (soprano), Sally le Sage (soprano), Hannah Francis (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Ian Caley (tenor), Michael Rippon (bass)
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ), Gillian Weir (organ)
Brighton Festival Chorus / Laszlo Heltay
- Hymn of Zrinyi
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Brighton Festival Chorus / Laszlo Heltay
- Laudes Organi: Fantasia on a 12th century sequence
Gillian Weir (organ), Brighton Festival Chorus / Laszlo Heltay
Bela Bartok
- Cantata Profana, BB.100 (Sz.94)
Tamas Daroczy (tenor), Alexandru Agache (baritone), Choir of Hungarian Radio & TV
Budapest Festival Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti
The music they collected strongly influenced their own compositions. Decca was one of the first major record companies to invest in recordings of the choral music of Kodály. Perhaps spurred by the success of István Kertész’s recording of Psalmus Hungaricus, they continued to record a number of the composer’s choral works under the direction of László Heltay.
All of these recordings are collected over a double-CD, coupled with Bartók’s Cantata Profana, one of Sir Georg Solti’s last recordings, for which he provides very moving commentary in the booklet.
‘The solo singers are all excellent as are the organist and the chorus’ - Gramophone [Kodály: Missa Brevis]
‘an invigorating performance’ - Gramophone [Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus]
‘Heltay has been astonishingly successful in inspiring Benjamin Luxon (in admirable form) and his fresh-toned choir to the fervour and sensitivity they show in this patriotic work’ - Gramophone [Kodály: Hymn of Zrinyi]
‘Heltay conducts his chorus in a broad, sweeping performance that is impressive' - Gramophone [Kodály: Pange Lingua]
Contents:
Zoltan Kodaly
- Psalmus Hungaricus, Op.13
Lajos Kozma (tenor), Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Brighton Festival Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra / Istvan Kertesz
- Missa Brevis
- Pange Lingua
- Psalm 114, from the Geneva Psalter
Elizabeth Gale (soprano), Sally le Sage (soprano), Hannah Francis (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Ian Caley (tenor), Michael Rippon (bass)
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ), Gillian Weir (organ)
Brighton Festival Chorus / Laszlo Heltay
- Hymn of Zrinyi
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Brighton Festival Chorus / Laszlo Heltay
- Laudes Organi: Fantasia on a 12th century sequence
Gillian Weir (organ), Brighton Festival Chorus / Laszlo Heltay
Bela Bartok
- Cantata Profana, BB.100 (Sz.94)
Tamas Daroczy (tenor), Alexandru Agache (baritone), Choir of Hungarian Radio & TV
Budapest Festival Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti
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