Kodaly: Psalmus hungaricus, Op. 13 / Missa brevis / Pange lingua / etc (with Bartok - Cantata Profana 'The Nine Enchanted Stags')
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ZOLTAN KODALY
Kodaly: Psalmus hungaricus, Op. 13 / Missa brevis / Pange lingua / etc (with Bartok - Cantata Profana 'The Nine Enchanted Stags')
Tamas Daroczy, Alexandru Agache, Elizabeth Gale, Sally le Sage, Hannah Francis, Benjamin Luxon, etc / Brighton Festival Chorus, László Heltay, etc
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 20 July 2014
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.
"Kertesz's intense Psalmus Hungaricus is the keeper here but Heltay's Missa Brevis and Weir playing the rarely heard Laudes Organi are among other considerable valuables." (Gramophone)
"The solo singers are all excellent as are the organist and the chorus" (Gramophone on Missa Brevis)
Tracks:
Bartók:
Cantata Profana 'The Nine Enchanted Stags', BB 100, Sz. 94
Tamas Daroczy (tenor) & Alexandru Agache (baritone)
Choir of Hungarian Radio & TV & Budapest Festival Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Kodály:
Psalmus hungaricus, Op. 13
Lajos Kozma (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir & Brighton Festival Chorus, István Kertész
Missa brevis
Elizabeth Gale, Sally le Sage, Hannah Francis (sopranos), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Ian Caley (tenor), Michael Rippon (bass), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ) & Gillian Weir (organ)
Brighton Festival Chorus, László Heltay
Pange lingua
Elizabeth Gale, Sally le Sage, Hannah Francis (sopranos), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Ian Caley (tenor), Michael Rippon (bass), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ) & Gillian Weir (organ)
Brighton Festival Chorus, László Heltay
Geneva Psalm 114
Elizabeth Gale, Sally le Sage, Hannah Francis (sopranos), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Ian Caley (tenor), Michael Rippon (bass), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ) & Gillian Weir (organ)
Brighton Festival Chorus, László Heltay
Hymn of Zrínyi
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Brighton Festival Chorus, László Heltay
Laudes organi
Fantasia on a 12th century sequence
Gillian Weir (organ)
Brighton Festival Chorus, László Heltay
