The Children s and Female Choruses were composed in a single burst of creative activity at the zenith of Bartók s career, in the summer of 1935, between such masterpieces as the String Quartet No. 5 a...
Dotzauer was a trained musician who wrote an opera, symphonies, overtures, a Mass, concertos and chamber music. Of his extensive life-work the abundance of educational compositions has proved to be of...
La méthode de Julius Weißenborn, Fagottstudien für Anfänger (Études pour bassoniste débutant) est un élément indispensable au répertoire de tout bassoniste. Comme matériel pédagogique auxiliaire, il p...
From 1906 on Béla Bartók was collecting folksongs on a regular basis. It was in 1907, during his first collecting trip to Transylvania, that he jotted down those three melodies in Gyergyóteker patak,...
A Panorama of Songs fills a want that has been felt for decades. A selection of songs in six European languages from the 16th to the mid-20th century encompassing every musical period, it seeks to hel...
The arrangements included in the present volume reflect the first musical impressions of my childhood. In their harmonisations reminiscences of some turns heard at my parent's home can be detected spo...
Bartók's two- and three-part choruses for children's and female voices, is his best-known choral cycle worldwide. His encounter with folk texts was the direct source of inspiration for his writing of...
Lajos Bárdos (1899-1986), compositeur, musicologue, enseignant et chef de chœur, a jeté, avec Kodály, les bases de la musique chorale hongroise du XXe siècle. Grâce à son travail de chef de chœur, il...