Choral Works - Miklós Kocsár / Cantemus - Childrens Choir of Nyíregyháza / Pro Musica - Girls Choir of Nyíregyháza / Directed by Dénes Szabó / Hungaroton Classic / Audio CD 1997

UPC 5991813171023

HCD31710

MADE IN HUNGARY

TOTAL TIME: 67:24

Miklós Kocsár was born in Debrecen on December 21, 1933. In his childhood he began to play the piano, but he pursued regular music studies only later, at the Debrecen Conservatoire, as a pupil of Emil Szabó. From 1954-59 he studied composition with Ferenc Farkas at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. At the beginning of the following decade he married the choir conductor and music teacher Ildikó Herboly, a prominent exponent of the Kodály method.

His career began with chamber music, especially music for wind instruments. He wrote songs, cantatas, masses, oratorios, orchestral pieces and solo instrumental pieces, but a very considerable proportion of his œuvre consists of choral compositions. His works are sung worldwide; he is a celebrated composer for choirs, guest of honour at choir competitions. Many of his choral pieces were composed to verses by Hungarian poets; at different periods of his life the works of different poets have occupied his attention. He composed his works for children's choir to verses by Sándor Weöres; in his pieces for female and mixed choirs he has used verses by Gyula Juhász, László Nagy, Imre Csanádi and Sándor Kányádi, among others. Characteristic features of his compositions are his quest for beauty of sound and his insistence on strict formal proportions.

Tracklist:

[1- 16] Childrens Choruses on poems by Imre Csanádi, books 1-4

[17-18] Cat and Dog

[19-21] Three Female Choruses on poems by Sándor Kányádi

[22] Midsummer Night Trip

[23-25] Three Female Choruses on poems by László Nagy

[26] Salve Regina

[27-32] Six Female Choruses on poems by Carl Sandburg

[33] Someone is walking on the treetops

[34] Fire Cithers

"Cantemus" Children's Choir of Nyíregyháza 1-18

"Pro Musica" Girl's Choir of Nyíregyháza 19-34

Directed by Dénes Szabó