SATB a cappella Choral;
Mixed Choir (SATB a
cappella)
SKU:
HL.50490228
By
Melinda Berlasz. By
Veress Sándor. EMB.
Classical. Softcover. 147
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #Z14553.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(HL.50490228).
ISBN
9790080145531. UPC:
884088531638.
7.5x10.75x0.365 inches.
Hungarian, English,
German. Sandor Veress;
Melinda
Berlasz.
Volume II
of the collected edition
of the choral works of
Veress contains seven
Hungarian folksong cycles
or cantatas, a choral
poem in Hungarian and a
choral cycle in English.
In his first creative
period (1929-1939), which
he spent in Hungary,
Sandor Veress's direct
involvement in Hungarian
folk music research
played a decisive part:
his folksong experience
gained through personal
collecting work found
expression in his first
period of composition for
mixed choir. In the
course of the 1960s,
after his emigration, he
returned on two occasions
to the a cappella mixed
choir genre: in 1962 he
wrote a piece for mixed
choir to mark the 60th
birthday of the great
Hungarian poet Gyula
Illyes (Oda Europahoz -
Ode to Europe, based on
the poem by Illyes), and
in 1967, at the request
of the Australian Radio
Company, he composed for
the 'Adelaide Singers'
chamber choir Songs of
the Seasons, a
seven-movement madrigal
cycle making exceptional
demands on the
performers, to verses by
the Australian poet
Christopher Brennan
(1870-1932).
A Choral
