Four male choir miniature
Published in 2019
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The miniatures written for divided tenor, baritone and bass voices, are based on the epigrammatic brevity and witty lines of two 20th century Hungarian poetry geniuses. Kosztolányi's poems are fragments of a series of death-toned poems entitled Negyven pillanatkép (Forty Snapshots). Selmeczi’s settings are text-centred, the pithy rhymes are excellently underlined by the isorhythmic text treatment. Árpád Tóth's poem "A final true word..." (from the Fragments) is more complex, with a more versatile treatment of the voices, while " Looking at women in autumn…" (also from the Fragments) is, with the exception of a few bars, practically a song for the tenor part, with a "buzzing choir" accompaniment of baritone and bass. Of particular interest are the whistle or falsetto interjections that complement the main melodic line as a real countersubject.
Mother (Dezső Kosztolányi)
Pen (Dezső Kosztolányi)
A final true word... (Árpád Tóth)
Looking at women in autumn.. (Árpád Tóth)
The miniatures written for divided tenor, baritone and bass voices, are based on the epigrammatic brevity and witty lines of two 20th century Hungarian poetry geniuses. Kosztolányi's poems are fragments of a series of death-toned poems entitled Negyven pillanatkép (Forty Snapshots). Selmeczi’s settings are text-centred, the pithy rhymes are excellently underlined by the isorhythmic text treatment. Árpád Tóth's poem "A final true word..." (from the Fragments) is more complex, with a more versatile treatment of the voices, while " Looking at women in autumn…" (also from the Fragments) is, with the exception of a few bars, practically a song for the tenor part, with a "buzzing choir" accompaniment of baritone and bass. Of particular interest are the whistle or falsetto interjections that complement the main melodic line as a real countersubject.
Mother (Dezső Kosztolányi)
Pen (Dezső Kosztolányi)
A final true word... (Árpád Tóth)
Looking at women in autumn.. (Árpád Tóth)