Barna Szabó: Eight songs (Elegies)
Barna Szabó: Five Russian songs for soprano and piano
Barna Szabó (1976) is a prominent representative of his generation. He studied church music and composition, and then worked as a teacher at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, the University of Theatre and Film Arts, and the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét. Since his youth, he has considered choral singing to be of crucial importance, and he himself has sung and continues to sing in numerous choirs. The human voice is at the center of his compositions: choral works a cappella or accompanied by solo instruments, songs accompanied by piano or various kind of chamber ensembles.
He described his world as a composer and his sources of inspiration in an interview: "...yes, I am attached to and use all motifs, whether they are communal or have lost their community ('old music'), or are searching for one ('new music'), that appeal to me, that seem to be essentially archaic (…or better yet, timeless), and that are just right for the purpose of being the form of the next sound or sounds in my work."
This song cycle composed in 1998–1999, and based on poems by 19th-century and turn-of-the-century Russian poets, is an early work of the composer.
1. Ivan Bunin: And here again
2. Fyodor Tyutchev: Russia cannot be known by the mind
3. Mikhail Y. Lemontov: Demon
4. Fyodor Tyutchev: Vision
5. Mikhail Y. Lemontov: The cliff
ISMN: 979-0-801672-89-6
ASc 25-02
Barna Szabó (1976) is a prominent representative of his generation. He studied church music and composition, and then worked as a teacher at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, the University of Theatre and Film Arts, and the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét. Since his youth, he has considered choral singing to be of crucial importance, and he himself has sung and continues to sing in numerous choirs. The human voice is at the center of his compositions: choral works a cappella or accompanied by solo instruments, songs accompanied by piano or various kind of chamber ensembles.
He described his world as a composer and his sources of inspiration in an interview: "...yes, I am attached to and use all motifs, whether they are communal or have lost their community ('old music'), or are searching for one ('new music'), that appeal to me, that seem to be essentially archaic (…or better yet, timeless), and that are just right for the purpose of being the form of the next sound or sounds in my work."
This song cycle composed in 1998–1999, and based on poems by 19th-century and turn-of-the-century Russian poets, is an early work of the composer.
1. Ivan Bunin: And here again
2. Fyodor Tyutchev: Russia cannot be known by the mind
3. Mikhail Y. Lemontov: Demon
4. Fyodor Tyutchev: Vision
5. Mikhail Y. Lemontov: The cliff
ISMN: 979-0-801672-89-6
ASc 25-02
