György Orbán: Ave Maria
Ave Maria ("sotto voce") in memoriam Selmeczi Borbála (1979-2017)
Published in 2023
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for female choir / mixed choir / voice and piano / piano
György Orbán is a dedicated master of vocal music, with a very significant oeuvre of lieder, of choral secular and sacred music. In the 1990s, he composed five settings of Hail Mary-prayer, the sixth, Ave Maria "sotto voce", was published in 2023 in memory of a young musician and friend who passed away. The musical material of the four versions (female choir, mixed choir, lied with piano accompaniment and solo piano) hardly differs from each other. Perhaps it follows from the title’s 'sotto voce' that the dynamic range of the music remains within the pp-mp range, the atmosphere of quiet whispering being interrupted only by the forte exclamation of final “Amen”.
for female choir / mixed choir / voice and piano / piano
György Orbán is a dedicated master of vocal music, with a very significant oeuvre of lieder, of choral secular and sacred music. In the 1990s, he composed five settings of Hail Mary-prayer, the sixth, Ave Maria "sotto voce", was published in 2023 in memory of a young musician and friend who passed away. The musical material of the four versions (female choir, mixed choir, lied with piano accompaniment and solo piano) hardly differs from each other. Perhaps it follows from the title’s 'sotto voce' that the dynamic range of the music remains within the pp-mp range, the atmosphere of quiet whispering being interrupted only by the forte exclamation of final “Amen”.
