EMB Contemporary Music

The work (dating from 1992), similarly to the earlier composition entitled Journey to Ixtlan, was composed by Sáry to the poem 'El viaje definitivo' by the famous Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, this...

The work was composed in memory of the Hungarian cimbalom player Ildikó Vékony, who died in an accident in autumn 2009. It is based on an earlier piece for solo cimbalom Slow and Brisk (Sáry László: D...

Ádám Kondor was born in Budapest in 1964. He completed his studies at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, and in 1994 gained his diploma in composition. His most influential teachers were Albert Simon...

Ádám Kondor compiled this series from poems written by Thomas Hardy after the age of 70, when the poet was mourning the death of his wife. According to the composer, he was fascinated by the figure of...

In this piece the musicians have not only instrumental but also acting roles. They have to walk about the performing area in accordance with a specific plan, while uttering words and sentences taken f...

This composition is a paraphrase of a work entitled 'Chi fa notte il giorno' by the contemporary Italian composer Luca Lombardi. It was given its premiere on June 1, 2003 at the Art Gallery in Budapes...

The set of eight short duets entitled Schattenwelt, Schlachtfeld was composed in 1999 and was influenced by the extraordinary clarinet-playing of Barbaros Erköse (Istambul). Employing simple stage mov...

The composer writes about his work: The piece was written for the 2006 Spring Festival. The wording of the commission requested me to try to express what a Mozart opera means to our era. It was as a b...

Sutraecitations is vocal music composed for tenor (soprano) or bariton (mezzo-soprano) voice, three clarinets, the amplified sounds of piano, an amplifier, loudspeakers, two tuned glasses, and unident...

This composition written in 2002 has five movements (I: a sort of canon, II: interlude 1, III: (hexameter), IV: interlude 2, V: false copy). Three of the songs composed to verses by Lajos Parti Nagy e...

A Desert March is a protest march and a requiem for European musical culture. This seemingly endless march carries with it subdued or disfigured Western art music quotations (Brahms, Schubert, Beethov...

The piano series entitled Album leaves is an open piece, like an imaginary keepsake album which is continually added to, and the pages are connected through the owner of the album. The movements that...

There s a woman. She loves me. The formal devices in Péter Esterházy s book Egy n ( A Woman) inspired this piano piece. How many ways can a sentence be continued? How many solutions can there be to an...

This work, composed in 1971, was intended for professional performers. It was written with post-Webern, free twelve-tone technique its sound is characterized by frequent use of all twelve notes in the...

Quintet for three performers was commissioned by the Trio D'Echo. Its strange title refers to the constant, equivalent fivepart nature of the two outside movements, which use the same musical material...

The composer wrote this piece while still a third-year student at the Music Academy. The basis of it is a formula consisting of 9 notes, created by coding as notes a Christian name and various nicknam...

The title refers to image-patterns of summer flowers and vegetation of the Northern Canadian tundra when viewed from a low-flying aircraft. Some characteristic titles among the eleven movements includ...

This short, metaphorical work captures the moment when a person casts a summative glance over the past, takes final leave of all that has happened and peers with cautious hope into the future, which w...

This composition for soprano and chamber ensemble was inspired by the incomparably beautiful poem El viaje definitivo by the Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for litera...

Linked to expressive, passionate verses by Albert Ehrenstein (1886?1950) is a quiet meditation by an unknown 16th-century English poet on the relationship between music and the night. Two languages, t...