Béla Bartók Male Choir
Choir marathon of Liszt’s works

Choir marathon of Liszt’s works 
Photographer: Andrea  Felvégi / Müpa

Béla Bartók Male Choir
Choir marathon of Liszt’s works

Sacred Heart Jesuit Church

12 October, 2024 | 4.00 pm

Free programme

The concert is free, but pre-registration is required. Registration closed on 11 October, 7 pm. The remaining free seats in the church can be taken on a first come, first served basis.

Liszt: Gottes ist der Orient
Liszt: Szekszárd Mass – Kyrie
Liszt: Über allen gipfeln ist Ruh’
Liszt: Ave Maris Stella – for organ
Liszt: Weimar Folk Song
Liszt: Folk Song –for organ
Mosonyi: Tavaszi dal (Spring Song)
Liszt: Tu es Petrus – for organ
Liszt: Szekszárd Mass – Sanctus and Benedictus
Erkel: Buzgó kebellel (With a Fervent Bosom)
Liszt: A magyarok Istene (God of the Hungarians)
Featuring: Jennyfer Balatoni-Schultz, Attila Janó – voice, Dr Sándor Balatoni – organ
Conductor: Dr Tibor Hoffner, Dr Tamás Lakner

When in 1848, after a long time, Liszt returned to his birthplace, Doborján (Raiding), he also visited the Franciscan priest, Stanislaus (Szaniszló) Albach, who served in Kismarton (Eisenstadt). This was where he started composing his Mass for male choir with organ accompaniment. He later revised the work for the 1868 consecration of the Újváros church in Szekszárd. ‘More than ever, I insist on the most perfect precision, clarity, suitability and transparency of the musical language,’ he wrote to Baron Antal Augusz. In the end, the work was not performed at the time, and over a century had to pass before the Mass could be heard in Szekszárd, in 1978. The composition was popular in Liszt’s lifetime and was presented in a number of European cities. At the Choir Marathon, along with a few movements of the Mass and some of Liszt’s emblematic pieces for male choir, the Bartók Béla Male Choir will perform works by two of his Hungarian contemporaries, Ferenc Erkel and Mihály Mosonyi. Mosonyi, who was held in high esteem by Liszt, wrote his Spring Song for the Pest-Buda Choral Society, who premiered it at their debut concert in 1865.

Sacred Heart Jesuit Church
1085 Budapest, Mária utca 25.

Sacred Heart Jesuit Church

12 October, 2024 | 4.00 pm

Free programme

The concert is free, but pre-registration is required. Registration closed on 11 October, 7 pm. The remaining free seats in the church can be taken on a first come, first served basis.

Sacred Heart Jesuit Church
1085 Budapest, Mária utca 25.

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