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Psalm Canons

Composer
Tornyai Péter
Original / Hungarian title
Zsoltár kánonok
Foreign language / English title
Psalm Canons
Subtitle
For mixed choir
Year of composition
2017
Type
Mixed choir
Instrumentation
mixed choir (S-A-T-B)
Duration
6 min
Movements, parts
1. (Introitus)
2. (´Aus tiefer Not´)
3. (´Virág az ember...´)
4. (´kühlen Bach´)
5. (Benedictio)
Text
psalm(s) / LUTHER, Martin
Language
Hungarian
Publisher / Source
Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest Ⓒ 2023, Z. 15229
Available here!
Recordings
Video recording, 2023 - Cantemus Mixed Choir, Soma Szabó (cond.) (Available on youtube.com)
Remarks, other info
In 2017, for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Péter Tornyai composed Psalm Canons, in which he sets psalm texts in the 16th-century Hungarian translations by Albert Szenczi Molnár and Luther´s Aus tiefer Not to music, creating the ideal of a new kind of "congregational song". Bach and Kurtág are the most important inspirations of the series, indicated in the titles of the individual movements: the former one is present through the canonical arrangement, and the latter through the free rhythmical notation.