Kodály Zoltán by Bató József, 1911, oil on canvas, 80x64 cm

varietas:

Molnár Edit: Kodály Zoltán (1882. december 16. – 1967) a Bartók Archívum megnyitásán, 1961

Kodály Zoltán - Pünkösdölő (Pentecost)

Kodály Zoltán Children’s Choir, Graz, 2008

Kodály Zoltán (born 16 December 1882) - Esti dal (Evening song)

Jeunesses Musicales Choir, dir. Ugrin Gábor

Happy 129th birthday.

Kodály Zoltán - Missa Brevis: Introitus, Kyrie, Gloria

recorded in 1944, dir: Kodály Zoltán

(click here to listen to Agnus Dei and Ite Missa est from the same mass)

Geneva Psalm CL by Kodály Zoltán

Angelica Girls’ Choir cond. by Gráf Zsuzsanna

Szép könyörgés (Beseeching) by Kodály Zoltán

Ifjú Zenebarátok Kórusa cond. by Ugrin Gábor

Kodály Zoltán - Budavári Te Deum (1939), pt 1

Kodály Zoltán - Budavári Te Deum (1939), pt 2

Kodály Zoltán - Psalmus Hungaricus pt 1

G vegyeskari műhely, Pannon Filharmonikusok Pécs, Horváth István (tenor), cond. by Czifra János

recorded in the Cathedral of Pécs, 2010

The text is based on the gloss of Psalm 55, “Give ear to my prayer, oh God,” by sixteenth century poet, preacher, and translator Mihály Vég. Uncommonly, Kodály chose a sacred text to mark a secular occasion; the libretto’s passages of despair and call to God provide opportunities for the composer to address Hungary’s immediate, tragic past and disastrous present. The music reflects the nation’s crisis during and after World War I (the dissolution of Greater Hungary), and the text draws a parallel between the sorrows of King David and the suffering of the Magyars in Ottoman Hungary.

(wikipedia)