An album picking from the vast oeuvre of the now 74 years old Hungarian composer giant, Zoltan Jeney.

Renowned Hungarian composer Zoltan Jeney, born in 1943, studied composition with Zoltan Pongracz at the Zoltan Kodaly Music School in Debrecen (1957-1961), with Ferenc Farkas at the Ferenc Liszt Conservatoire in Budapest (1961-1966), and with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, on the postgraduate composition course (1967-1968).
In 1970 at the instigation of Albert Simon he founded the New Music Studio with Péter Eötvös, Zoltán Kocsis, Laszlo Sary and Laszlo Vidovszky. Between 1972 and 1990 this was the most important forum for progressive music in Hungary.
One of the main threads in Jeney's musical thinking is the transcribing of extramusical material (e.g. texts, chess games, meteorological data, telex messages, fractal series) into musical processes. Between 1975 and 1984 he sang in the Schola Hungarica choir conducted by Laszo Dobszay and Janka Szendrei: this encounter with the musical practice of Gregorian plain chant had a decisive effect on his thinking as a composer.
His works include orchestral compositions, chamber works, songs, choral works, electronic and computer pieces, compositions written together with other composers, and incidental music for theatre and film. In 2005 he completed his monumental oratorio Funeral Rite, which he had been working on continuously since 1987.

Track Listing

• Wohin' 2013
• Heraclitus in H
• Heraclitian Tear-drop
• Heraclitus Adverbial
• 'which half is never the same''
• Consolazione (something lost: echo)
• Songs of Innocence and Experience
• Pavane

Additional Details

Label: BMC Records

Genre: Classical

Language: English

Run Time: 59:14 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 09/08/17

UPC: 5998309302404