Christmas Waiting Concert of the Choir of NSZL

 

National Széchényi Library cordially invites you and your friends to the Christmas Waiting Concert of the Library Choir to be held in the Franciscan Church of St. John of Capistrano at Rózsadomb and starting at 5 p.m. on December 11, 2016.

Conductors: MÁRIA ECKHARDT and ÁGNES GUPCSÓ
Contributors: KRISZTINA PÁRKAI (flute) – GYÖNGYVÉR GUPCSÓ (piano)

PROGRAM

Zoltán Kodály: Advent Song
Verbum caro factum est (from the Igló fragment)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Alma redemptoris mater
Tomás Luis de Victoria: O magnum mysterium
Vincent Novello: A grace (double canon)
Joseph Haydn: Psalm 26
Joseph Haydn: Abendlied zu Gott

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita A minor (BWV 1013)

Lajos Bárdos: Hungarian Magnificat
Franz Liszt: Christus ist geboren
Franz Liszt: Ave Maria (A major)
György Orbán: Nunc dimittis
Francis Poulenc: Hodie Christus natus est

Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Chaconne

Christmas Songs of Nations:

Sound of Trombone (English, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy adaptation)
Who’s Sleeping There (English, John Stainer adaptation)
Come, Bless God (English fanfare, Jeremiah Clarke)
Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen (German, Michael Praetorius adaptation)
Schönster Herr, Jesu (German, Max Reger adaptation)
In dulci jubilo (German, S.P. adaptation)
Extend Oh, Jesus (Swedish, Árpád Fasang adaptation)
Ring Christmas Bells (Ukrainian, Mykola Leontonovich adaptation)
Christmas Lullaby (Hungarian, Lajos Bárdos adaptation)
Let us give thanks now (French, Lajos Bárdos adaptation)
Camille Saint-Saëns: Tollite hostias (closing choir of Christmas oratorio)

Free admission. Donations for the benefit of the Choir are most welcome!
Venue: Franciscan Church of St. John of Capistrano at Rózsadomb 4 Törökvész St. H-1022 Budapest (The church stands at the corner of Törökvész and Tövis streets, it can be approached by bus # 11. You have to get off at Eszter utca stop.)

Invitation card (in Hungarian)

Choir website (in Hungarian)