Between February 2 and 8, Benjamin Appl and Pierre-Laurent Aimard recorded songs by Schubert, Brahms and György Kurtág in the studio of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.

György Kurtág was also present throughout the recording, and even sat down at the piano for two songs.
Excerpt from Brahms' Sonntag (recorded during the rehearsal):

After the concert performances in Hamburg and Cologne in 2023, György Kurtág Kurtág's opera based on the text of Samuel Beckett will be performed five times in the Theater Dortmund in March and May.

This volume of works for children's and female voices is an extended and revised edition. Containing a total of 59 compositions, three of were not included in earlier editions, it is the most complete and most authentic edition of Kodály’s choral works for children’s and female voices to be published thus far. It has been edited based on uniform principles, contains easy-to-read, first-rate musical scores, and includes an informative Epilogue written by the editor Péter Erdei.

We salute Péter Eötvös on his 80th birthday with the recording of Dialog mit Mozart - Da Capo für Orchester.  Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra is conducted by the composer. (BMC Records 284) More about the work here.

'About Time' is an exciting meeting of old samples and modern minimal music elements.

TIME - LIFE - DEATH - DARKNESS - LIGHT: the eternal themes of the arts. These phenomena are especially important in music since the visual sensations that can be created by musical sounds have been preoccupying composers for centuries. The musical perception of segmented and unsegmented time - as well as their changing musical philosophical approaches from age to age - have received special attention in contemporary music since the emergence of the experimental musical wave at the end of the 20th century.

The choral works of LAJOS BÁRDOS (1899–1986) belong to the most valuable part of 20th century Hungarian music history. A former student of Zoltán Kodály - composer, musicologist and teacher - he was one of the founders of the Hungarian choral movement and one of its leading representatives until his death.

We bid farewell to István Láng, Erkel and Bartók-Pásztory Prize-winning composer and former teacher at the Liszt Academy, who died at the age of 91. His memory and his diverse oeuvre, which encompassed many genres, will be cherished.

György Kurtág's one-act opera, based on Samuel Beckett's play, has so far been performed in six countries: in Milan (2018), Amsterdam (2019), Valencia (2020), Paris (2022), Antwerp (2022) and London (2023).  The work is performed in Budapest at the Palace of Arts (12th), followed by the German premiere at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg (15th) and the Filharmonie in Cologne (20th).

A selection of Máté Balogh's new choral works can be heard on October 4 at the House of Hungarian Music.

Ryan Wigglesworth, the conductor of the London premiere of Fin de partie, came to Hungary on 11 July and worked with Kurtág for three days at the Budapest Music Center to prepare the performance.