Christmas Concert

On Thursday 12 December at 16:00, the Faculty of Teacher Education and Early Childhood Education of ELTE organises a Christmas concert in the Ceremonial Hall (room 200, 2nd floor).

We look forward to welcoming you!

PROGRAMME:

Mixed chamber choir:

• Georg Friedrich Händel: Christmas Carol - Rejoice, O World!
• John Francis Wade: Adeste fideles - Come, O ye faithful - Christmas Carol
• László Rezessy: Whom many a happy shepherd has praised - Hungarian polyphonic setting of a 14th century song (Quem pastores laudavere)
• Lajos Bárdos: Well, my soul! - 18th century arrangement of a church song
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum - excerpt in a mixed chorus arrangement in Hungarian

Accompanied on the piano by Anto-Antonte-Christina Kriszta

Solo folk song:

• Kinga Mátyus, student of a kindergarten teacher, sings Christmas folk songs

Flute solo:

• Christmas Cradle Song; When the Virgin Wraps It Up - Christmas folk songs arranged by Ferenc Farkas: sung by Zsófia Bíró (second year kindergarten student)

Accompanied on the piano by Magdolna Szabadi

Soloists and chamber choir of students in the field of vocal culture:

• Renaissance madrigal by an unknown Spanish master: Jótanács
• George Frideric Handel: Let us sing in silence (sung by Eszter Borsó)
• Pál Esterházy: Jesu dulcedo from the series Harmonia caelestis (sung by Kinga Joó)
• 18th century flower: They stole my heart, arranged by Aurél Kern (sung by Gergely Nógrádi)
• XVI-XVII century flower: The High Rock, arranged by Pál Járdányi (sung by Ida Schwarcz)
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Sprich ja zu meinen Taten - chorale from Cantata 194
• Béborúla, már elmula by Aurél Kern (sung by Balázs Petrecz)
• Zöld erdőben - Transylvanian folk song from the collection of folk songs by István Bartalus, arranged by Aurél Kern (sung by Virág Verseghi-Nagy)
• Ablakomba, ablakomba - Hungarian folk song by Béla Bartók (sung by Zsófia Szigeti)
• Lement a nap - Hungarian folk song by Jenő Ádám (sung by Lenke Sass)

Accompanied on the piano by Köncse Kriszta

A performance by the students of the folk-dance group led by Eszter Czine

Female choir:

• Henry Purcell: Pastor, Pastor - Duet from the opera King Arthur
• Compilation of canons
• Gyula Kertész: I like it - folk song arrangement
• Michael Praetorius: Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen - German Christmas Carol
• Lajos Bárdos: The angel sings - for the Hungarian people
• Hungarian and European Christmas Carols
• Gabriel Fauré: Tantum ergo - Hymn to St Thomas Aquinas

Accompanied on the piano by János Döbrössy