In our short film, András Soós, the author and the performers talk about his four-volume series of publications entitled The Microcosm of String Ensemble Music.

Bartók's Mikrokosmos is perhaps the most influential series of piano pieces of the 20th century, and one of the foundational works of piano pedagogic literature.

The Microcosm of String Ensemble Music offers 148 transcriptions from the series for playing in various string ensembles, arranged in four volumes according to difficulty.

The complete choral works of two important Hungarian composers of the twentieth century, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, are now available in an expanded and carefully corrected edition.

The new edition includes several works or versions of works that have not appeared in print before.

The publications have been edited based on standardized editorial principles, with clearly legible musical graphics, and informative prefaces and afterwords.

The series of piano pieces by György Kurtág entitled Games, 

János Bali’s exciting and inspiring work, Introduction to the Avant-garde for Recorder Players, and

György Orbán’s two-volume, completely individual Aulos: Piano Pieces for Advanced Players to Practise Polyphony:

Going far beyond any educational aim, they enrich the repertoire of contemporary music with significant, exciting, unmistakeably unique-sounding compositions.

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