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In February 1996. two artistic groups in Fejér County decided to give a concert as a respect of the Day of Music. (They performed Orff: Carmina Burana four times) After the success, they agreed that in every Palm Sunday they were going to give an oratoric concert in Dunaújváros, than in Székesfehérvár and going to record the concerts to CD. After listening this CD record please accept our invitation to the traditional Easter concert on Palm Sunday in Dunaújváros or the next day in Székesfehérvár. Your participation is highly appriciated in the name of the artists:

Gerencsér Tamás President of the Mixed Choir

The greatest representative of the chech national music was born on 8th of September 1841 in Nelahozeves. He attended the organ school in Praga and had his first performance in 11st of November 1857 in the Cecilia Orchestra as a violinist. He was given an austrian state scholarship 18 years later. In 1878 he conducted his own work for the first time. He visited England in 1884 two times. He was a music teacher in the Conservatorie in Praga. He got a degree of doctor of music in Cambridge University in 1891. He accepted the invitation of Mrs. Jeanette Thumber and became the director of New York Music Conservatorie in 1892. In 1901 he was member of austrian "förendiház" and one year later he became the director of the Praga Conservatorie. He died on 1st of May 194 in Praga.

"The sorrowful mother stood there". This is a sequence that is likely originates from Jacopo da Todi (1220-1306) a franciscan in the 12nd century crying for Christ representing Mary's mourning. (Translated to Hungarian by Mihály Babits). Its strophes are well constructed, each of them consist of three trochaic dimeter. This text has been worked up by several musicians, the most well known pieces are: work of Palestrina, Penderecki's a capella, Rossini's oratorio.

He wrote several successful pieces in the 2nd half of the 1870's (for example duets, slavic dances), during this period he had some blows in his private life. He soon lost his three children (Jozefa died two days after her birth, the 11 months old Ruzena swollowed phosphor, 3 months later Otakar died of chicken pox.) He wrote the Stabat Mater during the mourning that he had began to write 3 years before. In the Royal Albert Hall, London in 1884 he conducted his own work that was performed by a choir with 840 members and and an orchestra with 160 musicians. The audience reached 12000, public ovated, and english papers praised the check art and Dvorak's genius the next day. Dvorak was invited to Budapest in 1882 to give a concert. Dvorak wrote "I'm glad to get acquinted with Budapest." in his letter written to his parents. Six years later in Apryl 1888 he accepted the invitation of Sándor Erkel the director of the Opera House and the Filharmonic Society in Hungary. That time he conducted the Filharmonic Orchestra performing his own work: Stabat Mater.

A singer with Liszt and Bartók Award, solist of the Hungarian State Opera House. Her repertoire comprises the most significant pieces of opera literature. First she met with success in USA New Yersey and in the Carnegie Hall in a competition singing Nabucco. She has got the chance to work with conductors such as Gardelli, Simonov. Besides Japan and New Zeland, she has given numerous concerts in all countries in Europe, the audience could have heard her in the work of Verdi Requiem and Beethoven Missa Solemn several times.

A singer with Liszt Award, soloist of the Hungarian Stat Opera House. Her repertoire comprises the most significant pieces of the opera literature (Carmen, Azucena, Ulrica, etc.) She performs songs and oratorios in Hungary and abroad as well (US, Australia, Japan, and nearly all countries of Europe). Besides many LPs, she has released two solo CDs as well.

He was born in Transylvania, he graduated from The Kolozsvár Music Academy in 1980. Since then he had been the member of Kolozsvár Opera House for 8 years then he has been a soloist of the Hungarian State Opera House since 1989. He was given several awards in international singing competitions. (Italy - Lucca, Japan - Tokyo, etc.) He has given concerts in the vast majority of Europe and has been invited by famous foreign orchestras too. Last time in february he worked together with the Berlin Orchestra conducted by György Solti.

He was given a scholarship of the Milano Scala where he made his debut as an opera singer. He has got performances in Hungary as a member of the Hungarian State Opera House. He has been invited to several foreign festivals (Flandrischen Festival, Bodensee Festspielen, Tivoli Festival, etc.) and he made his first debut in Portland, USA. He has given numerous concerts since 1987 in german and swiss theaters. Several radio and CD records were released of him through the world.

Alba Regia Symphonic Orchestra was formed in 1913. as one of the oldest orchestras in the country, from professors of the Music Training School. Since then this orchestra is the base of the whole musical life of the city. The orchestra lived up the musical demands of the city in various ways. Since 1973 it is part of the Vörösmarty Theatre, and since 1993 after the chamber music past, has been operating as a symphonic orchestra. The basis of the orchestra's current repertoire consists of the most important pieces of classical and romantic music. However, they often perform compositions of the present century too. In the past 80 years the most important leaders of the orchestra have been Laszló Hermann, Rudolf Borlói, István Ella and Kálmán Zábovszky. Most famous guest artists: Annie Fischer, Dénes Kovács, József Simándy, Albert Kocsis, The Boy Choir of the Aachen Cathedral, Thom Eitelfriedrich conductor. Most important tours: numerous times in Germany and Frankfurt, Bremen, Bad Herzfeld, Münster, Schwabis Gründ and Vienna.

He was born in Budapest, 1952. He studied composition and conducting at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy. He worked as a cnductor at the Symphonic Orchestra of Honvéd Art Ensemble, at the Békéscsaba Symphonic Orchestra. As a guest he conducted the Symphonic Orchestra of Hungarian Radio and Television and the MAV Symphonic Orchestra. He taught at the Hungarian Theater motion Picture Academy for 13 years. Since 1991 he has been leading Alba Regia Symphonic Orchestra. He has won many composer awards, e.g. in 1986 at the Budapest Spring Festival, in 1988 at Arezzo Choir Competitionm in 1991 at the Hungarian Radio. He was given twice Kodály and also twice Soros Scholarship. In 1992 he was awarded the Erkel award.