This concert reunites the Brighton Festival Chorus with their founder, the exceptional choral master Laszlo Heltay.
Exiled Hungarian conductor Heltay set up the Festival Chorus 40 years ago and remained music director for the following 27 years.
During this time, the Chorus formed long and close associations with a number of leading orchestras and conductors including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Lord Menuhin, who was the Chorus's president until his death.
Heltay studied in Hungary under Zoltan Kodly, and helped write the choral parts for his Missa Brevis, which were completed in the cellars of the Budapest Opera House as the musicians hid from the invading Russian army.
The Brighton Festival Chorus will join Laszlo in this moving performance of Kodaly's Missa Brevis which also features the newly-restored 1936 dual-purpose Brighton Dome Organ.
The concert continues in full Hungarian spirit, with other works by Liszt, Kodly and Bartok (born 125 years ago this year).
Starts: 8pm. Tickets: £28.50, £23, £18, £13, £10.
Supported by Dunard Fund
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