Miklós Rózsa – Sinfonia Concertante

If you think you don’t know any music by Miklós Rózsa you are almost certainly wrong. If you’ve seen Ben Hur, he composed the soundtrack. Rózsa wrote wonderful concert music as well as composing film scores. This is one example – if you like it, I encourage you to listen to the rest of the piece, and [...]

Quote of the Day (Dezső Kosztolányi)

Idegen nyelvet lehet nagyon jól tudni, de jól soha. [Translation: "It is possible to know a foreign language very well, but never well."] – Dezső Kosztolányi in his 1922 essay “Nyelvtudás” (“Language Knowledge/Learning”)

Erno Dohnányi – Symphony No. 2 in E Major Op. 40 (1945)

If you like this piece by Hungarian composer Ernő Dohnányi, and were previously unfamiliar with his music, be sure to check out his “Variations on a Nursery Tune“!