László Borsody, Barnabás Dukay, Lajos Huszár, Gábor Kósa, Balázs Szunyogh, János Vajda

condition (record/cover): NM / NM + rare insert included.

A different register from the New Music Studio's radical experiments - and from the electronic music anthologies - this 1982 Hungaroton LP gathers six composers who represent the generation just entering the scene. The works here were written in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the composers ranging in age from late twenties to early thirties, and the LP's character is correspondingly diverse: six distinct voices, six different relationships to the Hungarian new music tradition they had absorbed.

Barnabás Dukay's In memoriam Lucretii, for three flutes and three guitars, is among the most striking pieces on the album - Dukay had been connected with the New Music Studio and brought its contemplative rigor to a chamber formation that produces an unusual quality of sustained resonance. János Vajda's Tesztek (Tests) and Balázs Szunyogh's Duets engage with post-serial technique in different modes. László Borsody's Sonata mondo and Gábor Kósa's percussion work Zsvuhu-brubb-brugg explore instrumental texture as primary material. Lajos Huszár's Musica concertante, for a large mixed ensemble, closes the LP with the most expansive formal statement of the six.

The title is exact and modest: young Hungarian composers, in 1982, writing music for Hungaroton. The series provided a continuous archive of where Hungarian composition was at every point in its development. Original pressing with notes in Hungarian, English, German, and Russian.