Kodaly and Education Matters
Donald Macleod focuses on Kodaly's role as a music educationalist and on his legacy in general.
Kodály's life was, to an unique extent, dedicated to the music education of the Hungarian people. Donald Macleod discusses his legacy with David Vinden.
"It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain." The words of Zoltán Kodály: a composer whose commitment to the celebration of his nation's culture, and the education of his nation's children, was virtually unparalleled. In the closing programme of this week's series, Donald Macleod talks to Kodály scholar and teacher David Vinden about Kodály's role as a music educationalist, and about how his much fêted teaching 'method' works.
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Zoltán Kodály
12 Children'S Dances (On The Black Keys) [gyermektancok] -Allegretto
Performer: Ádám Fellegi.- HUNGAROTON : 31540-41.
- HUNGAROTON.
- 10.
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Zoltán Kodály
Orphan am I
Choir: Gyor Girls choir.- Hungaraton: HCD 31697.
- 13.
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Zoltán Kodály
Egyetem, Begyetem [hippity, Hoppity] For Female Voices [1938]
Conductor: Denes Szabo. Choir: Cantemus Vocal Group.- Hungaraton: HCD 31291.
- Hungaraton.
- 12.
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Zoltán Kodály
Kadar Kata [mother Listen] For Voice And Small Orchestra
Conductor: György Lehel. Singer: Marta Szirmay. Orchestra: Budapest S O.- Hungaraton: HCD 12839-40-2.
- Hungaraton.
- 8.
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Zoltán Kodály
Concerto For Orchestra
Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.- CHANDOS : CHAN-9811.
- CHANDOS.
- 2.
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Zoltán Kodály
7 Easy Children'S Choruses And 6 Humorous Canons For Children'S Chorus
Conductor: Denes Szabo. Choir: Cantemus Vocal Group.- HUNGAROTON : HCD-31291.
- HUNGAROTON.
- 5.
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Zoltán Kodály
The Hungarian Nation
Conductor: Peter Erdei. Choir: Debrecen Kodaly Chorus.- Hungaraton: HCD 32364.
- 18.
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- Fri 5 Jun 201512:00BBC Radio 3
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