To celebrate the 85th birthday of Árpád Balázs, a selection of his rich output of choral music has been published. Árpád Balázs is an outstanding artist of his generation who is known and sung not only in Hungary.

His compositional technique is unmistakably individual, characterised by a festoon of easily singable "outer-inner" voices that embrace one another, and a linear thinking deriving from Palestrina through Kodály.

Even as a young composer, he was active in the choral scene both in...