2010. February 24. 17:48 - Orpheus Harp, a new composition featuring world-class tenor
Orpheus' Harp is my latest composition that was commisioned by the Bela Bartok National Concert Hall in Budapest in 2008 to showcase both the spectacular voice of Szabolcs Brickner, a life-long friend of mine, and the world-class organ at the concert hall. The score calls for solo violin (Eurydice), harp (Orpheus' Harp) two percussionists, and organ. The performance took place in Budapest at the National Concert Hall on February 09, 2010. Watch the TV recording of the entire program in HD here!
2010. October 31. 15:40 - Bach in the Back by on WGBH Bach Hour
Wenn wir in höchstein Nöten sein, BWV 641 - Balint Karosi, organ (Richards & Fowkes organ at First Lutheran Church of Boston)
English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808 - Craig Smith, piano
Cantata BWV 38 Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir Carolyn Sampson, soprano; Daniel Taylor, alto; Mark Padmore, tenor; Peter Kooy, bass; Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Fantasy and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 - Balint Karosi, organ (Richards & Fowkes organ at First Lutheran Church of Boston)
An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653 (conclusion) - Balint Karosi, organ (Richards & Fowkes organ at First Lutheran Church of Boston)
2010. September 12. 01:36 - Rendez-vous des Grands Montreal 2010
AMOST unusual musical event is going to take place in Montreal in October 2010. Four winners in one concert! Rendez-vous des GRANDS. "Since our Canadian International Organ Competition (CIOC) is held in October every three years, it is important to keep the idea of the CIOC on the agenda and the organ center stage every year," states John Grew, artistic director of the CIOC. Grew is also the university organist at McGiIl University in Montreal and one of the founders of this new international organ competition that burst onto the world stage in 2008.
2010. July 07. 09:58 - 2010 German tour with recordings and pics
My latest tour in Germany included two of the most significant historic organs in the country. The 3 manual 55 stops 1747 Hildebrandt organ at Wenzel Church in Naumburg was designed and inaugurated by J. S. Bach himself. The 4 manual 76 stop tracker organ at Merseburg Cathedral was completed in 1855 by the influential romantic organbuilder Friederich Ladegast and is the very organ which Franz Liszt composed most of his organ works for. I have uploaded recordings of my concerts on both organs on my website, enjoy! www.karosi.org/audiovideo.php
2009. November 03. 22:15 - Bach in the Back Bay Balint's new CD release
First Lutheran Church is happy to announce to have produced a new CD by the
Minister of Music of First Lutheran Church of Boston The CD features some of the greatest organ works by J. S. Bach including the Passacaglia in C Minor , the great Trinitarian Prelude and Fugue in Eb Major and the Toccata and Fugue in F Major. The CD was sponsored by the Music Outreach program at First Lutheran Church.
Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists is considered as America's leading artist representative for concert organists. (Fanfare). They represent the finest organists from Europe and North America including James David Christie, Paul Jacobs, John Scott, vocal ensembles and much more.
2009. October 02. 16:32 - See the full review by Prof. Christoph Wolff
Exsultemus Transports to Hamburg
A review by Harvard Professor Dr. Christoph Wolff
October 1, 2009
The Exsultemus Ensemble opened its 2009-2010 Concert Season with an attractive program devoted to 17th and 18th-century sacred music from the city of Hamburg. (Three other traditional German musical centers – Darmstadt, Leipzig, and Dresden – will be featured later this season.) The program focused on the three composers who defined Hamburg’s musical life in their respective periods: Matthias Weckmann and Christoph Bernhard, the two star pupils of Heinrich Schütz, from the mid-17th century and Georg Philipp Telemann, the dominant figure in the 18th century. The juxtaposition of two distinct style periods proved to be most illuminating.
