"The Calvinist Hymns concert, organised annually since 2002, is the largest musical celebration of the Calvinist Church in the Carpathian Basin. The event is held to allow concert recordings to be made of psalms and choral works from the Calvinist hymnbook sung by professional musicians, which are then made available on CD and DVD. Now numbering 370 members, the Carpathian Basin United Calvinist Choir is responsible for bringing a wealth of excellent choirmasters, soloists, chamber choirs ...and organists to the series. Year by year, the event attracts more and more "secular” music lovers and international guests. In addition to the "regulars” at this summit of Calvinist choirs - the Debrecen Kántus Choir, the Imre Palló Choral Society, the Psalterium Hungaricum, the SDG Choir, FIRESZ, and the Partium Christian University Mixed Choir - several new groups are added every year from all around the Carpathian Basin, bringing new communities and institutions into the service of Protestant church music through the Calvinist Hymns series. Among the participating choirmasters we can highlight Sándor Berkesi, János Arany, Zsófia Cseri, Tamás Bódiss, Péter Hoppál, Adrienn Beidek, Boglárka Berkesi Kárpáti, Judit Hartyányi and Kinga Süll, while the organists at the dozen concerts tied in with CD recordings so far have been János Pálúr, Csilla Alföldy-Boruss, László Fassang, László Draskóczy, Antal Kéménczy, László Varga, András Gábor Virágh, Gábor Szotyori Nagy Jnr. and Gyula Szilágyi. Soloists for the evening concerts have included Boglárka Berkesi, István Basky and Gyöngyi Écsi.
In the eleven years of the series to date, a total of 214 Calvinist psalms and hymns have been recorded on twelve albums. Some of the pieces are sung in a single vocal part for use in church services and to allow them to be sung and studied in schools. Others are performed in several vocal parts to be presented and preserved as choral masterpieces. Much work still remains for us to do as part of this ongoing service to ensure that as many as possible of the 512 hymns in the Calvinist hymnbook are recorded for the present time and for posterity. We are delighted and proud to report that the first and second albums of Calvinist Hymns (Református Énekek) have gone platinum, while the third, fourth and fifth albums are gold platters.” (Gergely Böszörményi - publisher, concert director)
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