The highlighted Gregorian singing melos in the work, as well as psalmodic declamation elements, are woven into the beginning sections and then gradually dissipate in the harmonic current. In this way, the compositional resolution relates to the concept and content of the idea, in other words, the requiem Lux aeterna and Libera me texts are used to project an individual consciousness, which slowly melts into another – the dimension of the afterlife. In this different space the existing content and text are reflected to us from the other side (the Latin text fragments are heard in inverse).
Lux æterna luceat eis, Domine:
Cum Sanctis tuis in æternum:
quia pius es.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine:
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Cum Sanctis tuis in æternum:
quia pius es.
Libera me:
Libera me, Domine, de morte æterna, in die illa tremenda
Quando cœli movendi sunt et terra
Dum veneris iudicare sæculum per ignem.

Tremens factus sum ego, et timeo, dum discussio venerit, atque ventura ira
Quando cœli movendi sunt et terra.

Dies illa, dies iræ, calamitatis et miseriæ, dies magna et amara valde
Dum veneris iudicare sæculum per ignem.

Deliver me:
Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal death
on that awful day
when the heavens and earth shall be shaken
and you shall come to judge the world by fire.
I am seized with fear and trembling
until the trial is at hand and the wrath to come:
when the heavens and earth shall be shaken.
Eternal light:
Let everlasting light shine upon them, Lord,
with Thy saints for ever,
for Thou art merciful.
Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them,
for Thou art merciful.

Lux aeterna 2021

Gregory Vajda - conductor, Danubia Orchestra Obuda

Looking At Your Soul With A Telescope

Ditta Rohmann, violoncello solo
Joanna Natalia Slusarczyk, conductor
Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra

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Kodaly Center, Pécs

Concerto Per Violoncello e Orchestra - Leonardo Marino

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Mare Marginis (Nouvelle Lune)
Alexandre Tharaud - WDR Sinfonieorchester - Sylvain Cambreling
LIVE.WDR Funkhaus Köln - 20.05.23

Mare Marginis

for 13 instrumentalists with obbligato oboe d'amore

Dunabia Orchestra Obuda | Sebastian Black, conductor

Budapest Music Center, Hungary | October 2023

Written for Péter Eötvös Foundation 

Sebastian Black © 2023

Like The Nightingale (2023)

Plūsma for Symphony Orchestra

Ensemble Modern, cond. Clemens Heil

"I have attempted to create music that is, as it were, self-aware, reflecting upon itself. The ‘sounding personality’ is essentially dual in its character – indirectly alluding to Robert Schumann, the composer of introvert music par excellence, its dreamer self (Eusebius) seeks for an optimal distance of a sight that would allow it to observe its own sensations, colors and shades – in other words, its passionate self (Florestan). “What is the logic therein?” reflects Eusebius, when occasionally settling on that quiet and silent land, from which it stoically observes its own constructive as well as deconstructive forces – its surges and its storms... I have associatively linked the condition for such introspective examination with the image of darkroom – a room that can be made completely dark to allow the processing of light sensitive materials." JP 2012

(Commissioned within the project "Myths, Nation, Identities" – an initiative by Goethe-Institut and Ensemble Modern)


Darkroom (Ein Fantasiestück für Ensemble, 2012)

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Viktor Rekalo - cello
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