The Pro Musica Girl’s Choir was created in 1986, by those alumni of the Cantemus Children’s Choir who had left the choir but wished to carry on singing in this community. As early as the first year of its existence, the choir won first prize at the Bartók Béla International Choir Contest in Debrecen. They went on receiving prizes at similar events in Gorizia, Tolosa, Arezzo and Athens. Ten years later, in 1996, they won the most important award of international choir contests, the European Grand Prix in Debrecen.
This album contains György Orbán’s motets with latin text, wich sings the Pro Musica Girls Choir, conducted by Dénes Szabó.

The Pro Musica Girl’s Choir was created in 1986, by those alumni of the Cantemus Children’s Choir who had left the choir but wished to carry on singing in this community. As early as the first year of its existence, the choir won first prize at the Bartók Béla International Choir Contest in Debrecen. They went on receiving prizes at similar events in Gorizia, Tolosa, Arezzo and Athens. Ten years later, in 1996, they won the most important award of international choir contests, the European Grand Prix in Debrecen.
An outstanding branch of the immeasurably rich musical outcome of the renaissance era wasthe polyphoni choir literature of religious content. The vividness of it depended on the content of biblical texts connected with church ceremonies, but it was also influenced by the tradition of the poliphone practice of the given language area such as those of Italy, Spain, France, England etc. The main expectation for the motet, the almost only dominant genre created this way, was to convey the meaning of the lyrics, since the purpose of it was to elevate the glamour of the celebration, but even more so to focus on and understand the spiritual background of the ceremony and to deepen it with artistic effects. And perhaps this is the secret of the vivid radiation of the pearls of the genre still living today. Dénes Szabó’s justly world-famous choir, the Pro Musica Women’s Choir selected some of these and they hand them over as a beautiful bonquet on their latest CD recording to the listeners. Among the choir pieces of the various ceremony-cycles of the curch year there are antiphous, hímns, Lent-time responsorial and several psalm-extracts by different authors.