Janus Pannonius, Balassi Bálint / Magyar Költők - Hungarian Poets / Read by Bánffy György, Gálffi László, Mensáros László, Végvári Tamás / Hungaroton Classic Audio CD 2002 

UPC 5991811428327

HCD14301

MADE IN HUNGARY

TOTAL TIME: 59:46

Janus Pannonius (Latin: Ioannes Pannonius, Croatian: Ivan Česmički, Hungarian: Csezmiczei János, or Kesencei; 29 August 1434 – 27 March 1472) was a Croat-Hungarian Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the most significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of the better-known figures of Humanist poetry in Europe.

Baron Bálint Balassi de Kékkő et Gyarmat (Hungarian: Gyarmati és kékkői báró Balassi Bálint, Slovak: Valentín Balaša barón z Ďarmôt a Kameňa; 20 October 1554 – 30 May 1594) was a Hungarian Renaissance lyric poet. He wrote mostly in Hungarian,^[4] but was also proficient in further eight languages: Latin, Italian, German, Polish, Turkish, Slovak, Croatian and Romanian. He is the founder of modern Hungarian lyric and erotic poetry.

Balassi was born at Zólyom in the Kingdom of Hungary (today Zvolen, Slovakia). He was educated by the reformer Péter Bornemisza and by his mother, the highly gifted Protestant zealot, Anna Sulyok.

His first work was a translation of Michael Bock's Wurlzgertlein für die krancken Seelen, (published in Kraków), to comfort his father while in Polish exile. On his father's rehabilitation, Bálint accompanied him to court, and was also present at the coronation diet in Pressburg (today's Bratislava), capital of Royal Hungary in 1572. He then joined the army and fought the Turks as an officer in the fortress of Eger in North-Eastern Hungary. Here he fell violently in love with Anna Losonczi, the daughter of the captain of Temesvár, and evidently, from his verses, his love was not unrequited. But after the death of her first husband she gave her hand to Kristóf Ungnád.

Naturally Balassi only began to realize how much he loved Anna when he had lost her. He pursued her with gifts and verses, but she remained true to her pique and to her marriage vows, and he could only enshrine her memory in immortal verse.

Tracklist:

1 Pannónia dícsérete 0:30


2 Guarinóhoz 0:28


3 Költeményeinek tolvajára 0:31


4 Szilviáról 0:22


5 Egy dunántúli mandulafáról 0:50


6 A narni-i Galeottóhoz 0:59


7 Mátyás Magyarország királyává választása 0:30


8 Búcsú Váradtól 2:25


9 Midőn beteg volt a táborban 3:59


10 A haldokló Janus Pannonius 0:23


11 Most adá virágom nekem bokrétáját 2:00


12 Bizonnyal esmérem rajtam most erejét 3:43


13 Nő az én örömem 2:28


14 Nő az én gyötrelmem 2:56


15 Áldott szép pünkösdnek 1:22


16 Vitézek mi lehet 2:43

17 Bocsásd meg Úristen 3:24


18 Szabadsága vagyon már 2:24


19 Szép Magyar Komédia (Részlet) 2:57


20 Ez világ sem kell már nekem 1:03


21 Júlia két szemem 2:55


22 Idővel paloták, házak erős várak 1:34


23 Ó nagy kerek kék ég 4:14


24 Nyolc ifjú legén 3:18


25 Ó én édes hazám 2:25


26 Az Zsuzsánna egy szép német leán 2:09


27 Kegyelmes Isten, kinek kezében 1:28


28 Adj már csendességet 1:21


29 Végtelen irgalmú, ó te nagy hatalmú 4:25