Composition database

This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

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Title of the work

Seven Songs Op. 22 / Sieben Lieder Op. 22

Composer

Kurtág György

Original / Hungarian title

Hét dal Op. 22

Foreign language / English title

Seven Songs Op. 22 / Sieben Lieder Op. 22

Subtitle

To poems by Amy Károlyi and a haiku by Kobayashi Issa in the Hungarian translation by Dezső Tandori, for soprano and cimbalom (or piano)

Dedication

"to Adrienne Csengery for January 3, 1982"

Year of composition

1982

Type

Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)

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Instrumentation

S., cimb. (or pf.)

Duration

10 min

Movements, parts

1. Lassan, lassudan / Slowly, o so slowly
2. Egyensúly / Balance
3. Hol végződik? (Korál) / Where does it end...? (Choral)
4. Ajtón lakattal... / With lock on the door...
5. Labirintus (Perpetuum mobile) / Labyrinth (Perpetuum mobile)
6. Ami megmaradt... (Egy lélek idézése) / What remined... (Evocation of a soul)
7. Ars poetica

Text

KÁROLYI, Amy; KOBAYASHI, Issa

Language

Hungarian / English

Premiere information

7 October 1985, Glasgow; Adrienne Csengery (S.), Márta Fábián (cimb.)

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Recordings

HUNGAROTON SLPX 31120, 1990 - Adrienne Csengery (S.), Márta Fábián (cimb.)

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1 1. Lassan, lassudan