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Harakiri

Composer
Eötvös Péter
Original / Hungarian title
Harakiri
Foreign language / English title
Harakiri
Subtitle
Scene with music
Year of composition
1973
Type
Stage work
Number of players
5
Instrumentation
performer (Japanese), narrator (home-language), 2 shakuhachi or 2 fl.a. or 2 sax.s., wood-cutter
Duration
20 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Text
BÁLINT, István
Language
Japanese / home-language
Commissioned by
WDR, Cologne
Premiere information
22 September 1973, Bonn, Germany; Tokk Ensemble, Kaoru Ishii (voice), Shizuo Aoki, Katsuya Yokoyama (shakuhachi), Yasunori Yamaguchi (woodcutter)
Publisher / Source
Edition Ricordi München © 1997, SY 3225/01
Available here!
Recordings
BMC CD 038, 2000 - Tokk Ensemble, Kaoru Ishii (voice), Shizuo Aoki, Katsuya Yokoyama (shakuhachi), Yasunori Yamaguchi (woodcutter) (Recording of the premiere)
ALM Records ALCD-98 - Ryoko Aoki (Noh), Kazushi Saito (fl.), Takashi Yamane (cl.), Satoshi Takeshima (perc.)
Hungarian Television 1993 (Video)
1 min. sample
1 Harakiri
Remarks, other info
Revised: 2002
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
BMC Records