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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Composer

Eötvös Péter

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For orchestra

Dedication

for Pierre Boulez and the London Symphony Orchestra

Year of composition

1999

Type

Symphony orchestra

Instrumentation

2 picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., c.ing., 3 cl., cl.b., sax.s., sax.t., 2 fg., cfg. - 4 cor., tr.picc., 2 tr., 2 trb., trb.b., tuba - perc. (5 esec. - I: gr.c., vibr., ptto., tam-tam, metal chimes, steel drum, trg.; II: timp., vibr., xil., camp., ptto., tam-tam, steel drum, trg.; III: 3 timp., 2 sleigh-bells; IV: 1 timp., marimba, campli., camp., ptto., tam-tam, steel drum, trg.; V: gr.c., marimba, campli., ptto., tam-tam, crot., steel drum, trg., string drum) - 2 arpa - pf. (anche cel.) - strings: 14 vl. 1, 12 vl. 2, 10 vla., 10 vlc., 8 cb.

Duration

14 min

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Commissioned by

London Symphony Orchestra, Kölner Philharmonie, Théâtre des Champs Elysée, Carnegie Hall, Societé Philharmonique de Bruxelles and Brussels 2000, Musikfestwochen Luzern, Edinburgh International Festival for Boulez 2000

Premiere information

27 February 2000, Barbican Hall, London; London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (cond.)

31 October 2019, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, MÜPA - Palace of Arts, Budapest; Hungarian National Philharmonic, Péter Eötvös (cond.) (Hungarian premiere)

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Recordings

BMC CD 063, 2001 - Göteborgs Symfoniker (The National Orchestra of Sweden), Péter Eötvös (cond.) (Samples available at www.eotvospeter.com)

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