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Summer Evening / Sommerabend

Composer
Kodály Zoltán
Original / Hungarian title
Nyári este
Foreign language / English title
Summer Evening / Sommerabend
Year of composition
1906
Type
Chamber orchestra
Instrumentation
fl., ob., c.ing., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 2 cor. - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
21 min
Premiere information
22 October 1906, Budapest; Hungarian Royal Opera House Orchestra, István Kerner (cond.) (First version)

3 April 1930, New York; New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (cond.) (Revised version)
Publisher / Source
Universal Edition, PH216 (pocket score), Performance material available
Available here!
Recordings
BMC CD 141, 2007 - Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ádám Fischer (cond.)
1 min. sample
1 Nyári este
Remarks, other info
Revised in 1929
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Kodály, Zoltán: Háry János-Suite, Summer Evening, Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock) BMC Records