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Concerto per quartetto d´archi e orchestra / Concerto for String Quartet and orchestra

Composer
Veress Sándor
Original / Hungarian title
Concerto per quartetto d´archi e orchestra / Concerto vonósnégyesre és zenekarra
Foreign language / English title
Concerto per quartetto d´archi e orchestra / Concerto for String Quartet and orchestra
Year of composition
1961
Type
Concerto
Instrumentation
2 vl., vla., vlc. solo - 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 2 cor., 2 tr., trb. - arpa, cel., pf. - timp., perc (5 esec. - xil., ptto., trg., tam-tam, gr.c., 2 tamb., tmb.b.) - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
21 min
Commissioned by
Paul Sacher
Premiere information
25 January 1962, Basel, Switzerland; Quartetto Végh, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Paul Sacher (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni - Milano, 5758 (large or medium score on sale); 5759 (on hire); 5851 (solo part on sale)
Available here!
Recordings
Toccata CD TOCC 0062, 2013 - Basel String Quartet, Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Schultsz
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1960 - 1961
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Végh in his Mother Tongue BMC Records