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.

Title of the work

Concerto per violino e orchestra / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Concerto per violino e orchestra / Hegedűverseny
Foreign language / English title
Concerto per violino e orchestra / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Dedication
to Sándor Végh
Year of composition
1939

Type
Concerto
Number of players
16
Instrumentation
vl. solo - 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 2 cor., 2 tr. - timp., perc. (2 esec.: tamb., trg., gr.c., ptto., xil.) - arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
27 min

Premiere information
1948, Budapest; György Garai (vl.), László Somogyi (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni - Milano, 4141 (on hire; the score will be supplied with the hire material or on perusal); 4479 (piano score on sale)
Available here!
Recordings
Live recording, 2018 - Pablo Hernán Benedí (vl.), Concerto Budapest, András Keller (cond.) (Available on youtube.com)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1939, revised: 1948

 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Végh in his Mother Tongue BMC Records