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Title of the work

Waiting for Spring

Composer
Farkas Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Tavaszvárás
Foreign language / English title
Waiting for Spring
Subtitle
Cantata for bariton solo, mixed choir, children´s choir (ad lib.) and orchestra
Year of composition
1967
Type
Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra
Instrumentation
Bar. solo - mixed choir, chidren´s choir ad. lib. - 3 fl. (III anche picc.), 2 ob. (II anche c.ing.), 2 cl. (II anche cl.b.), 2 fg. (II anche cfg.) - 4 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tuba - timp., perc. - 2 arpa, pf. (anche cel.) - strings
Duration
19 min
Movements, parts
1. Invokáció
2. Lirikus intermezzo
3. Quasi scherzo
4. Epilógus
Text
JUHÁSZ, Gyula
Language
Hungarian
Publisher / Source
MS by András Farkas (score)
Editio Musica Budapest © 1970, Z. 10103 (piano reduction)
Editio Musica Budapest © 1970, F-49 (performance material on hire)

Available here!
Recordings
Hungaroton HCD-31852, 1999 - György Melis (Bar.), Chorus and Children´s Chorus of the Hungarian Radio and Television, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, János Ferencsik (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Based on the poem by Gyula Juhász