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Visszatekintve (Looking Back) - For Symphony Orchestra

Composer
Horváth Balázs
Original / Hungarian title
Visszatekintve - Szimfonikus zenekarra
Foreign language / English title
Visszatekintve (Looking Back) - For Symphony Orchestra
Year of composition
2008
Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
3 fl., 3 ob., 3 cl., cl.b., 3 fg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tuba - 3 timp., perc. (3 esec. - xil., tmb.picc., brush, 2 tam-tam, water gong, 2 wood bl., cort., gr.c., ptto.sosp., trg.) - arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb. - CD player (controlled by the conductor)
Duration
8 min
Movements, parts
I - II (Version A, Version B)
Commissioned by
Government of the Republic of Hungary - On the occasion of the Hungarian National Day of 15th March and the 160th anniversary of the Hungarian democratic revolution in 1848
Premiere information
14 March 2008, Pécsi Nemzeti Színház (National Theatre, Pécs), Hungary; Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, Zsolt Hamar (cond.)

15 March 2008, MÜPA Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest; Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, Zsolt Hamar (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS - copyright by the author
Performance material can be hired from the composer
Recordings
Hungarian Radio (MR) 2009
1 min. sample
1 Version A
2 Version B
Remarks, other info
The two movements of the piece must be played separately from each other and possibly at the „corners” of the concert that means either the beginning and the end of the concert or the before and after intermission.