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

She Leaves Me


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Elhagy
Foreign language / English title
She Leaves Me
Subtitle
Cantata for Bariton Voice and 17 Performers, on the Poem by Anna T. Szabó
Dedication
to Iván Fischer, Ákos Ambrus and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
Year of composition
2006

Type
Solo voice(s) with orchestra
Number of players
18
Instrumentation
Bar. solo - picc., fl. (anche fl.a.), ob., cl. (anche cl. in E flat), cl.b., fg. (anche cfg.) - cor., tr., trb. - timp., perc. (vibr., trg., gr.c., tam-tam, 3 tom-tom, ptti., ptto.sosp.) - arpa - strings: 2 vl, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
10 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Text
SZABÓ T., Anna
Language
Hungarian
Commissioned by
Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
Premiere information
7 September 2006, Festival Teather, MÜPA - Palace of Arts, Budapest; Ákos Ambrus (Bar.), Chamber Ensemble of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Recordings
Recording of the premiere (Available at www.gyongyosilevente.hu)
Remarks, other info
Composed on Anna T. Szabó´s two Poems