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Nudes - Symphonic Poem in Three Pictures

Composer
Solti Árpád
Original / Hungarian title
Aktok - Szimfonikus költemény három képben
Foreign language / English title
Nudes - Symphonic Poem in Three Pictures
Subtitle
After paintings by Gustave Courbet, Salvador Dalí and Auguste Renoir
Dedication
To the Memory of Ferenc Liszt
Year of composition
2011
Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., c.ing., 3 cl. (III anche cl.b.), 2 fg., cfg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tuba - 5 timp., perc. (4 esec. - xyl., crot., campli, vibr., camp., ptti., 2 ptto.sosp., ptto.china, ptp., ptto.ch. tam-tam, 3 gr.c., 5 tom-tom) - cel., pf., arpa - strings: 12 vl. 1, 10 vl. 2, 8 vla., 8 vlc., 6 cb.
Duration
15 min
Movements, parts
1. L´ origine du monde
2. Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
3. La Baigneuse
Premiere information
8 February 2011, New Hungarian Music Forum Composition Competition, Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest; Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, András Keller (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Budapest Music Center BMC PCD 28, 2011 - New Hugarian Music Forum Composition Competition 2011, Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, András Keller (cond.)
1 min. sample
1 I.
2 II.
3 III.
Remarks, other info
The piece was written for the New Hungarian Music Forum Composition Competition 2011 and won 3rd Prize in the Orchestral Category