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.

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Title of the work

Symphony No. 2 (Birth)

Composer

Gyöngyösi Levente

Original / Hungarian title

III. (Születés) szimfónia

Foreign language / English title

Symphony No. 2 (Birth)

Subtitle

For orchestra

Dedication

to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra

Year of composition

2011

Type

Solo voice(s) with orchestra

Instrumentation

S. solo - picc., 2 fl., (I anche fl.a.) 2 ob., c.ing., 2 cl., cl.b., 2 fg., cfg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 2 trb., trb.cb., tuba - timp., perc. (3 burma gong, camp., vibr., marimba b., trg., ptti., 3 tom-tom, tam-tam, gr.c.) - arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.

Duration

25 min

Movements, parts

1. Conception / Fogantatás (Adagio - Allegro con brio)
2. Inside / Belül (Leto calmo)
3. Birth / Születés (Vivacissimo)
4. Outside / Kívül (Adagio - Andante lento)

Text

JÓZSEF, Attila

Language

Hungarian

Commissioned by

Budapest Festival Orchestra for the 2012 Budapest Mahler Festival

Premiere information

6 September 2012, Budapest Mahler Festival, Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest; Budapest Festival Orchestra, Beatrix Fodor (S.), Iván Fischer (cond.)

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Recordings

Recording of the premiere (Available at www.gyongyosilevente.hu)

1 min. sample

1 I.