Composition database

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Title of the work

In Memoriam Bálint Balassi - Cantata for Orchestra and Soprano Solo


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Balassi Bálint nevére - Kantáta nagyzenekarra és szoprán szólóra
Foreign language / English title
In Memoriam Bálint Balassi - Cantata for Orchestra and Soprano Solo
Year of composition
2004

Type
Solo voice(s) with orchestra
Instrumentation
S. solo - pf. solo - symphony orchestra
Movements, parts
1. Psalmus CXLVIII.
2. Ejusdem Generis
3. Interludium
4. Aenigma
5. Psalmus XLII.
6. Adj már csendességet

Text
BALASSI, Bálint
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
5 November 2004, National Theater, Budapest; Csilla Boros (S.), Alex Szilasi (pf.), Hungarian Telekom Symphony Orchestra (now Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra), Márton Rácz (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Hungarian Telekom Symphony Orchestra CD MSHO 13, 2005 - Csilla Boros (S.), Alex Szilasi (pf.), Hungarian Telekom Symphony Orchestra (now Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra), Márton Rácz (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Based on the poems by Bálint Balassi

Winner composition at the Composer´s Competition organized for the Balassi Memorial Year by the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage and the Hungarian Telekom Symphony Orchestra