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Ottetto / String Octet

Composer
Doráti Antal
Original / Hungarian title
Ottetto / Vonósoktett
Foreign language / English title
Ottetto / String Octet
Subtitle
For 4 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos
Year of composition
1964
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
8
Instrumentation
strings: 4 vl., 2 vla., 2 vlc.
Duration
25 min
Movements, parts
1. Allegro aperto
2. Molto Adagio
3. Scherzo: Presto possibile
4. Vivace con brio
Premiere information
18 August 1965, Menuhin Festival, Gstaad, Switzerland; Yehudi Menuhin, A. Lysy, N.Michal, Ling Tong (vl.), Ernst Wallfisch, 0. Lysy (vla.), Maurice Gendron, Gaspar Cassado (vlc.)
Publisher / Source
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni © 1971, ESZ 6493 (Material for hire)
Available here!
Recordings
Dinemec Classics CD DCCD 059, 2008 - Soloist of the Camerata Lysi