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Jesus or Barabbas?

Composer
Doráti Antal
Original / Hungarian title
Jézus vagy Barabbás?
Foreign language / English title
Jesus or Barabbas?
Subtitle
Melodrama after a story by Frigyes Karinthy for speaker, mixed chorus and orchestra
Dedication
For the IPPNW 1987
Year of composition
1987
Type
Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra
Instrumentation
speaker - mixed choir (S-A-T-B) - 3 fl., 3 ob., 3 cl., 3 fg. (III anche cfg.) - 4.4.3.1 - 2 timp., perc(3 esec. - gr.c., ptto.sosp., 2 gong, tam-tam, 3 tmb.picc.c.c.) - strings: 16 vl. 1, 14 vl. 2, 12 vla., 10 vlc., 8 cb.
Duration
16 min
Text
KARINTHY, Frigyes; DORÁTI, Antal
Language
English / German
Premiere information
10 December 1987, Budapest; Susanna York (speaker), Hungarian Radio Choir and Orchestra, László Kovács (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Müller & Schade © 2007, M&S 2002
Available here!
Recordings
BIS CD-578, 1992 - Will Quadflieg (speaker), HdK Chamber Choir, New Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Martin Fischer-Dieskau (cond.)