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.

Title of the work

Four Portraits from Memory


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Four Portraits from Memory / Négy portré emlékezetből
Foreign language / English title
Four Portraits from Memory
Subtitle
For orchestra
Year of composition
2006

Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., cl.b. - cor., tr., euph. - perc. (1 esec.) - pf. - strings: 6 vl., 3 vla., 3 vlc., 2 cb.
Duration
31 min

Movements, parts
1. Instead of...
2. A dirge...
3. ...for a friend who lived true to the "good name"...
4. Light...shade...and in between...

Publisher / Source
Canadian Music Centre, MI 1100 A596fo
Available here!
Recordings
Centrediscs CD-CMCCD 26419, 2019 - Salt Festival Orchestra, Csaba Ajtony (cond.)
Remarks, other info
See also version for piano:
Sonata (Four Portraits from Memory)

 

Recordings

Title Publisher
CMC - Canadian Music Centre