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Festival Overture

Composer
Zádor Jenő
Original / Hungarian title
Festival Overture / Fesztivál-nyitány
Foreign language / English title
Festival Overture
Subtitle
For orchestra
Year of composition
1964
Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
3 fl., 2 ob., 3 cl., 3 fg. - 4 cor., 4 tr., 3 trb., tuba - timp., perc. (3 esec.) - pf., arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
10 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Premiere information
10 December 1964, Opening Week, Los Angeles Music Center, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta (cond.)
Publisher / Source
G. Schirmer / EMI Music Inc
Available here!
Recordings
Naxos CD 8.573274, 2015 - Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Mariusz Smolij (cond.)