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

Secret Kiss


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Secret Kiss
Foreign language / English title
Secret Kiss
Subtitle
Melodrama for narrator and five instrumentalists
Year of composition
2018

Type
Stage work
Number of players
6
Instrumentation
narrator - fl.a. (anche fl.), cl.b. (anche cl.) - vl. (scord.), vlc. - perc. (1 esec.: campli., crot., vibr., 3 trg., tam-tam, gr.c., chimes)
Duration
16 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Text
MEZEI, Mari
Language
Japanese / English / Hungarian
Commissioned by
Gageego Ensemble Gothenburg, Casa da Música – Porto, Plural Ensemble Madrid, Okamura & Company, Inc., Musikfabrik Cologne, MÜPA Budapest, Wigmore Hall and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as part of BCMG’s Sound Investment Scheme
Premiere information
5 January 2019, "Eötvös 75" Concert, Concert Hall, Budapest Music Center; Piroska Molnár (narrator), Gergely Ittzés (fl.), Péter Szűcs (cl.), Bálint Kruppa (vl.), Ditta Rohmann (vlc.), Boglárka Fábry (perc.) (Pre-premiere performence in Hungarian language)

27 January 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden; Ryoko Aoki (in Japanese), Gaggeego Ensemble Gothenburg

9 March 2019, 150th Anniversary of Japan and Hungary Diplomatic Relations, Recital Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan; Ryoko Aoki (in Japanese)br>
24 March 2019, Porto; Ryoko Aoki (in Japanese), Remix Ensemble

26 November 2024, Wigmore Hall, London; Meg Kubota (narrator), Birgmingham Contemporary Music Group, Geoffrey Paterson (cond.) (WP of the english language version)
Publisher / Source
Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, Mainz © 2018, 58 513
Available here!
Recordings
Live recording, 2019 - Ryoko Aoki (reciter), Musikfabrik Ensemble, Péter Eötvös (cond.) (Available on eotvospeter.com)
Remarks, other info
Text by Mari Mezei, selected from Alessandro Baricco´s novel "Silk"br>
English translation by Eszter Molnár

Japanese translation by Oriza Hirata