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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.

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Secret Kiss

Composer
Eötvös Péter
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
English / Japanese
Commissioned by
Gageego! Ensemble Gothenburg, Casa da Música Remix Ensemble Porto, Müpa Budapest, Plura Ensemble Madrid, Musikfabrik Ensemble Cologne, Bunka kaikan Tokyo.
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
Publisher / Source
Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, Mainz © 2018, 58 513
Available here!
Recordings
Live recording, 2019 - Ryoko Aoki, 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