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

Five Songs for Tenor and Orchestra


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Five Songs for Tenor and Orchestra / Öt dal tenor hangra és zenekarra
Foreign language / English title
Five Songs for Tenor and Orchestra
Year of composition
1977

Type
Solo voice(s) with orchestra
Instrumentation
T. - orchestra
Movements, parts
I - II - III - IV - V

Text
WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Language
English
Premiere information
1978, Music for Youth Orchestra, Milwaukee, USA; Daniel Nelson (T.), Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Rubenstein (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Recordings
Recording of the premiere, 1978 - Daniel Nelson (T.), Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Rubenstein (cond.) (Excerpt available on yehudayannay.com)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1976 - 1977

After the poems by Willam Carlos Williams