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Ulysses

Composer
Seiber Mátyás
Original / Hungarian title
Ulysses
Foreign language / English title
Ulysses
Subtitle
Cantata for tenor solo, choir and orchestra
Year of composition
1947
Type
Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra
Instrumentation
T. solo - mixed choir - 3 fl. (II, III anche picc.), 2 ob. (II anche c.ing.), 2 cl. (II anche cl.b.), 2 fg. (cfg. ad lib.) - 4 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tuba) - timp., 3 perc. (tmb.picc.c.c., gr.c., ptto., gong, trg., camp., cas., vibr., xil., frusta) - arpa, cel. (pf.) - strings: vl., vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
49 min
Movements, parts
1. The Heaventree
2. Meditation of Evolution Incresingly Vaster
3. Obverse Meditation of Involution
4. Nocturme Intermezzo (Hommage à Schönberg)
5. Epilogue
Text
JOYCE, James
Language
English / German
Premiere information
27 May 1949, London; Richard Lewis (T.), Morley College Choir, Kalmar Orchestra, Walter Goehr (cond.)

30 June 1951, Frankfurt / Main, Germany; Orchester des Südwestfunks Bade-Baden, Hans Rosbaud (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Schott Music Ltd., London (On rental)
Available here!
Recordings
Lyrita Reorded Edition, 2015, SRCD.348 - Alexander Young (T.), BBC Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton (cond.) (BBC Archive Performance, broadcast 21 May 1972)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1946 - 1947

After James Joyce´s Ulysses

German translation by Ludwig Andersen