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Françoise Gilot en Afrique

Composer
Balogh Máté
Original / Hungarian title
Françoise Gilot en Afrique
Foreign language / English title
Françoise Gilot en Afrique
Subtitle
For reciter and Pierrot-ensemble
Dedication
to Beatrix Horváth and Tommy Erdei, Transparent Sound Festival 2024
Year of composition
2023
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
6
Instrumentation
reciter - fl., cl. - pf. (anche kalimba)- strings: vl., vlc.
Duration
6 min
Movements, parts
1. Largo, sempre calmo 2. Piú mosso, sempre giusto 3. Molto largo, con tanto pazienza, sempre calmo 4. Quasi veloce, capriccioso 5. Giusto, meccanicamente
Text
Folk text(s)
Language
Wolof
Premiere information
13 January 2024, Kunsthalle, Budapest; Máté Bán (fl.), Péter Szűcs (cl.), Éva Osztrosits (vl.), Tamás Zétényi (vlc.), Fülöp Ránki (pf.), Máté Balogh (reciter)
Publisher / Source
MS
Available here!
Recordings
Video recording of the premiere, 2024 - Máté Bán (fl.), Péter Szűcs (cl.), Éva Osztrosits (vl.), Tamás Zétényi (vlc.), Fülöp Ránki (pf.), Máté Balogh (reciter) (Available on youtube.com)
Remarks, other info
Balogh’s piece is composed in the African ‘wolof’ language as reflection to Francoise Gilot’s trip to Senegal. It is an hommage to Francoise Gilot’s painting entitled "Flat relief" (Soulagement plat) (1981)