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BABEuropeL 2024

Composer
Balogh Máté
Original / Hungarian title
BABEuropeL 2024
Foreign language / English title
BABEuropeL 2024
Subtitle
For reciter and chamber ensemble
Dedication
to UMZE Ensemble
Year of composition
2024
Type
Ensemble
Instrumentation
reciter - fl., c.ing., cl. - pf. - strings: vl., vla., vlc.
Duration
6 min
Text
biblical;
Language
Old Hebrew / Old Greek / Latin / German / Hungarian / English
Commissioned by
UMZE Ensemble
Premiere information
8 December 2024, Budapest Music Center; Máté Balogh (reciter), UMZE Ensmeble, Gergely Vajda (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Available here!
Recordings
Live recording of the premiere, 2024 - Máté Balogh (reciter), UMZE Ensmeble, Gergely Vajda (cond.) (Available on soundcloud.com)
Remarks, other info
The revised version of BABEuropeL (2014), regarded to be an independent piece of art. The new version was commissioned by and dedicated to the UMZE Esnemble. The piece is based on the story of the Tower of Babel taken from Genesis 11:9.

Winner of the 2026 Mullord Award in London established by the Alvarez Chamber Orchestra.