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.

Search
New search
Title of the work

Désir (Desire)

Composer
Dobri Dániel
Original / Hungarian title
Désir (Vágy)
Foreign language / English title
Désir (Desire)
Subtitle
Poéme symphonique for orchestra and fixed media (Based on Sándor Petőfi´s ballad: The Sea in Love)
Year of composition
2023
Type
Ballet / Choreographic work
Instrumentation
2 fl. (II anche picc.), 2 ob. (II anche c.ing.), 2 cl. (II anche cl.b.), 2 fg. (II anche cfg.) - 4 cor., 2 tr., 3 trb., tuba - 4 timp., perc. (3 esec. - I: gr.c., crot., vibr., tam-tam, tmb.picc.c.c., 2 tom-tom, trg., ptto.sosp., campli.; II: wind chimes., shaker, campli., gr.c., tambourine, tam-tam, ptto.sosp., trg.; III: thunder tube or thunder plate, ptto,sosp., camp., trg., 3 tom-tom, tam-tam, crot., slapstick, ptti., vibr.) - arpa - strings: 10 vl. 1, 8 vl. 2, 6 vla., 6 vlc., 4 cb. - electronics (fixed media)
Duration
17 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Commissioned by
Szeged Contemporary Dance Company in 2023
Premiere information
10 November 2023, "Szeged Contemporary Dance Company: Lánglelkű" National Theater, Szeged; Szeged Contemporary Dance Company, Szeged Symphony Orchestra, Sándor Gyüdi (cond.)

16 September 2024, Vörösmarty Theater, Székesfehérvár, Hungary; Alba Regia Symphony Orchestra, Péter Dobszay (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Recording of the premiere, 2024 - Alba Regia Symphony Orchestra, Péter Dobszay (cond.) (Available on youtube.com)
Remarks, other info
The Association of Hungarian Composers has awarded Dániel Dobri with the Istvánffy Benedek Prize in 2024 for Désir.

"For the virtual voyage on the sea, I processed a Hungarian-Turkish folk song called ‘Szivárvány havasán’. In this melody, as Zoltán Kodály writes, “there is a general, supra-national, ancient recitative formula”, because the melody appears not only in Hungarian but in many Eastern folk music traditions, such as Turkish folklore, as well. In the first part of the composition, I narrate Sándor Petőfi’s ballad ´The Loving Sea´ with my music, and then in the last part of the composition, I further explore the story and I show you (with the orchestra and with tape electronics) what happens at the bottom of the sea." (Dániel Dobri)