Utazás — Rock Opera (Kocsák / Tábori / Miklós), (2 CD)

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Product Details:

• Product Type: Audio CD (2-disc set)
• Title: Utazás — rock opera
• Composers / Authors: Kocsák Tibor – Tábori György – Miklós Tibor
• Music Director: Kocsák Tibor
• Recording: Phoenix Studio, 1996–97
• Genre: Rock Opera / Musical
• Language: Hungarian

Product Features

• Format: 2 × CD
• Total runtime: approx. 2 hours 27 minutes (CD1 1:14:33 / CD2 1:12:01)
• Published by Ferencvárosi Nyári Játékok Kht.
• Condition: Brand new, factory sealed

Overview

Utazás ("Journey") is a Hungarian rock opera set against the 1956 revolution — its cover, a torn tricolour and a period bus on a roadmap, tells you the era at a glance. Composed by Kocsák Tibor with libretto by Tábori György and Miklós Tibor, it's a full two-disc dramatic work that follows its characters through the events of November 1956 and their aftermath.

The score moves through the sweep you'd expect of the form: tense ensemble numbers ("Ferihegy, 1956. november 4.," "A forradalom"), intimate songs, and the long set-pieces that carry the drama. Across two discs and nearly two and a half hours, it's an ambitious, fully sung Hungarian rock opera.

For collectors of Hungarian musical theatre and the rock opera tradition, it's a substantial and historically themed work.

Interesting Facts

• The rock opera takes the 1956 Hungarian Revolution as its dramatic backdrop.
• Music is by Kocsák Tibor, a prolific Hungarian composer for musical theatre.
• The libretto is credited to Tábori György and Miklós Tibor, the latter a major figure in Hungarian musical theatre.
• The recording was made at the Phoenix Studio in 1996–97.
• The full work runs across two discs, totalling nearly two and a half hours.

Track Listing

CD 1: 1. Prológus 0:57 / 2. Budapest 5:16 / 3. Ferihegy, 1956. november 4. 7:59 / 4. A buszon I. 6:37 / 5. Az utakadály 3:27 / 6. Utolsó harc 3:09 / 7. A buszon II. 2:18 / 8. Hazádnak rendületlenül 3:35 / 9. Szurov őrnagy 3:35 / 10. Kihallgatás 4:38 / 11. Hotel Moson 5:06 / 12. A vacsora 11:26 / 13. A forradalom 13:06 / 14. Coda 3:19 (total 1:14:33)

CD 2: 1. Hogyan tovább? 9:03 / 2. Senki nem születik szentnek 4:04 / 3. Veres és Szurov 5:03 / 4. Nyloning 3:08 / 5. Monte Carlo 5:12 / 6. A szökés terve 5:05 / 7. A mulatság 12:44 / 8. A szökés 8:33 / 9. Háziőrizet 3:59 / 10. Lady Ashton és Szurov 4:12 / 11. Tercett 3:37 / 12. Úton a határra 3:31 / 13. A hídnál 1:19 / 14. Epilógus 3:25 (total 1:12:01)

Publishers

Published by Ferencvárosi Nyári Játékok Kht. Recorded at Phoenix Studio, 1996–97.

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