EÖTVÖS Concertos
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Composer or Director: Peter Eötvös
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: BMC
Magazine Review Date: 06/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 62
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: BMCCD170
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Seven |
Peter Eötvös, Composer
Akiko Suwanai, Violin Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Peter Eötvös, Composer Peter Eötvös, Composer |
Levitation |
Peter Eötvös, Composer
BBC Symphony Orchestra John Bradbury, Clarinet Peter Eötvös, Composer Peter Eötvös, Composer Richard Hosford, Clarinet |
CAP-KO |
Peter Eötvös, Composer
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Peter Eötvös, Composer Peter Eötvös, Composer Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano |
Author: Arnold Whittall
Levitation (2007) also has five sections, and its scoring for two clarinets, strings and accordion (not ‘harmonica’ as the translated notes state) facilitates the explicit allusion to Petrushka’s sinister ‘resurrection’ towards the end. Though it is rather more static in rhythmic character than Stravinsky’s early masterwork, the sparks begin to fly as the duetting clarinettists respond to the music’s almost cinematic vividness. Nevertheless, seven is probably the strongest piece of the three. As a ‘memorial for the Columbia astronauts’, its unusual design – four short cadenzas followed by a lament-like finale almost twice as long as the collected cadenzas, comes across powerfully in this fiercely committed performance, recorded with maximum intimacy and immediacy.
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