DoReMi / Cello Concerto Grosso / Speaking Drums
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DoReMi / Cello Concerto Grosso / Speaking Drums
Midori, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Martin Grubinger Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
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Release Date: Sunday 10 July 2016
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In November 2014, Radio France inaugurated its new auditorium with a programme giving carte blanche to one of the most eminent composers of our time, Peter Eötvös, who was then celebrating his seventieth birthday. On this occasion, three of his concertos were given their world premiere recordings under his direction with three soloists of the front rank. The violin concerto DoReMi, played here by its dedicatee Midori, is followed by Cello Concerto
Grosso, a triangular dialogue between the solo cello, the cello section, and the full orchestra. The spectacular Speaking Drums concludes the programme on a highpoint: the orchestra (around forty musicians) prolongs the performance - theatrical as much as musical - of the percussionist, who declaims texts by the poets Sándor Weöres (in Hungarian) and Jayadeva (in Sanskrit) and moves from point to point on the platform, thus creating links with various instruments of the orchestra. The stunning Martin Grubinger lends his voice and his percussion playing to this piece, which ends in highly virtuosic polyrhythm.
"most effective in the violin work DoReMi, which seems perfectly tailored to the brilliance of Midori's playing, and in the sheer theatricality and almost improvisatory quality of Talking Drums, in which Grubinger has to deliver fragments of poems by Sándor Weöres and a Sanskrit text by the Indian poet Jayadeva, as well as playing a wide range of tuned and untuned instruments." (The Guardian)
"The first of these three concertos was not only written for Midori, but playfully takes the (adjusted) syllables of her name as a quasi-tone row from which to concoct a tripartite argument." (Sunday Times)
Tracks:
DoReMi, Violin Concerto No.2
1 I. First Movement 0:07:19
2 II. Second Movement 0:05:58
3 III. Third Movement 0:08:32
Cello Concerto Grosso
4 I. First Movement 0:10:30
5 II. Second Movement 0:06:26
6 III. Third Movement 0:09:57
Speaking Drums
7 I. Tanzlied / Dance Song 0:04:41
8 II. Nonsens Songs 0:07:18
9 III. Passacaglia 0:10:19
