“Eötvös likes to put things on stage. He admits he likes to give the utmost freedom to a director working on his operas, as long as he is sensitive to the music. But in instrumental or vocal works, he himself is the director. He often makes characters appear: Wolfgang and Leopold Mozart in his quartet Korrespondenz, Gesualdo in Madrigalkomödie, Gagarine in Kosmos... A drama is hatched, an intrigue, a psychological situation is exposed; sometimes they feature Eötvös himself, like Hitchcock in his films; other times, instead of imaginary people, artists inspire him and make their appearance. This abiding sense of theatre constitutes the underlying texture of this disc.” Jean-Philippe Wurtz