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Eötvös: DoReMi, Cello Concerto Grosso & Speaking Drums
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Midori (violin), Martin Grubinger (voice and percussion)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Peter Eötvös
Jean-Guihen Queyras brings verve and eloquence to the dramatic soliloquy of the [Cello Concerto], and plays athlete and clown in a finale of irresistible with and imagination. DoReMi, a tribute...
Eötvös: DoReMi, Cello Concerto Grosso & Speaking Drums
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Midori (violin), Martin Grubinger (voice and percussion)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Peter Eötvös
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Jean-Guihen Queyras brings verve and eloquence to the dramatic soliloquy of the [Cello Concerto], and plays athlete and clown in a finale of irresistible with and imagination. DoReMi, a tribute...
About
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.
Contents and tracklist
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Peter Eötvös, Midori Gotō
- Recorded: 17, 18, 21 and 24 November 2014
- Recording Venue: Auditorium de Radio France, Paris, France
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Peter Eötvös, Jean-Guihen Queyras
- Recorded: 17, 18, 21 and 24 November 2014
- Recording Venue: Auditorium de Radio France, Paris, France
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Peter Eötvös, Martin Grubinger
- Recorded: 17, 18, 21 and 24 November 2014
- Recording Venue: Auditorium de Radio France, Paris, France
Awards and reviews
September 2016
Jean-Guihen Queyras brings verve and eloquence to the dramatic soliloquy of the [Cello Concerto], and plays athlete and clown in a finale of irresistible with and imagination. DoReMi, a tribute to Midori, finds her on feisty form. It’s characterised by a spangling transparency…one cannot fault this lucid performance under Eötvös’s high-energy direction
August 2016
The OPRF musicians play with alacrity under Eötvös’s direction. Superbly recorded and decently annotated, this disc is recommended to admirers of and newcomers to a composer whose musical imagination knows few bounds
15th May 2016
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.
6th May 2016
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.
