Eotvos: String Quartets

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Release Date: 3rd Nov 2017
Catalogue No: BMC249
Label: BMC
Length: 51 minutes

Eötvös: The Sirens Cycle

Work length36:38

$10.50

$13.50

Audrey Luna (soloist)
Calder Quartet

Joyce 1

Track length4:10

$1.05

$1.35

Joyce 2

Track length1:45

$1.05

$1.35

Joyce 3

Track length2:50

$1.05

$1.35

Joyce 4

Track length0:55

$1.05

$1.35

Joyce 5

Track length2:48

$1.05

$1.35

Joyce 6

Track length3:52

$1.05

$1.35

Joyce 7

Track length3:51

$1.05

$1.35

Interlude

Track length2:37

$1.05

$1.35

Homer

Track length4:27

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$1.35

Kafka

Track length9:23

$1.05

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Eötvös: Korrespondenz

Work length14:52

$3.15

$4.05

Audrey Luna (soloist)
Calder Quartet

Szene 1

Track length3:24

$1.05

$1.35

Szene 2

Track length2:31

$1.05

$1.35

Szene 3

Track length8:57

$1.05

$1.35

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Péter Eötvös continues the great musical tradition of symbiosis of text and music, indeed in many of his works he creates a causal relationship between music and words. He mines the text of the composition to create from it the musical raw material of the work. In his Mese (Tale) of 1968 he wove the polyphonic structure of the composition from a recording of a Hungarian folk tale played at various speeds. Since then, indulging his inclination to experiment, he has for almost every work found a new method of creating music from text. Neither is the wide variety of languages chosen incidental, for different languages exert different influences on the timbre, rhythm, intervallic structure of the music produced – and even its form…

Eotvos: String Quartets

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