Drei Madrigalkomödien
for 12 voices
Description
Parts:
1. INSETTI GALANTI (7:00)
First performance: February 1990 Paris
Groupe Vocale de France
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
“Gallant insects” was written in 1970/89 to selected texts from Gesualdo’s Sixth Book of Madrigals. On a sultry summer night, mosquitoes and moths swarm out and sing of ardent love, in an extravagant and mannered fashion, until they are consumed in the flames of their own love.
2. The HOCHZEISTMADRIGAL (4:30)
First performance: November 1976 Metz Festival
Collegium Vocale Köln
”Wedding Madrigal”, composed in 1965/76, is a song to the boundless joy of living (text: ”Al mio gioir”). It shows four stages in the wedding ceremony: guests and relatives posing for photographs at the church-door – marching in and peal of bells, with poses – preparation of the bridal bed by candlelight, with poses – private dialogue between the newly-weds (text: mediaeval German love-song ”Thou art mine, I am thine…”) beneath the spying eyes of the relatives, who peep through the keyhole, with poses.
3. MORO LASSO (8:37)
First performance: April 1963, Budapest
Budapest Madrigal-choir
Moro lasso was composed in 1963/72 for the 350th anniversary of Gesualdo’s death. Here, the piece – perhaps the best known of all Gesualdo’s madrigals – is shown in a rear perspective, as if it were being performed for a spectator watching in the wings: to the chimes of bells, the actors, coughing, growling, clearing their throats, slowly drop their masks of living people and let their true dead faces come to the fore.
Synopsis
Performances
Eötvös: Moro Lasso
Australian National Academy of Music
Brett Dean
Eötvös: Insetti galanti
Szabad Hangok Énekegyüttes
Eötvös: Drei Madrigalkomödien
Schola Heidelberg
Conductor: Walter Nussbaum
Eötvös: Hochzeitmadrigal, Moro Lasso
L´Amphithéatre de l´Opera Bastille
Les Jeunes Solistes
Cond: Rachid Safir
Eötvös: Music for New York, Harakiri, Drei Madrigalkomödien
Eötvös:
Music for New York (Ladányi, Horváth Csaba)
Harakiri (Csengery)
Drei Madrigalkomödien (Tomkins Ens., Dobra)
Katona József Theatre
Eötvös: Drei Madrigalkomödien
Tomkins Choir
Conductor: János Dobra
Eötvös' portrait
Eötvös' portrait
Kosmos (Jukka Tiensuu)
Kosmos (Emil Holmström, Joonas Ahonen)
Derwishtanz (Päivi Kiljala, Heikki Nikula, Kaisa Koivula)
Psy (Mikael Helasvuo, roi Ruottinen, Joonas Ahonen)
Drei Madrigalkomödien (Finnish Radio Chamber Choir)
Harakiri (Mikael Helasvuo, Lauri Toivio, Piia Komsi, Kari Kaarna, Reijo Kela)
Windsequenzen (Uusinta - Zagros Ensemble, cond. Susanna Mälkii)
Two poems to Polly (Roi Ruottinen)
July 4-6, Time of Music Festival
Eötvös: Drei Madrigalkomödien
New Music Festival
Cond: Tönu Kaljuste
Swedish Radio Choir
Eötvös: Drei Madrigalkomödien, Harakiri
Budapest Chamber Opera
Eötvös: Drei Madrigalkomödien, Harakiri
Budapest Chamber Opera
Eötvös: Drei Madrigalkomödien
Les Jeunes Solistes
Dir: Rachid Safir
Eötvös: Drei Madrigalkomödien
Tomkins Ensemble
Eötvös: Insetti galanti, Hochzeitsmadrigal
Tomkins Ensemble
Eötvös: Harakiri, Drei Madrigalkomödien, Radames
Budapest Chamber Opera
Eötvös: Harakiri, Drei Madrigalkomödien, Radames
Budapest Chamber Opera
Eötvös: Atlantis, Psychokosmos, Drei Madrigalkomödien
Dietrich Henschel, baritone
Márta Fábián, cimbalom
Boy sopran, Radio Childrenchoir
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Eötvös: Madrigalkomödien, Harakiri
Madrigalkomödien:
Budapest Tomkins Choir
Conductor: János Dobra
Director: Peter Halász
Harakiri:
Adrienne Csengery, recitation
Director: István Bálint
Castle Theater
Eötvös: Madrigalkomödien, Harakiri
Madrigalkomödien:
Budapest Tomkins Choir
Conductor: János Dobra
Director: Peter Halász
Harakiri:
Adrienne Csengery, recitation
Director: István Bálint
Castle Theater
Eötvös: Madrigalkomödien
Tomkins Ensemble
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Drei Madrigalkomödien
INSETTI GALANTI
Groupe Vocale de France
cond.: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Drei Madrigalkomödien
The HOCHZEISTMADRIGAL
First performance
Metz Festival
Collegium Vocale Köln
Drei Madrigalkomödien
MORO LASSO
First performance
Budapest Madrigal-Choir
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Edition Salabert Paris (EAS 18915)
https://www.durand-salabert-eschig.com/fr-FR/Catalogue.aspx/details/417826
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