da capo
for cimbalom solo and ensemble
Commissioned by Remix Ensemble (Porto), Dialog Festival (Salzburg), New World Symphony (Miami)
Description
First performance: 6 May, 2014, Porto
Remix Ensemble
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Miklós Lukács
The meaning of “da capo” is to return to the beginning and start again. A musical process, which reaches somewhere but does not end, beginning again and again in a different way, from different basic material throughout nine stages, evolves from the starting tune. The initial tunes come from Mozart’s notebooks. They are fragments, ideas for themes, which in their majority or not in the outlined form did not result in finished compositions. Péter Eötvös presents these tunes to listeners in a clearly recognisable way but he immediately develops and transforms them. Mozart’s themes are almost immediately remodelled in the chamber ensemble, the instruments of which were still unknown in the 18th century, and the musical journey is made especially adventurous in that the solo (whether played on the cimbalom or the marimba) is presented by a musical instrument which cannot have been used in the 18th century.
The work was composed in winter 2013-2014 at the invitation of Porto’s Casa da Musica, the Salzburg Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum and New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy (Miami). The cimbalom solo was inspired by the performance of Hungarian cimbalom player Miklós Lukács.
Performances
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart, da Capo
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor
Wiener Symphoniker
Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart, da capo
Conductor: Ivor Bolton
Sinfonieorchester Basel
Stadtcasino
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart, da capo
Conductor: Ivor Bolton
Sinfonieorchester Basel
Stadtcasino
Eötvös: da capo
Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
Conductor: Bart Bouckaert
Soloist: Titus Francken, marimba
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart, da capo
Sibelius-Akatemian Sinfoniaorkesteri
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Sibelius-Akatemian Sinfoniaorkesteri
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart
Eötvös: da capo
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Sibelius-Akatemian Sinfoniaorkesteri
Dialog mit Mozart
Da Capo für Orchester
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Plural Ensemble
Aaron Holloway-Nahum: The long March
Eötvös: da capo
Eötvös: Secret kiss
Kurtág: Messages
Ligeti: Piano concerto
Cond.: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Secret kiss, da capo
Aaron Holloway-Nahum: The long March
Eötvös: da capo
Eötvös: Secret kiss
Kurtág: Messages
Ligeti: Piano concerto
Cond.: Peter Eötvös
Plural Ensemble
Gageego! Ensemble
Zivkovic: On the Guearding of the Heart
Eötvös: Secret kiss
Ligeti: Chamber concerto
Eötvös: da capo (marimba version)
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Ryoko Aoki, solist
Eötvös: Secret kiss, da capo
Gageego! Ensemble, Gothenburg
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart, da capo für Orchester
Staatskapelle Dresden
Cond.: Ivor Bolto
Eötvös: da capo
Ligeti Ensemble
conductor: Zoltán Rácz
Eötvös: da capo
Ligeti Ensemble
conductor: Zoltán Rácz
26 November Beograd
THReNSeMBLe
Peter Tornyai: QuatreQuatuors for ensemble
György Kurtág: Brefs messages op. 47
Máté Balogh: Trittico dalla mia finestra
Balázs Horváth: pikokosmos - millikosmos
Peter Eötvös: da capo (Miklós Lukács, cimbalom)
Cond.: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: da capo
Peter Tornyai: QuatreQuatuors for ensemble
György Kurtág: Brefs messages op. 47
Máté Balogh: Trittico dalla mia finestra
Balázs Horváth: pikokosmos - millikosmos
Peter Eötvös: da capo (Miklós Lukács, cimbalom)
Cond.: Peter Eötvös
THReNSeMBLe
Eötvös: da capo
Budapest Music Center, Budapest
UMZE
conductor: László Tihanyi
solo: Zoltán Rácz
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart, da capo
Venue: Mozarteumorchester Salzburg
conductor: Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla
Mozarteum, Salzburg
Eötvös: da capo
Ensemble UnitedBerlin
conductor: Andrea Pestalozza
Venue: Konzerthaus Berlin
Eötvös: da capo
Festival of contemporary music Melos-Ethos
Melos Ethos Ensemble
Zsolt Nagy, conductor
Eniko Ginzery, cimbalom
Eötvös: da capo
version for cimbalom solo and ensemble
conductor: Zsolt Nagy
cimbalom: Miklós Lukács
Eötvös: da capo
version for cimbalom solo and ensemble
conductor: Zsolt Nagy
cimbalom: Miklós Lukács
Eötvös: da capo
version for cimbalom solo and ensemble
Cafe Budapest Festival
Miklós Lukács, cimbalom
Gregory Vajda, conductor
Eötvös: da capo
version for marimba and ensemble
Concerto Budapest
Zoltan Racz marimba solo
conductor: András Keller
Budapest Music Center
Eötvös: da capo
Ludwig Ensemble
soloist: Jan Rokyta
conductor: Manoj Kamps
Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, AmsterdamTivoliVredenburg
Eötvös: da capo
Ludwig Ensemble
soloist: Jan Rokyta
conductor: Manoj Kamps
TivoliVredenburg
Eötvös: da capo
Tokyo Sinfonietta
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Eötvös: da capo - version for marimba and ensemble
Musikfabrik Ensemble
Dirk Rothbrust, marimba
Clement Power, conductor
WDR, Germany
Miami
Eötvös: da capo - version for cimbalom and ensemble
Eötvös: Chinese Opera
Chester Englander, cimbalom
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: da capo - version for cimbalom and ensemble, Chinese Opera
conductor: Peter Eötvös
Chester Englander, cimbalom
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Dialog Festival
Eötvös: Snatches of a conversation
Eötvös: Natasha - new version for trumpet (Marco Blaauw, violine, clarinet and piano)
Eötvös: da capo (Miklós Lukács, cimbalom)
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Snatches of a conversation, Natasha, da capo
Dialog Festival
Eötvös: Snatches of a conversation
Eötvös: Natasha - new version for trumpet (Marco Blaauw, violine, clarinet and piano)
Eötvös: da capo (Miklós Lukács, cimbalom)
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Eötvös: da capo, Steine, Chinese Opera
da capo for cimbalom solo and ensemble
Steine, Chinese Opera
Remix Ensemble
cond.: Eötvös
Remix Ensemble
Composer in residence
Eötvös: da capo (for cimbalom solo and ensemble)
Eötvös: Steine
Eötvös: Chinese Opera
Cond.: Peter Eötvös
Details
Publisher information
UMP Editio Musica Budapest
https://www.umpemb.com/en-US/Catalogue.aspx/details/454811
Orchestration
1 flute (also picc. and altfl.),
1 oboe (also Eng.Horn),
1 clarinet in A,
1 bass-clarinet (also clar in Es),
1 bassoon (also Contra-bassoon),
1 horn,
1 trumpet in B,
1 trombone with quartventil,
1 tuba,
1 percussion,
cimbalom solo,
strings: 2 violin,
1 viola,
1 violoncello,
1 contrabass
Sound
Eötvös: da capo – part 4 – Musikfabrik – 2015