Atlantis
for baritone, boy soprano, cimbalom and orchestra
Commissioned by WDR Cologne
Description
First performance: 17 November, 1995, Cologne
WDR Symph.Orch.,
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Dietrich Henschel, Marta Fábián
Text: Sándor Weöres
Did Atlantis really exist? Where and when? Was it just in someone´s imagination? A dream or a nightmare perhaps? Atlantis is the symbol of terrifying natural catastrophies, but it can also be interpreted as a sign of social and ethnic conflicts – it is just ahead of us. Humanity is continuously working on sinking itself, the apocalyptic fall of the anticipated final judgement is a bitter topicality.
Basically, Eötvös is an optimist, he never gives up hope. For him the “Artist” is a seismograph of the future who produces utopias for tomorrow. Eötvös rephrases Mussorgsky´s famous saying: “the past is with us in the present” into: “the future originates from the present.”
… We are all under water: this is the situation that Eötvös places the audience into right at the beginning of the piece. A world of fantasy-sounds surrounds us, from which the sounds approach us like far-off hallucinations… The ten string players and the ten percussionists symbolize the five twins of Poseidon and Kleitos, the first ten kings of Atlantis…
At the end of each movement, soft Transylvanian dance music can be heard from the distance, like the low, scratched recording on an old phonograph.
Is this all that remained after us? – we might well ask.
/Thomas Schäfer – Cologne, 1995/
Performances
Eötvös: Atlantis, Dialog mit Mozart, Reading Malevich
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Zsolt Haja (bar.), boy soprano, Miklós Lukács (cymb.)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Program:
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart
Eötvös: Reading Malevich
Eötvös: Atlantis
Venue: Müpa, Budapest
Eötvös: Atlantis
Porto Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Peter Eötvös
Venue: Casa da Musica
Eötvös: Atlantis
Orchestre Philharmonic Radio France
Strasbourg Musica Festival
Eötvös: Atlantis, Paris-Dakar
Atlantis (Szeged Contemporary Balett)
Paris-Dakar (ArtOrchestra Budapest)
Shanghai World Expo
Hungarian National Day
Eötvös: Atlantis
Junge Philh. Zentralschweiz
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
RAI Orch
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
RAI Orch
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Conservatoire Superieur
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Hamburg Staatsoper Orchestra
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Hamburg Staatsoper Orchestra
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Varsaw Autumn Festival
Cond: Zsolt Nagy
Eötvös: Atlantis
Hessischer Rundfunk Orch.
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Hessischer Rundfunk Orch.
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Hessischer Rundfunk Orch.
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Bartók: Four orch. pieces Op.12
Pintscher: Violin concerto
Eötvös: Atlantis
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Cond: Péter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Bartók: Four orch. pieces Op.12
Pintscher: Violin concerto
Eötvös: Atlantis
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Cond: Péter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Bartók: Four orch. pieces Op.12
Pintscher: Violin concerto
Eötvös: Atlantis
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Cond: Péter Eötvös
Eötvös: zeroPoints, Jet Stream, Atlantis
Eötvös: zeroPoints
Eötvös: Jet Stream (Markus Stockhausen)
Eötvös: Atlantis
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Cond: Péter Eötvös
New Music Festival, February 17-21
Eötvös: Atlantis
Radio Symph. Orch.
Cond: Péter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Radio Symph. Orch.
Cond: Péter Eötvös
Eötvös: Atlantis
Musica Festival
Stuttgart Radio-Symphony Orchestra
Cond: Peter Eötvös
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Eötvös: Atlantis
Budapest Spring Festival
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Wojtek Drabowicz, baryton, Marta Fábián, cimbalom
Eötvös: Atlantis
Budapest Spring Festival
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Wojtek Drabowicz, baryton, Marta Fábián, cimbalom
Eötvös: Atlantis
Amsterdam (VARA matiné)
Radio Philharm. Orch. Hilversum
Eötvös: Atlantis, Psychokosmos, Drei Madrigalkomödien
Radio France - Orch. Philh.
Details
Publisher information
Edition Ricordi München – performing material on hire (Sy 3221)
Orchestration
solo barytone,
boy soprano,
cimbalom,
virtual choir (3 synth.)
5 fl. (2-3-4-5 also picc., 4-5. also altfl.),
5 ob. (5. also eng. horn),
4 cl. (4. also bcl),
1 bcl (cbcl),
5 bassoon (4-5. also contrabassoon),
4 sax.(s., a., t., bar),
6 horn,
5 trumpet (1-2 also picctr.),
bugle,
5 trombone (1. alto, 5. basso),
2 tuba,
10 perc.
2 harps,
2 el.piano,
bassguitar,
strings: 2.2.2.2.2
Technical information
DX7 /FM8 computer program ‐ Logic with FM8 plug‐in
programmed on:
Mac OSX version 10.7.5
Logic Pro 9 version 9.1.8
Native Instrument FM8 plug‐in instrument version 1.3.0
3 keyboard players
- You need a computer with 6ch output audio interface (3 player x2ch to the mixing console and monitoring) + midi interface with 3 inputs
+ Logic 9 program with ‘Native Instruments ‐ FM8’ installed (version 1.3.0)
+ 3 x master keyboard with midi connection
+ 3 x 1 hold/sustain and 2 expression pedal
expression pedal ‐ Foot Control pedal (FC1 control cc4 parameter FC2 control cc7) - Please copy the ‘Atlantis’ sound files from the ‘sounds’ folder to:
Mac:Macintosh HD > Users > *User Name* > Documents > Native Instruments > Shared Content > Sounds > FM8
PC:C: > Users > *User Name* > Documents > Public Documents > Native Instruments > Shared Content > Sounds > FM8
More info:
http://www.native‐instruments.com/en/support/knowledge‐base/show/877/how‐to‐transfer‐fm8‐from‐one‐computer‐to‐another/ - Load the Atlantis session
- On the master keyboards set the transmit midi channel:
player1= midi ch 2
player2= midi ch 3
player3= midi ch 4
so you can change the program from you keyboard. - The number of the program change number is the same as in the score
- player1+ player2 + player3 channel should be record enable (all of three)
- If there is any CPU overload during program change increase the I/O buffer size (preferences>audio>I/O buffer size)
If you have any technical question please write to:
studio(at)tomtom.hu
or call Peter Dorozsmai +36 30 900 0355
Tom‐Tom Studios
THE COMPUTER SOUND MATERIAL CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM THIS LINK !
For more technical information please download the following documents (PDF):
Stage photos:
Instrument photos:
For more questions, please contact:
Peter Eötvös Composition Studio
studio@eotvospeter.com