Encore
for string quartet
Description
First performance: 11 June, 2006, Schloss Neuhardenberg
Athena quartet
Encore is dedicated to Peter Eötvös’ Hungarian fellow composer and master of aphorism, György Kurtág, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
The original title of the piece There´s a taxi waiting for Chekhov, but he´d rather go on foot. Right at the beginning, this funny Encore piece has the string quartet imitate the squawking horn of a car from 1901. The following polyrhythmic and somewhat slow chorale may suggest that Chekhov actually did not make his decision easy for himself…
Performances
Eötvös: Psy, Dance of the brush-footed butterfly, Korrespondenz, Encore, Octet
I Solisti Aquilani
cond: Vittoriano Vinciguerra
Eötvös: Psy, Snatches of a conversation, Korrespondenz, Encore, Sonata per sei
Green Umbrella Festival
Conductor: Gregory Vajda
Eötvös: Shadows, Encore, Octet plus, Psy, Derwischtanz, Snatches of a conversation
Composer portrait
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Carnegie Hall
Eötvös: Encore
Athena quartet
Details
Publisher information
Schott Musik Mainz
Orchestration
string quartet
Recordings
