Siren’s song
for orchestra
Commissioned by Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Description
First performance: 25 March 2021 – Budapest
Pannon Philharm. Orch.
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
For millennia, sirens – killer birds with women’s heads – have been the most famous singers in mythology.
My composition “Sirens´s song” was inspired by three authors. According to Homer, the sirens seduced sailors with their bewitching song and then killed them. Ulysses cautiously puts wax in his ears, so that he can lay eyes on but cannot hear them. Kafka suggests that the sirens cunningly fooled Ulysses because they refused to sing for him, anyway.
The sirens are the muses of the underworld. Non only Joyce did they seduce but also all composers who have tried to make audible what Ulysses could never hear.
/Peter Eötvös/
Performances
Eötvös: Siren´s Song, Alhambra
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Gürzenich-Orchester
Eötvös: Siren´s Song
Eötvös: Alhambra - violin concerto No 3. (Isabelle Faust)
Xenakis: Shaar
Varèse: Amériques
Eötvös: Siren´s Song, Alhambra
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Gürzenich-Orchester
Eötvös:Siren´s Song
Eötvös: Alhambra - violin concerto No 3. (Isabelle Faust)
Xenakis: Shaar
Varèse: Amériques
Eötvös: Siren´s Song, Alhambra
Gürzenich-Orchester
Eötvös: Siren´s Song
Eötvös: Alhambra - violin concerto No 3. (Isabelle Faust)
Xenakis: Shaar
Varèse: Amériques
Eötvös: Siren´s Song, Alhambra
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Concerto Orchestra
Program:
Eötvös: Siren´s Song
Eötvös: Alhambra - violin concerto (Isabelle Faust)
Debussy: Prélude à l´après-midi d´un faune
Debussy: Ibéria- Images pour Orchestre No 2
Venue: Müpa, Budapest
Eötvös: Siren´s Song, Alhambra
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Concerto Orchestra
Program:
Eötvös: Siren´s Song
Eötvös: Alhambra - violin concerto (Isabelle Faust)
Debussy: Prélude à l´après-midi d´un faune
Debussy: Ibéria - Images pour orchestre No 2
Venue: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest
Details
Publisher information
Orchestration
Middle-size orchestra
3333-2220-2 Perc- 14-12-10-8-6
or 12-10-8-6-4