Un taxi l’attend mais Tchékhov préfère aller à pied.
for solo piano
Description
First performance: 19 April 2007 – New York
Carine Gutlerner, piano
There´s a taxi waiting for Chekhov, but he´d rather go on foot
The title of this composition is related to Eötvös´s first opera the Three sisters, based on Chekhov´s play. The composer felt so close to the writer, that he would imagine that he could just meet him at any time on the street, waiting for a taxi or walking away. In this nostalgic, chromatic piece, one can hear Chekhov, walking slowly away, lost in his thoughts.
Performances
Eötvös: un taxi l'attend, Erdenklavier-Himmerklavier, Dances of the Brush-Footed Butterfly, Cadenza
Classics from Argentina and Hungary
(concert at the Residence of the Argentine Embassy)
Eötvös: Psy, Erdenklavier - Himmelklavier, Two poems to Polly, Un taxi l'attend, mais Tchékhov préfère aller à pied
Helmut Lachenmann: TemA
Henrik Ajax: Sparkling Shiverings
Máté Balogh: Kipling's Speech
Peter Eötvös, piano
Eötvös: Psy, Un taxi l’attend, mais Tchékhov préfère aller à pied., Erdenklavier - Himmelklavier No 2.
Ensemble Avantgarde
Gewandhaus, Leipzig
Eötvös: Paris-Dakar, Music for N.Y., Two poems to Polly, "Now, Miss!", Un taxi l´attend... Erdenklavier-Himmelklavier
Musicians of Orchestra de Caen
Eötvös: "There´s a taxi waiting for Chekhov, but he´d rather go on foot"
Merkin Concert Hall
Carine Gutlerner, piano
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Schott Music Mainz
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Hayk Melikyan, piano
Yerevan, 2013
Hayk Melikyan, piano