SKU: BT.EMBZ14897

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 stillunknown 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.

SKU: BT.EMBZ14617

English-Hungarian.

The composer writes about his work: The piece was written for the 2006 Spring Festival. The wording of the commission requested me to try to express what a Mozart opera means to our era. It was as a banner rather than as an internal motto that I used this one sentence: Die Strahlen der Sonne vertreiben die Nacht, zernichten der Heuchler erschlichene Macht. ( The rays of the sun expel the night and annihilate the power of the Deceiver ). At that time and in our day too, only as his last utterance in the final act can Sarastro announce this to the people gathered around him.

Das Stück wurde für das Frühlingsfestival 2006 komponiert. Der Auftrag lautete, ich solle versuchen zu formulieren, was eine Mozart-Oper für unsere Zeit bedeutet. Eher als Transparent als ein inneres Motto nutzte ich den Satz: ’Die Strahlen der Sonne vertrieben die Nacht...’ Sarastro kann den um ihn Versammelten diesen Satz damals wie auch heute nur als letzten Satz des letzten Aktes verkünden.” (Dániel Dinyés).