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Paris-Dakar

Composer
Eötvös Péter
Original / Hungarian title
Paris-Dakar
Foreign language / English title
Paris-Dakar
Subtitle
For improvising soloist (trombone, saxophone, clarinet or tárogató) and big band
Dedication
to László Gőz
Year of composition
2000
Type
Concerto
Number of players
13
Instrumentation
double-bell trb. (or sax., or cl. or tárogató) solo - sax.s., sax.a., sax.t., sax.bar. - 3 tr., 2 trb., trb.b. - perc. (2 esec. - I: drum set, II: 3 ptto., 4 conga amp.) - chit.el., chit.b., pf.
Duration
7 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Premiere information
28 March 2003, Budapest Spring Festival, Cinema "Uránia", Budapest; László Gőz (double belled trb.), Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Gergely Vajda (cond.)

9 November 2015, Terrace Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, USA; László Gőz (trb.), Modern Art Orchestra, Kornél Fekete Kovács (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Edition Schott Music Mainz © 2001, 50428 (Score) (Performance material on hire)
Available here!
Recordings
BMC CD 097, 2004 - László Gőz (double belled trb.), Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Gergely Vajda (cond.)
1 min. sample
1 Paris - Dakar
Remarks, other info
The solo part is improvised throughout the piece. (It is also playable with saxopohone, clarinet or tárogató solo)

A second version with different instrumentation is created by Kornél Fekete-Kovács in 2019 (Instrumentation: 4 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, drum set, 4 congas, e-guitar, bass-guitar, piano)
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Péter Eötvös: Snatches BMC Records