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Seven (Memorial for the Columbia Astronauts)

Composer
Eötvös Péter
Original / Hungarian title
Seven (Memorial for the Columbia Astronauts)
Foreign language / English title
Seven (Memorial for the Columbia Astronauts)
Subtitle
Concerto for violin No. 1
Year of composition
2006
Type
Concerto
Instrumentation
vl. solo - 3 fl. (I anche fl.a., II, III anche picc.), 3 ob., 3 cl., cl.b., 3 fg., sax.bar. (anche sax.a.) - 2 cor., 2 tr., 2 trb., tuba - keyb. (sampler), arpa, chit.el. - perc. (4 esec.) - strings: 6 vl., 5 vla., 5 vlc., 4 cb.
Duration
21 min
Movements, parts
Part I - Cadenza with Accompaniment:

first cadenza (for Husband and McCool)
second Cadenza (for Anderson)
third Cadenza (for Clark and Brown)
fourth Cadenza (for Chawla and Ramon)

Part II
Commissioned by
Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo
Premiere information
6 September 2007, Lucerne; Akiko Suwanai (vl.), Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Schott Music Mainz © 2007, 52338 (on rental) (ED 52603 - Piano reduction)
Available here!
Recordings
Naive CD V 5285, 2012 - Patricia Kopatchinskaja (vl.), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; Péter Eötvös (cond.)
BMC CD 170, 2014 - Akiko Suwanai (vl.), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Göteborgs Symfoniker), Péter Eötvös (cond.)
Video recording, 2008 - Akiko Suwanai (vl.), NHK Symphony Orchestra, Péter Eötvös (cond.) (Available on youtube.com)
1 min. sample
1 first cadenza (for Husband and McCool)
2 second Cadenza (for Anderson)
3 third Cadenza (for Clark and Brown)
4 fourth Cadenza (for Chawla and Ramon)
5 Part II
Remarks, other info
Revised: 2007

"Prix de Composition Musicale" - Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco, 2008
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
naive
BMC Records