Eotvos / Grauschumacher Piano Duo Kosmos Sonata Per Sei Psalm 151 In Memoriam Frank CD

B?la Bart?k plays a major role in many works by Peter E?tv?s. The love of Bart?k's music first appears in the piano piece "Kosmos". The title refers to Bart?k's famous piano cycle "Mikrokosmos". However, the work also bears the title "Kosmos" because Yuri Gagarin's famous space flight was about to take place when it was written in March 1961. E?tv?s was then 17 years old, and Gagarin excited the young composer's imagination. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Bart?k's birth in 2006, E?tv?s wrote a piano concerto in which he further developed Bart?k's ideas and thought processes. The concerto is entitled "CAP-KO", an acronym for "Concerto for Acoustic Piano, Keyboard, and Orchestra". The piano resources are extended by use of a computer, which adds further sounds to those being played - a revolutionary technology that E?tv?s wants to be understood as a symbol of Bart?k's pioneering spirit. The concerto centres on the famous Bart?k cascades of octaves and sixths. E?tv?s has twice re-arranged "CAP-KO" for other instrumentations, e.g. as "Sonata per sei" for two pianos, three percussionists, and sampler keyboard. Among the musicians E?tv?s has always admired is Frank Zappa. When Zappa died in 1993 at the young age of 42, E?tv?s responded with grief and anger. He said, "In connection with Zappa's premature and meaningless death, one really cannot praise God, but must protest." He composed a piece that gives expression to this protest. Since the 150 psalms in the Bible do not deal with protest, the piece became Psalm 151: "This is the one that is not in the Bible."

1. Viertel = 86 2. Halbe = 69 3. Halbe = 69 4. Bart?k berquert Den Ozean - Achtel = 84 5. Viertel = 112 6. Psalm 151 (In Memoriam Frank Zappa) 7. Kosmos