Frankfurt Radio Symphony (hr-Sinfonieorchester) - Eötvös: Gliding - Four Works for Symphonic Orchestra (2019)

Under the title »Eötvös3«, the three-year artistic collaboration started in the 2016/17 season, which ended immediately after Peter Eötvös's 75th birthday in early 2019. Each season, the charismatic Hungarian composer and conductor conceived and performed a Hungarian-influenced concert program with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Alte Oper Frankfurt, and presented their own new works in world premieres and German premieres.

The present CD presents the new version of his 2002 trumpet concerto "Jet Stream", which premiered in 1997 with star trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger. In the same year, the German première of Eötvös '"Dialogue with Mozart", a cheerful "Da capo for orchestra", followed in which numerous unfinished fragments of Mozart are taken up and transferred into Eötvös' musical language.

Peter Eötvös presented two more current works in early 2019: "The Gliding of the Eagle in the Skies," a musical exploration of Basque music, whose metaphor of floating in a three-dimensional space-sound constellation of extremely high and low registers Space explored, as well as "All vittime senza nome", a requiem in memory of the nameless victims of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, which was again presented in German premiere by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.