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Echoes  
for violin and piano  

Echoes (2007) for violin and piano, serves as a proto-version of the Violin Concerto. Both works were written for the violinist Wolfgang Dávid. The musical material (the fifth out of twenty-nine possible collections) is generated from the idea of a continuous series of perfect fifths (the open strings of the violin are all tuned a fifth apart), but which are "broken" or interrupted by a number of minor seconds at various junctures. The composition is in three movements. The opening fast exposition alternates between a single note (G) and robust jabbing sonorities, where throughout the roles of horizontal and vertical materials are continually alternated between the soloist and the piano. The middle section presents a slow lyrical melody along with a series of contrapuntal lines based on the augmented triad. Following the cadenza, the finale is a driving romp in the form of a rondo (A-B-A-C-A etc.).




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