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Echoes
for violin and piano
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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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