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Echoes
for violin and piano
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Echoes (2007) for violin and piano, serves as an earlier version of the Violin Concerto. Both works
were written for the violinist Wolfgang Dávid. The musical material 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 ÒbrokenÓ or interrupted by a number of minor seconds at various junctures. The composition is in
a single movement with three distinct sections. The first fast exposition alternates between a single note
(G) and robust jabbing sonorities, where throughout the roles of horizontal and vertical 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 final fast
romp leads to a chorale-like coda, not unlike that found in the Berg concerto.
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