His death announced today - with Byron Janis and Maurizio Pollini also dying this week -it has been a sad week for music.
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
He features as the conductor on two BBC MM CDs
Debussy Jeux
BBCSO
Barbican, 15 February 2003
(Volume 16, Number 10)
Reich The Desert Music
BBC Singers and BBCSO
Proms, 29 July 1985
(Volume 25, Number 1)
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Sad to hear. He was a considerable musical presence over the years - many Proms appearances.
We only saw him once and by pure chance. We were on a short visit to Bruges in 2019 and took the opportunity to attend a concert in the marvellous new Concertgebouw. It happened to be Peter Eötvös and Brussels Philharmonic performing his own Senza Sangue and Bartók Bluebeard's Castle.
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Apparently there was a concert a while ago with Pollini playing the Brahms first concerto, Eötvös conducting. I would pay serious money to hear that and not only because of recent sad events.
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Peter Eötvös
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