Perplexities after Escher

Perplexities after Escher is a chamber music composition by Graham Waterhouse for heckelphone, string quartet and double bass.

[1] The heckelphone is a rare member of the oboe family prominently used by Richard Strauss, Frederick Delius and Paul Hindemith.

[6] The work was played again in two portrait concerts with an identical program in Munich and Münsing around the composer's birthday in November 2024, together with arrangements of solo compositions by Beethoven and Bach, and String Sextet op.

[4][7] It was performed by Hoos (heckelphone), David Frühwirth and Anna Kakutia (violin), Chialong Tsai (viola), Waterhouse (cello) and Thomas Herbst (double bass).

[8] The image inspiring the second movement is Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, printed in 1931, the third Dragon (1951), the fourth Castrovalva (1930), and the fifth Kringloop (1938).