Per Nørgård - Achilles and the Tortoise (1983)

for solo piano, performed by Per Salo “Achilles and the Tortoise“ refers with its title to the Greek philosopher Zeno´s famous paradox, in which he proves that Achilles will never catch up with a tortoise, if the tortoise i given just a small head start. The proof is constructed on the argument that when Achilles reaches the point where the tortoise started, the tortoise will have moved a little further ahead to a new point, and when Achilles reaches this new point, the tortoise will have moved slightly, f