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Kurtág György: ...couple égyptien en route vers l'inconnu...

for upright piano (con supersordino) or pianoforte

Instrumentation: Piano
Période: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 14989
The two piano pieces were inspired by a statue which can be seen in the Egyptian Collection of the Louvre in Paris. The full-length portrait of the couple holding hands was carved in wood by the unknown master more than 4000 years ago (i.e. between 2350-2200, the time of the VIth…
Prix: $24.99

Kurtág György: ...quasi una fantasia...

for piano and groups of instruments dispersed in space

Instrumentation: Orchestre de chambre
Période: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 13742
"I wanted for musicians to not be able to discuss how bad the music was during rehearsals," said György Kurtág (* 1926) at his own expense in reference to his works, which call for the use of orchestras scattered throughout the concert hall sounding from different directions…

Kurtág György: 13 Pieces for two cimbaloms

from "Játékok"

Instrumentation: Cimbaloms
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 8773
From volumes I-IV of piano collection Games, the composer made transcriptions for the cimbalom, an instrument which has always been exceptionally dear to him.

Kurtág György: 4 Capriccios

nach Gedichten von István Bálint für Sopran and Kammerorchester

Instrumentation: Voix et piano
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Edition
Numéro d’édition: UE30393

Kurtág György: 4 Capriccios

nach Gedichten von István Bálint für Sopran and Kammerorchester

Instrumentation: Musique de chambre vocale
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Edition
Numéro d’édition: UE31264

Kurtág György: 6 Moments Musicaux for string quartet

Instrumentation: Quators de cordes
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Période: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 14512
Begun in 1999, the work, which is Kurtág’s fourth string quartet, had been completed in 2005. In this suite of 6 movements Kurtág reuses music from other compositions, most often from his long-running Játékok for piano. 6 Moments musicaux was dedicated to György Kurtág junior…

Kurtág György: 8 Klavierstücke

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Instrumentation: Piano
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Edition
Numéro d’édition: UE14140

Kurtág György: Messages of the Late R. V. Troussova

for soprano and chamber ensemble to poems by Rimma Dalos

Paroles de Rimma Dalos
Instrumentation: Musique de chambre vocale
Période: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 12021
It was the Paris premiere in 1981 of Messages of the Late R. V. Troussova that brought the world's attention to the music of György Kurtág (born 1926). The spectrum of these feminine poems in Russian with their cruel sincerity ranges from nostalgia to rebellion, from melancholy…

Kurtág György: The Small Snag

for piccolo, trombone and guitar

Instrumentation: Trios a formations variées
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 12020
This cycle, created at the same time as Kurtág's large-scale Russian-language song cycles, expresses the composer's affection for Russian music and Russian culture in a half-serious, half-joking manner. There are probably personal reasons for the special arrangement of instruments.

Kurtág György: Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach

for piano (duet and six hands) and for two pianos

Instrumentation: Piano 4 mains
Genre: Pieces pédagogiques
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 13823

1-19. for piano four hands

20. for piano six hands

21-27. for two pianos

For György Kurtág, the inspiration that can be drawn from earlier music is particularly important, and he approaches them mostly by working together with performers, teaching them, or making…

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Kurtág György: Aus der Ferne III

for string quartet

Instrumentation: Quators de cordes
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Période: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 14100
Aus der Ferne III is a short piece written in 1991 for the 90th birthday of Alfred Schlee, the emblematic director of the Viennese publishing house Universal Edition. The cycle of five pieces Aus der Ferne thus unfolds over more than fifteen years: Aus der Ferne n° 1 and 2 for piano…

Kurtág György: Der Glaube für Violoncello solo (1998)

Instrumentation: Violoncelle
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Edition
Numéro d’édition: UE33372

Kurtág György: Bagatelles

for flute, double bass and piano

Instrumentation: Trios a formations variées
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 12494
The work, composed in 1981, is a transcription of six well-known pieces from the piano cycle Játékok, which was begun in 1973 and has since expanded to ten volumes. Michelle Lee, Rafael Gonzales de Lare and Richard Nunn played at the London premiere in 1982. Since then, the work…

Kurtág György: Die Sprüche des Péter Bornemisza.

Concerto für Sopran und Klavier

Instrumentation: Voix et piano, Voix: soprano et piano
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Edition
Numéro d’édition: UE14493

Kurtág György: Colindă-Baladă

for tenor solo, chorus and chamber ensemble

Instrumentation: Choeur et orchestre de chambre
Période: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 14668
"A continuation of Cantata profana", said Ferenc László, a Hungarian music historian in Romania, about this work. Indeed, Kurtág uses in his cantata a Romanian kolinda text and melody collected by Bartók, which tells about the love of the Sun and the Moon, brother and sister…

Kurtág György: Erinnerung an einen Winterabend

für Sopran, Violine und Cymbal

Instrumentation: Musique de chambre vocale
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Edition
Numéro d’édition: UE15907

Kurtág György: Einige Sätze aus den Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs (1996/1999)

for soprano and double bass

Instrumentation: Musique de chambre vocale
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 14242
The polymath, naturalist and aesthetician Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) is an interesting figure of 18th-century German cultural history. Yet his most important work, his collection of aphorisms, only appeared posthumously. It embraces almost all the themes that concerned…

Kurtág György: Lebenslauf (1992)

for two basset-horns and two pianos

Instrumentation: Quators a formations variées
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Période: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 13967
The work was composed in 1992 for the 85th birthday of Kurtág's teacher, Sándor Veress. The ensemble of instruments is unusual: two basset horns and two quarter-tone pianos (the well-known predecessor of the latter is Charles Ives' Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos)…

Kurtág György: S. K. Remembrance Noise

Seven Songs for soprano and violin to poems by D. Tandori

Paroles de Tandori Dezsö
Instrumentation: Musique de chambre vocale
Genre: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 7940
Dezső Tandori's poems, raising abstract, linguistic and art-philosophical questions, seem to be far from Kurtág's individuality, yet he is one of the Hungarian poets whose texts the composer returned to several times. S.K. Remembrance Noise (together with the Four songs to the poems…

Kurtág György: Grabstein für Stephan

(In memoriam Stephan Stein) for guitar and groups of instruments

Instrumentation: Orchestre de chambre
Période: Musique contemporaine
Editeur: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Numéro d’édition: 13813
This piece, written in memory of Stephan Stein in 1989 for guitar solo and chamber ensemble, grew out from sketches made in 1978-79.

At the core of the musical texture is a choral-like sequence of guitar chords occasionally completed or interrupted by chordal or melodic…

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