for upright piano (con supersordino) or pianoforte
Zasedba: Piano
Obdobje: Contemporary Music
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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…
for piano and groups of instruments dispersed in space
Zasedba: Chamber Orchestra
Obdobje: Contemporary Music
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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…
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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.
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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…
for soprano and chamber ensemble to poems by Rimma Dalos
Words by Rimma Dalos
Zasedba: Chamber Music with Voice
Obdobje: Contemporary Music
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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…
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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.
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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…
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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…
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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…
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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…
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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…
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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)…
Seven Songs for soprano and violin to poems by D. Tandori
Words by Tandori Dezsö
Zasedba: Chamber Music with Voice
Zvrst: Contemporary Hungarian Works
Založba: Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest
Številka artikla: 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…
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