György Kurtág - Portrait Salzburg 1993

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WWE 2CD 31870

György Kurtág
Portrait Salzburg 1993

1

Praeludium und Choral

01:35

2

Tamas Blum in memoriam

02:28

3

Antiphone

00:42

4

Vier Mikroludien

03:38

5

Il pleut sur la ville

01:37

6

Lebewohl

01:50

7

Les Adieux

01:03

8

Janos Pilinszky

01:18

9

The Answered Unanswered Question

03:42

10

II. Doppelkonzert

16:53

11

Requiem po drugu - O Gott wie plötzlich diese Stille

01:02

12

- Eine Grausame Romanze

01:31

13

- Es war meine Stärke...

00:39

14

- Gott schütze Dich, mein Geliebter...

02:41

15

What is the Word

16:39

16

III. Grabstein für Stephan in memoriam Stephan Stein

09:42

17

Jatekok (Spiele)

10:17

18

Drei alte Inschriften - Blume, du sollst wissen

01:59

19

- Geschnitze Szekler Wäschemangel

01:36

20

- Grabkreuz auf dem Friedhof von Mecseknadasd

03:23

21

...quasi una fantasia... - Introduzione: Largo

02:24

22

- Presto minaccioso e lamentoso

01:39

23

- Recitativo: Grave, disperato

01:36

24

- Aria - Adagio molto

04:57

		Total Time	01:34:51



Digital Booklet - only with album

It must be particularly satisfying for a composer to experience the entire essence of the creative process in a single concert. But anyone who has ever witnessed György Kurtág at rehearsal – his enthusiasm for his work and his penchant for meticulous accuracy in finding for every musical detail the right expression, the right tone color and the right sound - knows all too well how easily such an occasion could have turned into a nightmare for Kurtág. But the artists who were at work here knew his oeuvre and had rehearsed with the composer himself: So it was no surprise then that Zoltán Kocsis, the Keller Quartett and Peter Eötvös hit the nail on the head with their interpretations. The story of Kurtág taking musicians backstage for an impromptu rehearsal during an award ceremony after the performance of a movement from a string quartet testifies to the greatness of his art. The pieces assembled on the present CD range from a prelude for piano dating back to 1961 to more recent compositions. The joint performance, by Kurtág and his wife Márta, of a selection from Játékok, which they wrap up with a wonderful Bach-transcription, is perhaps the high point of the recording. ...

... Kurtág’s arrangement of the pieces is deliberate: his listener is supposed to first encounter the short pieces belonging to the first part before turning to the two main parts so as to practice the ``listening to and understanding of” his music. Of course, this ordering for didactic purposes does not suggest a qualitative judgment about the individual pieces. The core movements of the Doppelkonzert op. 27/2, for instance, are being presented already in the first of part of the tripartite evening. Similarly, the Requiem po drugo of the second part anticipates the Drei alte Inschriften op. 25 of the third part. The memorable concert closes with a (then still) recent composition: “It was perhaps with the …quasi una fantasia… op. 27/1 that I realized for the first time that music does not just plainly stand there before me, but that its sound material can envelop those who listen. This is why I chose it as the last piece of the evening.” (György Kurtág)

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