classical music: György Kurtág

classical music: György Kurtág

classical music:

György Kurtág

Kurtág: Neun STücke Für Viola Solo/Jelek, Op.5/Hommage A R. Sch.Schumann: Märchenbilder, ...
Eduard Brunner, Gyorgy Kurtag, ...

Ecm Records, 1995

The only perceptible connection between these composers is a certain concentrated inwardness; also, Kurtág's Hommage á R. Schumann is scored for the same combination as Schumann's Op. 132. Recalling Webern's pointillism, Kurtág's pieces are extremely short; full of rests, sound effects, dissonances, and juxtaposing rather than developing musical ...

Béla Bartók: Concerto for Viola & Orchestra / Peter Eötvös: Replica / György Kurtág: Movement for Viola & ...

Bela Bartok, Peter Eotvos, ...

Polygram Records, 2000

Kashkashian Conquers Hungary
Another fabulous disc from Kim Kashkashian, in Hungarian music for viola and orchestra. Kashkashian produces a dark, haunting tone that fits each work perfectly, and Peter Eotvos and the Dutch orchestra inhabit a complementary sound world, and the recording is up to ...

Gideon Lewensohn: Odradek
Gideon Lewensohn, Alexander Lonquich

Ecm Records, 2002

György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages

Kurt Widmer, Gyorgy Kurtag, ...

Ecm Records, 2003

three powerful chamber works
The first music of Gyorgy Kurtag that I heard was his string quartets, fantastic pieces that apply Webernian concentration to Bartokian materials (see my reviews of the recordings by the Keller Quartet and the Arditti Quartet). Next I listened to the KAFKA FRAGMENTS, ...

György Kurtág: Complete Choral Works

Gyorgy Kurtag, Marcus Creed, ...

Hanssler Classics, 2007

unrecognized master
Usually Ligeti gets most of the credit for being his country's most prominent composer of the last half of the twentieth century (since Bartok) but Kurtag deserves to be in the running - he stayed in obscurity during soviet times while Legeti relocated. Kurtag's works ...

György Ligeti: Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet; Six Bagatelles
Eckart Hubner, Diemut Schneider, ...

Cpo Records, 2000

Gyrgy Kurtg: Jtkok (Games) & Bach Transcriptions - Mrta Kurtg & Gyrgy Kurtg, Piano
György Kurtág, Marta Kurtag

Ecm Records, 1997

Kurtag: Jatekok / Marta and Gyorgy Kurtag

Johann Sebastian Bach, György Kurtág, ...

Ecm Records, 2000

Extraordinary music superbly played
This is one of the finest CDs of contemporary piano music I have ever heard. The music is spare, fragmented, and frequently "empty" -- not empty of content, but empty in the way the Grand Canyon is empty. Not knowing very much about Zen I will still venture to say ...

György Kurtág: Song Cycles (Messages of the Late Miss R.V Troussova, Op. 17; Scenes from a Novel, Op. 19) / ...

Gyorgy Kurtag, Peter Eotvos

Sony, 1993

I prefer the Csengery performance of the soprano works, but what a piano concerto
Gyorgy Kurtag is a modern master of the musical miniature. How short can his pieces get? This 55-minute disc, containing three works, is split into forty tracks, leading to the frequent depiction of the composer as Bartok compressed to Webern-like conciseness. Kurtag's ...

The Hungarian Anthology
Bela Bartok, Ernst von Dohnanyi, ...

Asv Living Era, 1993

György Kurtág: Musik für Streichinstrumente (Music for Strings) - Keller Quartet

Gyorgy Kurtag, Zoltan Gal, ...

Ecm Records, 1996

dark, rich and splendid!
This is an exquisite recording of some of the best in modern music. The three major pieces are Kurtag's String Quartet (op. 1) of 1959, the second quartet, 12 Microludes (op. 13), of 1977-78, and the third quartet, Officium Breve (op. 28) of 1988-89. Three shorter ...

Luigi Nono 3: Guai ai Gelidi Mostri, for Flute, Clarinet, Tuba, 2 Contraltos, Viola, Cello, Double Bass & ...

Luigi Nono, Andre Richard, ...

Disques Montaigne, 1995

solemn electro-acoustic indictment of the capitalstate
Luigi Nono was exceptional among the Darmstadt circle of the 1950s (which included Boulez, Stockhausen and Ligeti) in that he was politically engaged. Nono always emphasized vocal music, placing the voice of the people at the center of the drama, making history, with ...

Queyras Performs Kodaly, Veress, Kurtag

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Zoltan Kodaly, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2002

Impressive recording of cello works by Hungarian composers
This new Harmonia Mundi release by Jean-Guihen Queyras, a name previously unknown to me, is quite impressive. In it, the young cellist performs works by Kodaly, Kurtag and Veress with Alexandre Tharaud as his partner in those pieces written for cello and piano. The ...

György Kurtág: Játékok; Szálkák; Grabstein für Stephan
Gyorgy Kurtag, Zoltan Pesko, ...

Stradivarius, 2007

"Every gesture was transformed into poetry by the Kurtags' performance." -- The Guardian Hungarian composer GyÃ¶rgy KurtÃ¡g (b. 1926) is one of the leading lights of contemporary music, as evidenced in strong audience response and vigorous CD sales. JÃ¡tÃ©kok ["Games"] is an assembly of tiny pieces for piano solo and piano duet that KurtÃ¡g ...