classical music: Gyorgy Kurtag

classical music: Gyorgy Kurtag

classical music:

Gyorgy Kurtag

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 ...

Stockhausen: Gruppen, Kurtag: Grabsteinfur Fur Stephan, Stelle, Claudio Abbado

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gyorgy Kurtag, ...

Deutsche Gram. Ger., 1996

Stockhausen's most accessible and original work
In my judgement, Claudio Abbado seems to have entered the annals of the Berlin Phil as their most underrated and underestimated conductor. But in years to come that might change. First he deserves credit for having put in place a program like this one in the first ...

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 ...

Jan De Gaetani in Concert

Gyorgy Kurtag, Dmitry Shostakovich, ...

Bridge, 1995

The Wonder of Jan de Gaetani
This volume of recordings by that penultimate interpreter of contemporary music Jan De Gaetani released as a full set of extant recordings is important on any levels. The artistry here displayed is of the highest order and we are reminded of the brilliance of this ...

Musik Fur Streichinstrumente

Gyorgy Kurtag, Keller Quartet

Ecm Records, 2000

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 ...

Gideon Lewensohn: Odradek
Gideon Lewensohn, Alexander Lonquich

Ecm Records, 2002

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, The Resurrection / Gielen, SWR Sinfonieorchester

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gustav Mahler, ...

Hanssler Classics, 2000

Unusual fillers with a warhorse
To tell the truth, I have five or six recordings of this Mahler and hardly needed another, but Gielen's came out shortly around the time I heard one of its fillers, performed live. Kurtag's Stele is an amazing work, a 15-minute funeral ode, and I've heard few pieces ...

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, ...

Kafka-Fragmente Op. 24
Gyorgy Kurtag, Juliane Banse, ...

Ecm Records, 2006

The Matchstick Man / The Seventh Door - Two films on Gyorgy Kurtag and Peter Eotvos

Judit Kele, Three Sisters

Juxtapositions, 2006

A jewel that should be rated ten stars.
This is, with no doubt, on of the best DVDs of contemporary music you can buy nowadays, a work of a really art status, directed wonderfully by Judit Kele and joining together two of the most important composers from our time: György Kurtág and Peter Eötvös. Kurtág's ...

Compassion: A Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin

Michal Kanka, Ludmila Peterkova, ...

Angel Records, 2001

Wonderful playing, but not all at once
I ordered this CD after hearing excerpts of it on Chicago's classical music radio station, WFMT. The CD does present a wonderful selection of works by prominent composers of the past decade. The playing is wonderful, and the pieces are valuable contributions to the ...