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Track Listings
| 1. Blumen die Menschen, nur Blumen...(...sich umschlingende Tone) | |||
| 2. Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (BWV 687) - In memoriam Joannis Pilinszky | |||
| 3. Praludium und Choral | |||
| 4. Knoten | |||
| 5. Antiphone in fis | |||
| 6. Klagegesang 1 | |||
| 7. Hommage a Christian Wolff | |||
| 8. Spiel mit Obertonen | |||
| 9. Prepetuum mobile (objet trouve) | |||
| 10. ...und noch einmal: Blumen die Menschen... | |||
| 11. Schlage-Zank | |||
| 12. Studie zu 'Holderlin' | |||
| 13. Sonatina aus 'Actus tragicus' (BWV 106): Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit | |||
| 14. Hommage a Strawinsky: Glocken | |||
| 15. Zorniger Choral | |||
| 16. Hoquetus | |||
| 17. Mit den Handflachen | |||
| 18. Glockenblume | |||
| 19. Distel | |||
| 20. Haschen Trotzig | |||
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9 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Crystalline harmonies and distilled thought abound in György Kurtág's imaginative world. His music is by turns dark and obsessive, light and playful. Kurtág hints at Wagnerian proportions using Webern's tiny language. The obvious brevity of the music performed here - so magically by the Keller Quartet - is of little importance: the music has a resonance that lasts long after hearing it. This disc is an ideal way into the music of a sometimes stark and witty mind.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Jewel-like modernist piano music
11 Dec 2002
Format:Audio CD
This is one of my favorite piano music recordings. Kurtag's piano pieces, each dedicated to a friend or hero, are like miniature musical portraits composed by a master artist. They are tiny, intricate, and gestural. His music tends toward the aphoristic, saying a lot with very few notes. Some pieces are less than a minute long. And yet they have the feel of the eternal about them. The sound is beautiful.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Extraordinary music superbly played
4 Mar 2002
Format:Audio CD
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 that Kurtag's music has Zen-like qualities of intense concentration, absence of ornamentation for it own sake, quietude, rigorousness, micro- and macro-scopic examination of its subject, seriousness offset with moments of whimsy, and even, though how I know this I don't know, morality. Not prudery, but real morality. This is music that grapples, as much as music ever can, with the Big Problems. Death, love, loyalty and rememberance are frequent themes. There is a deeply religious, almost monastic, quality to much of the music. It is therefore perfectly fitting that the recording is held up by four columns -- four transcriptions of Bach chorales, at least two of which are among the finest transcriptions of these much transcribed works as I have ever heard (easily in a class with Busoni, Kempff and Hess). For Bach lovers alone this is a great recording to have. Ditto for lovers of contemporary music. For Bach lovers who also love contemporary music, this is an essential recording -- not to be missed. Outstanding in every respect.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Játékok (Games): A Well Named Collection
22 Sep 2010
Format:Audio CD
György Kurtág keeps us guessing and entertained with his ingenious thoughts about music in our time. This marvelous CD is devoted to his piano music and both the composer and his wife Marta Kurtág perform these very brief encounters with sound in a manner in which they are aptly called 'Games'. Among the sequences are brief homages to Stravinsky, Scarlatti, Ligeti, Farkas Ferenc as well as moments of variations on Bach chorales. The placement of these pieces is well conceived: there are I believe 8 books of these 'Games' and in some ways they are similar to Béla Bartók's 'Mikrokosmos', except instead of leading the pianist (and listener) through pieces requiring progressive virtuosity, they instead must lead the player's ear through more and more advanced manipulation of sounds and silences.
Some of the pieces are a matter of a few notes, others hammer the keyboard in percussive strokes, some pieces are homages to Marta and are played by the dedicatee alone. Just when the listener thinks there can not more creativity available from Kurtág he and his wife break into another immaculate transcription of Bach to let the palette settle. This is a satisfying program in every way. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, September 10
Some of the pieces are a matter of a few notes, others hammer the keyboard in percussive strokes, some pieces are homages to Marta and are played by the dedicatee alone. Just when the listener thinks there can not more creativity available from Kurtág he and his wife break into another immaculate transcription of Bach to let the palette settle. This is a satisfying program in every way. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, September 10
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