György Kurtág: Jatekok - Games - Spiele 3: Piano: Instrumental Album

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it caress it attack it and run their fingers over it. They pile up seemingly disconnected sounds and if this happens to arouse their musical instinct they look consciously for some of the harmonies found by chance and keep repeating them. Thus this series does not provide a tutor nor does it simply stand as a collection of pieces. It is a possibility for experimenting and not for learning 'to play the piano'.Pleasure in playing the joy of movement - daring and if need be fast movement over the entire keyboard right fromthe first lessons instead of clumsy groping for keys and the counting of rhythms - all these rather vague ideas lay at the outset of the creation of this collection.