Chamber Music with Voice SKU: HL.50512013
For Sopran Solo and Chamber Ensemble. Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag. Contemporary Music. EMB. Score. Composed 2013. Op. 41. 64 pages. Duration 15'. Editio Musica Budapest #Z14212. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (HL.50512013). ISBN 9790080142127. A/4 inches. Russian. Gyorgy Kurtag.
The first performance of Gyorgy Kurtag's song-cycle written to poems by Anna Akhmatova took place on January 3rd, 2009, in the Carnegie Hall, New York. In this work it is evidence of the exceptionally intimate relationship between the text and the music, that the composer originally imagined the songs as a single vocal solo. The parts for the instrumental ensemble, with their characteristic colours, only later became paired with the vocal solo. The Russian language and the identification with the female figure make the Akhmatova songs an organic sequel or rather a belated successor to the song-cycles Messages of the late R.V. Troussova and Scenes from a Novel. (Zoltan Farkas).
