In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who had been his student in earlier years and who, even today, is one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course o…

Par KURTAG GYORGY. György Kurtà¡g (né en 1926) a toujours refusé de parler sur la musique, et sur la sienne en particulier. Les témoignages ici rassemblés, et tout particuliêrement les trois entretiens réalisés par Bà¡lint Andrà¡s Varga, constituent donc un témoignage précieux. La parole souvent hésitante de Kurtà¡g est un parole de vérité : l'homme se livre tout entier, laissant apparaître l'univ…

10 Stücke Für Oboe (Auch Oboe D'Amore und Englisch Horn) und Harfe. This collection contains musical birthday greetings to composers and instrumentalists who are close friends of Heinz Holliger. The very different pieces were created over a period of 15 years for the duo Ursula and Heinz Holliger. Among the recipients of these birthday compositions were Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, Robert Suter,…

Cours de langue en musique !Une grande partie du répertoire piano contemporain disponible est assez inaccessible aux élèves des capacités techniques modérées. Dans cet esprit, Anne-Lise Gastaldi and Valérie Haluk approché et participé à plusieurs compositeurs, dont chacun a un langage musical particulièrement caractéristique de notre époque, demandant une composition originale pour nos jeunes pian…

There's a taxi waiting for Chekhov, but he'd rather go on foot.. Par EOTVOS PETER. Right at the beginning, this funny encore piece has the string quartet imitate the squawking horn of a car from 1901. The following polyrhythmic and somewhat slow chorale may suggest that Chekhov actually did not make his decision easy for himself… 'Encore' is dedicated to Peter Eötvös' Hungarian fellow composer and…

The work was composed in 1992 for the 85th birthday of Kurtág's teacher, Sándor Veress. The ensemble of instruments is unusual: two basset horns and two quarter-tone pianos (the well-known predecessor of the latter is Charles Ives' Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos). The special tuning in this case is not that the tonality moves in an ultra-chromatic direction, rather that it makes the cont…

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Tagebucheintragungen, persönliche Botschaften. Par KURTAG GYORGY. The piano series entitled Games, written from 1973 onwards, was conceived as a piano method. As the years went by, the series lost its didactic character, at it came to be seen as a document from Kurtág's workshop, offering a key to his grander symphonic, chamber and vocal works as well.Tenth volume is divided into two parts: In the…

UE's successful collaboration with pianist-teachers Anne-Lise Gastaldi and Valérie Haluk has given rise to a new project. Following Piano Project (UE 33662), which was released in 2006, an illustrious selection of contemporary composers has once again been invited to contribute short piano pieces for young musicians who have completed around four years of piano lessons. The new project aims to bri…

111 Werke, die man kennen sollte. Par LEOPOLD SILKE / REDEPENNING DOROTHEA / STEINHEUER . / Livre / Divers