1-19. for piano four hands 20. for piano six hands 21-27. for two pianos
This edition continues the series of György Kurtág's Bach transcriptions for piano duet which were published in 'Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach' and 'Seven Bach Chorales'. These pieces were...
Die vorliegende Sammlung ist der Anhang zum Band 'Übertragungen von Machaut bis J. S. Bach' von György Kurtag. Diese Stücke entstanden ursprünglich zum eigenen Gebrauch des Ehepaars Kurtag, Marta und...
Mit den Schriften György Ligetis legt die Paul Sacher Stiftung die erste umfangreiche Textedition dieses herausragenden Komponisten der jüngeren Musikgeschichte vor. Die zentralen Essays finden sich h...
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 Kurt...
The polymath, naturalist and aesthetician Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) is an interesting figure of 18th-century German cultural history. Yet his most important work, his collection of aphor...
Bartók's music is of paramount importance for all Hungarian composers of the last hundred years: in the works of György Kurtág we also find open or hidden references to the great predecessor at severa...
Signs, Games and Messages are series for solo instruments and small chamber ensembles. Each of the three notions refers to an essential factor in Kurtág s music. Signs ties it with the composer s peri...
Die Herausgabe von György Kurtágs Kammermusik für Streicher stellt ein lang ersehntes Ereignis dar: Die von ihm veranstalteten Meisterkurse und die Schallplattenaufnahme desOrlando Trios lösten gegenü...
Signs, games and messages are compositions of differing length, written for different occasions: musical letters, tributes, playful games with instrumental technique. In the past year pieces for violi...
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 i...
Three old inscriptions, Op. 25 to a Hungarian folk text, words on a Transylvanian mangle and the epitaph of a young German girl in a Hungarian village cemetery, for soprano and piano (in Hungarian and...
Die ersten fünf Gesänge dieses Zyklus' sind Vertonungen des deutschen Dichters der Romantik Friedrich Hölderlin (177-1843). Der 6. Satz ist ein Kommentar des Dichters Paul Celan (192-197) über Hölderl...
I wanted for musicians to not be able to discuss how bad the music was during rehearsals, ' said György Kurtág (* 1926) at his own expense in reference to his works, which call for the use of orchestr...
For the performance of the work three playing scores are needed. The enclosed parts are incomplete, and serve only to help the page turning. (BMC CD 048)
For György Kurtág, Mussorgsky's works have always been an important model. Several of his works contain pieces referring to Mussorgsky (Games III, The Small Snag), and in his opera, Fin de partie, he...
Diese Übertragung einiger Stücke aus ‚Játékok' hat die folgende Satzfolge: Fanfare I. - Klagegesang I. - Schläge I. - Klagegesang II. - Fanfare II. - Hommage á Paganini (La nuova campanella) - Appendi...
Kurtág begann 1999 die Komposition seines vierten Streichquartetts und beendete sie 2005. In dieser Suite aus sechs Sätzen verwendet Kurtág die Musik von anderen Kompositionen, größtenteils aus seinem...
The work was dedicated to the Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher Jen Takács (1902-2005) for his 100th birthday. The hitherto unpublished short piece will be premiered by the Staatskapel...
Signs, Games and Messages are series for solo instruments and small chamber ensembles. Each of the three notions refers to an essential factor in Kurtág's music. Signs ties in with the composer's peri...
The premiere of the so called 'third string quartet' composed in 1988/89 was given on the 1989 Witten Festival in the rendering of the Auryn Quartet.
