György Kurtag Noten für Ensemble

It was the Paris premiere in 1981 of Messages of the Late R. V. Troussova that brought the world's attention to the music of György Kurtág (born 1926). The spectrum of these feminine poems in Russian...

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)

The first performance of György Kurtág'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...

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...

Anlässlich der Uraufführung von Hommage a Mihály András besuchte György Kurtág 1978 Witten und lernte dort die Lehrer der Waldorfschule Witten-Herdecke kennen. Zur Erinnerung an diese Begegnung schuf...

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...

The original version of the piece, Message to Frances Marie, op. 31a was composed for cello solo with two bows for the American cellist Frances Marie Uitti. The subtitle refers to the title of a compo...

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...

The work was written for the Piccoli Archi Youth Ensemble in Ny regyháza and its conductor Nándor Tóth for the 20th anniversary of the ensemble. At the festive concert on 23 October 2004 the short pie...