György Kurtág: Játékok (Games) & Bach Transcriptions - Márta Kurtág & György Kurtág, Piano

On this CD:

1. Játékok (Games), for piano Flowers We Are Mere Flowers... (...embracing sounds)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

2. Transcription for piano of Bach's "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 687"
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

3. Játékok (Games), for piano Preludium and Chorale
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

4. Játékok (Games), for piano Knots
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

5. Játékok (Games), for piano Antiphone in F sharp
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

6. Játékok (Games), for piano Dirge 01
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

7. Játékok (Games), for piano Hommage a Christian Wolff (Half-asleep)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

8. Játékok (Games), for piano Play with Overtones
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

9. Játékok (Games), for piano Perpetuum mobile (Objet trouvé)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

10. Játékok (Games), for piano ...and once more: Flowers We Are...
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

11. Játékok (Games), for piano Beating-Quarrelling
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

12. Játékok (Games), for piano Study to "Hölderlin"
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

13. Transcription for piano of Bach's "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106" (Sonatina from "Actus tragicus")
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

14. Játékok (Games), for piano Bells (Hommage ŕ Stravinsky)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

15. Játékok (Games), for piano Furious Chorale
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

16. Játékok (Games), for piano Hoquetus
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

17. Játékok (Games), for piano Palm Stroke
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

18. Játékok (Games), for piano Bluebell
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

19. Játékok (Games), for piano Thistle
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

20. Játékok (Games), for piano Stubbunny
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

21. Játékok (Games), for piano Harmonica (Hommage ŕ Borsody László)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

22. Játékok (Games), for piano Hommage ŕ Domenico Scarlatti
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

23. Játékok (Games), for piano Aus der Ferne (To Alfred Schlee on this 80th birthday)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

24. Transcription for piano of an excerpt from Bach's "Trio sonata in E flat major, BWV 525"
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

25. Játékok (Games), for piano Dirge 1a
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

26. Játékok (Games), for piano Dirge 2 (In memoriam Ligeti Ilona)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

27. Játékok (Games), for piano Tumble-Bunny
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

28. Játékok (Games), for piano Hommage ŕ Kurtág Márta
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

29. Transcription for piano of Bach's "O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, BWV Deest"
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

30. Játékok (Games), for piano Evocation of Petrushka (Hommage ŕ Farkas Ferenc 3)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

31. Játékok (Games), for piano Adoration adoration accursed desolation... (Hommage ŕ Farkas Ferenc 4)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

32. Játékok (Games), for piano Hommage ŕ Soproni (In memoriam matris carissimae)
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

33. Játékok (Games), for piano Hommage ŕ Halmágyi Mihály
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

34. Játékok (Games), for piano Scraps of a colinda melody-faintly recollected (Hommage ŕ Farkas Ferenc )
Composed by Gyorgy Kurtag
with Gyorgy Kurtag , Marta Kurtag

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Kurtag: Jatekok / Marta and Gyorgy Kurtag
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • jatekok transcend being just sketches.imbued with something special.
  • Uneven but often entertaining piano miniatures
  • Jewel-like modernist piano music
  • Extraordinary music superbly played
 Kurtag: Jatekok / Marta and Gyorgy Kurtag
Marta Kurtag
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ASIN: B0000266O8
Release Date: 2000-03-07

Tracks:

  1. Blumen die Menschen, nur Blumen...(...sich umschlingende Tone)
  2. Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (BWV 687) - In memoriam Joannis Pilinszky
  3. Praludium und Choral
  4. Knoten
  5. Antiphone in fis
  6. Klagegesang 1
  7. Hommage a Christian Wolff
  8. Spiel mit Obertonen
  9. Prepetuum mobile (objet trouve)
  10. ...und noch einmal: Blumen die Menschen...
  11. Schlage-Zank
  12. Studie zu 'Holderlin'
  13. Sonatina aus 'Actus tragicus' (BWV 106): Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
  14. Hommage a Strawinsky: Glocken
  15. Zorniger Choral
  16. Hoquetus
  17. Mit den Handflachen
  18. Glockenblume
  19. Distel
  20. Haschen Trotzig
  21. Hommage a Borsody Laszlo: Harmonika
  22. Hommage a Domenico Scarlatti
  23. Alfred Schlee zum 80. Geburtstag: Aus de Ferne
  24. Triosonate in Es-Dur I, 1 (BWV 525)
  25. Klagegesang 1a
  26. In memoriam Ligeti IIona: Klagegesang 2
  27. Hampeln - Strampeln
  28. Hommage a Kurtag Marta
  29. O Lamm Gottes unschuldig (BWV Deest): J.S. Bach: O Lamm Gottes unschuldig (BWV Deest)
  30. Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 3: Petruschkas Beschworung
  31. Liebe im Herzen, bittere Schmerzen...: Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 4
  32. Hommage a Soproni: In memoriam matris carissimae
  33. Hommage a Halmagyi Mihaly
  34. Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 2: Erinnerungsbrocken aus eine Kolindenmelodie

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars jatekok transcend being just sketches.imbued with something special........2006-07-09

Kurtag has a very precise sense of what he hears but is often at a loss to find an effective means of notation (the Jatekok pieces with their flimsy notation are a good example)and then has fierce confrontions with players when they don't realise his intentions.
For all this shoddy behaviour, the results aren't without an appeal,somehow transcending (only just)being a mere sketch.Most moving are the Bach transcriptions which are beautifully delivered by the fearsome duo of kurtag with his wife.They emerge seamlessley from the Jatekok.

4 out of 5 stars Uneven but often entertaining piano miniatures.......2004-01-07

This disc, featuring György and Márta Kurtág playing selections from György's collection of pieces for piano (both two- and four-hands), Játékok, was one of the discs that helped to boost Kurtág's once-low profile outside his native Hungary. The fifty minutes of music on this disc contain thirty-four pieces dating from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, four of which are four-handed transcriptions from Bach, the other thirty of which are original Kurtág creations (sometimes arranged for piano from works for other instrumental/vocal combinations).

Of these thirty, ten are four-handed works played by both Kurtágs, while husband and wife share piano duty on the twenty two-handed works. Many of the original works are very short, with eighteen clocking in at under a minute, and half of these under forty seconds. This inevitably means that some--though not all--of the very short works are distinctly slight, though this is compensated for by the inclusion of more substantial achievements such as Präludium und Choral, Hommage à Christian Wolff, Glocken and Aus der Ferne. Stylistically, these compositions range widely and eclectically: Webernian-sounding miniatures rub shoulders with constructivist atonality, bizarre flights of whimsy and even evocations of folk music and long-dead composers. Nonetheless, the works here that leave me with the strongest impression are the four Bach transcriptions, whose contrapuntal clarity, fidelity to the original and sheer joy remind me of Busoni.

This doesn't strike me as an essential Kurtág disc, at least in part because I tend to find the Játékok pieces work best in smaller doses than 50 minutes. In addition, some of then are probably more fun to play than to listen to. Nonetheless, fans of the composer will want to hear this selection--particularly in such authoritative performances--but newcomers would do better with the Keller Quartet's stunning string quartet collection (also on ECM).

5 out of 5 stars Jewel-like modernist piano music.......2002-12-11

This is one of my favorite piano music recordings. Kurtag's piano pieces, each dedicated to a friend or hero, are like miniature musical portraits composed by a master artist. They are tiny, intricate, and gestural. His music tends toward the aphoristic, saying a lot with very few notes. Some pieces are less than a minute long. And yet they have the feel of the eternal about them. The sound is beautiful.

5 out of 5 stars Extraordinary music superbly played.......2002-03-04

This is one of the finest CDs of contemporary piano music I have ever heard. The music is spare, fragmented, and frequently "empty" -- not empty of content, but empty in the way the Grand Canyon is empty. Not knowing very much about Zen I will still venture to say that Kurtag's music has Zen-like qualities of intense concentration, absence of ornamentation for it own sake, quietude, rigorousness, micro- and macro-scopic examination of its subject, seriousness offset with moments of whimsy, and even, though how I know this I don't know, morality. Not prudery, but real morality. This is music that grapples, as much as music ever can, with the Big Problems. Death, love, loyalty and rememberance are frequent themes. There is a deeply religious, almost monastic, quality to much of the music. It is therefore perfectly fitting that the recording is held up by four columns -- four transcriptions of Bach chorales, at least two of which are among the finest transcriptions of these much transcribed works as I have ever heard (easily in a class with Busoni, Kempff and Hess). For Bach lovers alone this is a great recording to have. Ditto for lovers of contemporary music. For Bach lovers who also love contemporary music, this is an essential recording -- not to be missed. Outstanding in every respect.
György Kurtág: Játékok; Szálkák; Grabstein für Stephan
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    		György Kurtág: Játékok; Szálkák; Grabstein für Stephan

    Manufacturer: Stradivarius
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    ASIN: B000N4SA3W
    Release Date: 2007-05-08

    Tracks:

    1. Flowers We Are/Aus Tiefer Not BWV 687/Prelude And Chorale/Knots/Antiphony In F Shar/Dirge/Hommage A Christian Wolff (Half Asleep)/Perpetuum Mobile (Object Trouve)/...And Once More: Flowers We Are.../Beating/Study To Holderlin/Sonatina From Cantata...
    2. Szlalkak - Ildiko Vekomy
    3. Palm Excercise/Bluebell/Thistle/Stubbunny/A Voice In The Distance/Tumble Bunny/Hommage A Marta Kurtag/O Lamm Gottes Unschuldig BWV 618/Hommage A Soprani (In Memoriam Matris Carssimae)/Hommage A Mihaly Halmagyi/Scraps Of A Colinda Melody
    4. Grabstein Fur Stephan - Elena Casoli

    Album Description

    "Every gesture was transformed into poetry by the Kurtags' performance." -- The Guardian

    Hungarian composer György Kurtág (b. 1926) is one of the leading lights of contemporary music, as evidenced in strong audience response and vigorous CD sales. Játékok ["Games"] is an assembly of tiny pieces for piano solo and piano duet that Kurtág has been writing since the 1970s. Szálkák is a work for solo cimbalom, the unique Hungarian instrument first made famous in the classic film The Third Man.
    György Kurtág: Játékok (Games) & Bach Transcriptions - Márta Kurtág & György Kurtág, Piano
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      		György Kurtág: Játékok (Games) & Bach Transcriptions - Márta Kurtág & György Kurtág, Piano

      Manufacturer: Ecm Records
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B00000320A
      Release Date: 1997-10-14

      Tracks:

      1. Blumen die Menschen, nur Blumen...(...sich umschlingende Tone)
      2. Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (BWV 687) - In memoriam Joannis Pilinszky
      3. Praludium und Choral
      4. Knoten
      5. Antiphone in fis
      6. Klagegesang 1
      7. Hommage a Christian Wolff
      8. Spiel mit Obertonen
      9. Prepetuum mobile (objet trouve)
      10. ...und noch einmal: Blumen die Menschen...
      11. Schlage-Zank
      12. Studie zu 'Holderlin'
      13. Sonatina aus 'Actus tragicus' (BWV 106): Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
      14. Hommage a Strawinsky: Glocken
      15. Zorniger Choral
      16. Hoquetus
      17. Mit den Handflachen
      18. Glockenblume
      19. Distel
      20. Haschen Trotzig
      21. Hommage a Borsody Laszlo: Harmonika
      22. Hommage a Domenico Scarlatti
      23. Alfred Schlee zum 80. Geburtstag: Aus de Ferne
      24. Triosonate in Es-Dur I, 1 (BWV 525)
      25. Klagegesang 1a
      26. In memoriam Ligeti IIona: Klagegesang 2
      27. Hampeln - Strampeln
      28. Hommage a Kurtag Marta
      29. O Lamm Gottes unschuldig (BWV Deest): J.S. Bach: O Lamm Gottes unschuldig (BWV Deest)
      30. Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 3: Petruschkas Beschworung
      31. Liebe im Herzen, bittere Schmerzen...: Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 4
      32. Hommage a Soproni: In memoriam matris carissimae
      33. Hommage a Halmagyi Mihaly
      34. Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 2: Erinnerungsbrocken aus eine Kolindenmelodie

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