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Kurtág: Játékok (Games) [Double Album]

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

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Kurtág: Játékok (Games) (Vol. 1)

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Star pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard presents an anthology from György Kurtág’s Játékok (Games). Recorded in the composer’s presence and under his artistic guidance. It includes a World Premiere Performance of the composer’s Book XI, a work still in progress.

In his extensive series of Játékok, Kurtág realizes the spontaneity of a child exploring the piano with the compositional means of his adventurous, avant-garde idiom. Recording such an extensive collection of Játékok is an important statement for Aimard, who has developed an intimate artistic friendship with the composer over decades.

The miniature nature of Kurtág’s Játékok makes them an unexpected, yet logical successor of Aimard’s acclaimed album Schubert Ländler (2024), which consisted of dances that the pianist often combines with Kurtág’s short pieces in live performances.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano

Tracklist

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1.
Book I - No. 1b, Prelude and Waltz in C
00:37
2.
Book I - No. 3a, Flowers We Are, Frail Flowers
00:27
3.
Book I - No. 3b, Flowers We Are, Frail Flowers
00:24
4.
Book I - No. 9a, The Bunny and the Fox
00:32
5.
Book I - No. 17a, Falling Asleep
00:51
6.
Book I - No. 17b, Flowers we are
00:39
7.
Book II - No. 2, Hommage a  Jeney (Phone numbers of our loved ones 1)
00:54
8.
Book II - No. 4, Hommage a  Vidovszky (Phone numbers of our loved ones 2)
01:24
9.
Book II - No. 5, Quarrelling
00:23
10.
Book II - No. 28, Fifths (3)
00:25
11.
Book II - No. 29, (bunny rabbit in the grass)
00:17
12.
Book II - No. 43, Antiphony in f-Sharp
00:58
13.
Book III - No. 1, Stop and Go
00:43
14.
Book III - No. 2, Play with infinity
00:39
15.
Book III - No. 4, (thus it happened)
01:23
16.
Book III - No. 25, Hommage a  Farkas Ferenc (2) Scraps of a colinda melody.- faintly recollected
02:22
17.
Book III - No. 26, Hommage a  Farkas Ferenc (3) (evocation of Petrushka)
00:57
18.
Book III - No. 30, Dirge (2)
00:47
19.
Book III - No. 31, Hommage a  Christian Wolff (Half-asleep)
01:04
20.
Book III - No. 39, Hommage a  Kurtag Marta
00:51
21.
Book V - No. 6, A voice in the Distance (for Alfred Schlee's 80th birthday)
01:33
22.
Book V - No. 7, La fille aux cheveux de lin - enragee
01:33
23.
Book V - No. 12, Preface to a Balint exhibition
01:15
24.
Book V - No. 39, Dialog for the 70th birthday of Andras Mihaly (or: how can one answer to the same 4
01:33
25.
Book V - No. 42, In memoriam Gyorgy Szoltsanyi
02:22
26.
Book VI. - No. 4, For Dora Antal's Birthday (1st version)
01:14
27.
Book VI. - No. 6, Versetto: Temptavit Deus Abraham (apocryphal organum)
00:34
28.
Book VI. - No. 7, Versetto: Consurrexit Cain adversus fratrem suum...
00:37
29.
Book VI. - Versetto: Dixit Dominus ad Noe: finis universe cranes venit...
00:58
30.
Book VI. - Sirens of the Deluge -Waiting for Noah
00:35
31.
Book VI. - No. 14, Paan
01:19
32.
Book VI. - No. 28, Les Adieux (in Janacek Manier)
01:58
33.
Book VI. - No. 30, Andras Hajdu is 60
01:19
34.
Book VI. - No. 32, In memoriam Tibor Szeszler
01:26
35.
Book VI. - No. 33, Birthday elegy for Judit - for the second finger of her left hand
01:27
36.
Book VI. - No. 34, Doina
02:24
37.
Book VI. - No. 39, ...waiting for Susan...
01:19
38.
Book VI. - No. 42, In memoriam Erno Lendvai
00:55
39.
Book VI. - No. 43, Lines for Zsuzsa Sirokay
01:39
40.
Book VI. - No. 47, Face to face - Demeny Janos in memoriam
00:38
41.
Book VI. - No. 50, In memoriam Andras Mihaly
03:06
42.
Book VII. - No. 2, For Georg Kroll's birthday
01:13
43.
Book VII. - No. 6, ...and once again : Shadow-play...
01:12
44.
Book VII. - No. 9, Aus der Ferne IV - Hommage a  Alfred Schlee 95
01:49
45.
Book VII. - No. 10, All'ongherese - Hommage Ãa Gosta Neuwirth 60
01:32
46.
Book VII. - No. 16, Roaming in the Past - Ligatura for Ligeti
02:22
47.
Book VII. - No. 17, Hommage a  Berenyi Ferenc 70
03:34
48.
Book VII. - No. 20, In memoriam Ilona Rozsnyai
02:34
49.
Book VII. - No. 23, Hommage a  Hanny Brunner-Pohl
03:00
50.
Book VII. - No. 24, *** (I'm talking to my mother about Marta)
03:17
51.
Book VII. - No. 26, Flowers We Are... to Mijako
01:07
52.
Book VII. - No. 27, Hommage a  Beatrice Stein
01:48
53.
Book VII. - No. 29, ...Memories, Little Tin Soldiers... To Martha, for October 1st, 2000
01:26
54.
Book VII. - No. 30, In memoriam Johan van der Keuken
02:45
55.
Book VII. - No. 31, Rodica lui Ionescu - To Martha, for October 1st, 2001 (pianino)
03:24

Total time: 01:17:24

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Release Date May 1, 2025

Kurtág: Játékok (Games) (Vol. 1)

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Kurtág: Játékok (Games) (Vol. 2)

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