Kurtág: Játékok (Games) (Vol. 1)

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Kurtág: Játékok (Games) (Vol. 1)

Label Pentatone

Artists Pierre-Laurent Aimard

€29,99 EUR

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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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Total time: 01:06:54

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

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Additional Information

Label

Pentatone

SKU

PTC51870301

Qualities

DSD 512, DSD 256, FLAC 192 kHz, DSD 128, FLAC 96 kHz, DSD 64, DXD 24 Bit

Channels

2ch Stereo

Artists

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Composers

Kurtag

Genres

Classical

Original Recording Format

PCM 96k

Release Date

May 15, 2025

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Kurtág: Játékok (Games) (Vol. 1)

Kurtág: Játékok (Games) (Vol. 1)

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