0281-0 CD
György Kurtág
Complete Flute Music
Markus Brönnimann and friends
EAN/barcode: 4009850028109
The desire to record all of the works for an instrument already during the lifetime of a composer points to his importance and charisma. Despite the uncertainty: will he write something else? This was also the case with TACET 129, after Erika Haase (1935 - 2013) set herself the life-long task of recording all the pieces for piano by another ‘great’ of contemporary Hungarian music, György Ligeti. Now György Kurtág, a master of the miniature almost like Anton Webern. All his works for flute, initiated and congenially played by Markus Brönnimann and friends. The very first note should, no, must contain the whole world. Many of Kurtág's pupils know this only too well, as they often didn't get past the first bars in their lessons. Because he succeeds in this concentration, this evaporation to the essentials, Kurtág only needs a few notes to create a complete little univers in which nothing is missing. The 36 tracks bear ample witness to this!
Tracks
Nr. No. N° |
Werk - Satz Composition - movement Oeuvre - mouvement |
Komponist Composer Compositeur |
Künstler Artist Interprète |
Dauer Duration Durée |
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1 | Bagatelles op. 14/d for flute, double bass and piano | Furious Chorale | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Ilka Emmert Michael Kleiser | 0:43 |
2 | Hommage à J. S. B. | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Ilka Emmert Michael Kleiser | 01:34 | |
3 | Like the flowers of the field | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Ilka Emmert Michael Kleiser | 1:30 | |
4 | Wild and Tame | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Ilka Emmert Michael Kleiser | 1:08 | |
5 | Flowers we are, mere flowers | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Ilka Emmert Michael Kleiser | 1:18 | |
6 | La fille aux cheveux de lin – enragée | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Ilka Emmert Michael Kleiser | 1:29 | |
7 | Scenes op. 39 for flute solo | Ballad | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:37 |
8 | Echoes – Back and Forth | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:40 | |
9 | ... preparations, experiments for the creation of a perpetuum mobile ... | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 3:30 | |
10 | A Faltering Confession | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:07 | |
11 | In the Language of the Birds | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:05 | |
12 | Pondering | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:17 | |
13 | Wild and Passionate | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 0:42 | |
14 | Memories of Gyimes | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:08 | |
15 | Epilogue [ ... rêveries d’un promeneur solitaire ... ] | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Michael Kleiser | 2:00 | |
16 | Signs, Games and Messages | ... c’erano due fiori ... (flute and bass flute) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Christophe Nussbaumer | 1:00 |
17 | ... après une lecture de Rimbaud ... (flute solo) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:43 | |
18 | Doloroso (flute solo) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:43 | |
19 | ... ein Brief aus der Ferne an Ursula ... (flute solo) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:47 | |
20 | Myriam Marbé in memoriam (2 flutes and alto flute) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Aniela Stoffels Christophe Nussbaumer | 2:41 | |
21 | Herdecker Eurythmie op. 14/a for flute and lyre | Eigensinn | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Thomas Leins | 0:48 |
22 | Hommage à J. S. B. | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Thomas Leins | 1:24 | |
23 | Blumen die Menschen ... (1) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Thomas Leins | 0:34 | |
24 | Zank und Sanftmut | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Thomas Leins | 0:47 | |
25 | Blumen die Menschen ... (2) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Thomas Leins | 0:34 | |
26 | Signs, Games and Messages | Jauchzet und frohlocket! Auf! Schwung! (flute solo) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 0:47 |
27 | Épitaphe (2 flutes) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Aniela Stoffels | 0:48 | |
28 | Bref message à Pierre Boulez (flute solo) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:27 | |
29 | Hommage à J. S. B. (flute solo) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:23 | |
30 | Plaintive Pleading (flute and piano) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Michael Kleiser | 1:33 | |
31 | Anna Holliger in memoriam (flute solo) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann | 1:32 | |
32 | Joli oiseau – en pantomime (baritone and bass flute) | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Michel de Souza | 1:23 | |
33 | Die kleine Klemme op. 15b for piccolo, trombone and guitar | Fanfare in the Manner of Mussorgsky | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Guillaume Lebowski Hany Heshmat | 1:05 |
34 | Hymn in the Manner of Stravinsky | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Guillaume Lebowski Hany Heshmat | 0:58 | |
35 | Scherzo | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Guillaume Lebowski Hany Heshmat | 1:27 | |
36 | Nachtstück | György Kurtág (1926) | Markus Brönnimann Guillaume Lebowski Hany Heshmat | 2:54 |
total playing time: 52:26
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