Composer: Johannes Brahms, György Kurtág, Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Benjamin Appl, György Kurtág, James Baillieu, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Csaba Bencze, Gergely Lukác
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1145
Release: 2025
Size: 0.99 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Kurtág: Circumdederunt
02. Schubert: Ganymed, D544 (Goethe)
03. Kurtág: Das Angenehme dieser Welt…
04. Schubert: Totengräbers Heimwehe D842 (Craigher)
05. Kurtág: Nun versteh‘ ich…
06. Schubert: Im Frühling, D882
07. Schubert: Dass sie hier gewesen! D775 (Rückert)
Kurtág: Hölderlin-Gesänge, for baritone, Op. 35a
08. No. 1, An. . .
09. No. 2, Im Walde
10. No. 3, Gestalt und Geist
11. No. 4, An Zimmern
12. No. 5, Der Spaziergang
13. No. 6, Tübingen, Jänner
14. Schubert: Der Wanderer an den Mond D870 (Seidl)
15. Schubert: Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D343
16. Kurtág: Die Rosen
17. Kurtág: Die Zeit
18. Kurtág: Ich weiss nicht…
19. Kurtág: Physalis alkagengi
20. Schubert: Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D300 (Salis-Seewis)
21. Brahms: 5 Lieder, Op. 47: No. 3, Sonntag
22. Appl: Interview with György Kurtág
Benjamin Appl met Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag in 2019 and has worked with him ever since. ‘He has shaped me both as a musician and as a human being, perhaps more than anyone else,’ says Appl.
This album alternates Romantic German lieder by Schubert and Brahms with vocal pieces by Kurtag, five of which are world premiere recordings. Kurtag himself is at the piano for two of the songs by Schubert and Brahms; while the German baritone’s old and trusted friends Pierre-Laurent Aimard and James Baillieu join him for the other works in this programme, all under the artistic direction of Kurtag, ending with a fascinating recorded interview with Gyuri bacsi (‘Uncle George’) by Benjamin Appl, who tells us: ‘My aim in this album is to give listeners a glimpse into the infinite universe of Gyorgy Kurtag, a shy procrastinator, stern self-critic, hesitant researcher, introverted questioner, unpretentious intellectual, brilliant composer and an extraordinary human being.’
