Composer: György Kurtág, György Ligeti
Performer: Kim Kashkashian
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: ECM
Release: 2012
Size: 478 MB
Recovery: +3%
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György Kurtág:
Signs, Games And Messages For Viola Solo
01. In Nomine – all’ongherese (Damjanich emlékkő)
02. Csendes sorok Dobszay Lászlónak
03. Levél Ligeti Verának
04. Zöld erdőből magyar nóta
05. Kromatikus feleselős
06. Virág Zsigmondy Dénesnek
07. In memoriam Blum Tamás
08. In memoriam Aczél György
09. H.J. – nóta
10. Vagdalkozós
11. The Carenza Jig
12. Kroó György in memoriam
13. Hommage à John Cage (Elakadó Szavak)
14. Doloroso
15. Perpetuum mobile
16. Jelek I
17. Jelek II
18. Négy összefonódó test – Gerlóczy Sári kiállítására
19. Panaszos nóta
György Ligeti:
Sonata for Viola Solo
20. 1. Hora lungă
21. 2. Loop
22. 3. Facsar
23. 4. Prestissimo con sordino
24. 5. Lamento
25. 6. Chaconne chromatique
Recorded: 2011-05-17
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold
The great viola player Kim Kashkashian has long been one of the most outstanding protagonists of modern composition and this bold and subtle account of solo music by the great Hungarian composers György Kurtág and György Ligeti is a landmark recording. Kurtág’s Signs, Games and Messages (1989- in progress) in its 19 aphoristic sections is as demanding as Ligeti’s Sonata for viola (1991-94), but Kashkashian surmounts the very different challenges of the works, and points towards the qualities that unite these composers. As ever, she gets to the heart of the music, and unravels its secrets.
In his liner note, Wolfgang Sandner comments: “For twenty years Kim Kashkashian has devoted herself to Kurtág’s complex oeuvre for the viola and developed a remarkable rapport for the relation between compositional fabric and sonic nuance. In the thoughtful dramaturgical sequence of this recording, and in Kashkashian’s scrupulous reading, these Kurtág pieces, and the six movements of Ligeti’s Viola Sonata that follows them, seem like the work of a single visionary artist – conveyed in hidden signs and coded messages.”
Amongst her many notable albums for ECM New Series, Kashkashian has recorded Kurtág’s Movement for viola and orchestra (4654202) and also his Nine Pieces for Solo Viola, the early Jelek for viola, op 5, and the chamber work Hommage à R.Sch. (4379572). This is the ninth disc on the label devoted in whole or in part to Kurtág’s music.