Játékok / Kurtág ; Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Kurtág, György, composer.

Contributor:

Aimard, Pierre-Laurent, instrumentalist.

Language:

English

French

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Piano music.

Genre:

Art music.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs (77 min., 57 sec. ; 47 min., 55 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[Baarn, The Netherlands] : Pentatone Classics, [2025]

System Details:

digital optical stereo

Contents:

Book I (1979) (3:35). 1b. Prelude and waltz in C (0:37) ; 3a. Flowers we are, frail flowers (0:27) ; 3b. Flowers we are, frail flowers (0:24) ; 9a. The bunny and the fox (0:32) ; 17a. Falling asleep (0:51) ; 17b. Flowers we are (0:39)

Book II (1979) (4:25). 2. Hommage à Jeney (phone numbers of our loved ones 1) (0:54) ; 4. Hommage à Vidovsky (phone numbers of our loved ones 2) (1:24) ; 5. Quarrelling (0:23) ; 28. Fifths (3) (0:25) ; 29. (Bunny rabbit in the grass) (0:17) ; 43. Antiphony in f-sharp (0:58)

Book III (1979) (8:49). 1. Stop and go (0:43) ; 2. Play with infinity (0:39) ; 4. (thus it happened) (1:23) ; 25. Hommage à Farkas Ferenc (2) scraps of a colinda melody. - faintly recollected (2:22) ; 26. Hommage à Farkas Ferenc (3) (evocation of Petrushka) (0:57) ; 30. Dirge (2) (0:47) ; 31. Hommage à Christian Wolff (half-asleep) (1:04) ; 39. Hommage à Kurtág Márta (0:51)

Book V (1997) (5:55). 6. A voice in the distance (for Alfred Schlee's 80th birthday) (1:33) ; 7. La fille aux cheveux de lin - enragée (1:33) ; 12. Preface to a Bálint exhibition (1:15) ; 39. bálint Dialog for the 70th birthday of András Mihaly (or: how can one answer to the same 4 sounds with only 3) (1:33) ; 42. In memoriam György Szoltsányi (2:22)

Book VI (1997) (20:55). 4. For Dóra Antal's birthday (1st version) (1:14) ; 6. Versetto: temptavit deus Abraham (apocryphal organum) (0:34) ; 7. Versetto: consurrexit cain adversus fratrem suum... (0:37) ; Versetto: dixit dominus ad noe: finis universe cranes venit... (0:58) ; Sirens of the deluge -waiting for Noah (0:35) ; 14. Päan (1:19) ; 28. Les adieux (in Janacek manier) (1:26) ; 30. András Hajdú is 60! (1:27) ; 32. In memoriam Tibor Szeszler (2:24) ; 33. Birthday elegy for Judit - for the second finger of her left hand (1:19) ; 34. Doina (2:24) ; 39. ..waiting for Susan... (1:19) ; 42. In memoriam Ernö Lendvai (0:55) ; 44. Lines for Zsuzsa Sirokay (1:39) ; 47. Face to face

Demény János in memoriam (0:38) ; 50. In memoriam András Mihaly (3:06)

Book VII (2003) (24:16). 2. For Georg Kröll's birthday (1:13) ; 6. ..and once again: shadow-play... (1:12) ; 9. Aus der ferne IV - hommage à Alfred Schlee 95 (1:49) ; 10. All'ongherese - hommage à Gösta Neuwirth 60 (1:32) ; 16. Roaming in the past - ligatura for Ligeti (2:22) ; 17. Hommage à Berényi Ferenc 70 (3:34) ; 20. In memoriam Llona Roznyai (2:34) ; 23. Hommage à Hanny Brunner-Pohl (3:00) ; 24. *** (I'm talking to my mother about Márta) (3:17) ; 26. Flowers we are... To Mijako (1:07) ; 27. Hommage à Beatrice Stein (1:48) ; 29. Memories, little tin soldiers... To Martha, for October 1st, 2000 (1:26) ; 30. In memoriam Johan van der Keuken (2:45) ; 31. Rodica lui lonescu -to Martha, for October 1st, 2001 (pianino) (3:24)

Book IX (2017) (19:07). 1. ...apple blossom... (pianino) (1:17) ; 5. Quiet dialogue - to Arpád Göncz with much love, friendship and respect (2:08) ; 6. Medal - in memoriam Lajos Hernádi (1:20) ; 7. ...jubilate... (0:57) ; 8. Hommage à georg kröll 70 (2:03) ; 9. Hommage à jehuda elkana 70 (2:02) ; 19. Second strictly Personal letter to András Szöllösy on his 85th birthday (1:22) ; 20. To András Wilheim (1:39) ; 22. Kedves kett (d)ö - to Márta on reaching (2:24) ; 23. Rituale - Kálmán Strém in memoriam (3:48)

Book X (2021) (9:57). 22. ...and yet another letter to Péter Eötvös... (1:30) ; 27. In memoriam Emil Petrovics (2:12) ; 29. Dialogue - Bálint Varga 70 (1:24) ; 30. A window on the corridor ... 1st october, 1946, Damjanich street 18 (1:46) ; 32. ...just so... (1:40) ; 33. A sketch leaf (rough-raw) (1:21)

Book XI (in manuscript, the publication is in progress) (18:51). Ligatura dolce - amara - amara dolce - to Márta (2:53) ; ...für Heinz... 2/2/2014 (1:02) ; ...wie soll ich... - to Márta for 1st october 30/9/2014 (2:30) ; Passio sine nomine 26/3/2015 (2:12) ; ...le chien... To Gyuri for his 66th from his father 13/10/2020 (2:03) ; Márta's ligature (pianino) 13/11/2020 (1:37) ; A la mémoire de Marcel Beccaccia 27/11/2020 (1:34) ; In memoriam Anna Holliger 21/6/2021 (pianino) (1:42) ; For Bea, in her deep sorrow 26/3/2021 (pianino) (1:22) ; Farewell - ...to my dear friend András Wilheim 25/1/2022 (pianino) (1:5).

Participant:

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano.

Notes:

An anthology of music from Kurtag's series of Games.

Program notes in English and French (26 pages ; illustrations) bound in container.

Title from disc label.

Recorded 27 June-1 July, 2022, and 20-25 June, 2024 Budapest Music Center, Budapest.

Contains:

Container of: Kurtág, György. Játékok. Selections

OCLC:

1522531964

Publisher Number:

8717306260305

5187 030 Pentatone Classics

PTC 5187 030 Pentatone Classics