捷爾吉．庫爾塔克 György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages (CD) 【ECM】

The first new album by Kurtág in six years is a major event. Kurtág was always a master of the miniature – no tone or texture, no grain of sound is wasted – but now his work is more concentrated than ever. The work on “Signs, Games and Messages” represents a pinnacle of Kurtág’s art of achieving the ultimate in expression by the most minimal of means. The album is comprised of settings of Hölderlin (and Paul Celan) in the “Hölderlin-Gesänge”, sung by Kurt Widmer, and of Beckett (and Sébastien Chamfort) in “ … pas à pas – nulle part …”, sung by Widmer with string trio and percussion. The two song cycles are linked by the work-in-progress that gives the album its title: “Signs, Games and Messages” for strings. The three cycles recorded here – and to which the distinguished interpreters gave years of intense collaboration – comprise between them a total of 59 tracks, only one of which goes beyond three minutes in duration. More than any composer before him, Kurtág has mastered the art of the expressive musical aphorism – or, as he self-deprecatingly puts it, “making music out of almost nothing.” But as England’s The Guardian said, “A whole world of expression and suggestion can be packed into these exquisite, crystalline forms.”

Kurt Widmer - Baritone
Orlando Trio
Hiromi Kikuchi - Violin
Ken Hakii - Viola
Stefan Metz - Violoncello
Mircea Ardeleanu - Percussion
Heinrich Huber - Trombone
David LeClair - Tuba

【曲目】
Hölderlin-Gesänge op. 35a
01. An... - hommage à D.E. Sattle
02. Im Walde - für Georg Kröll
03. Gestalt und Geist col trombone e tuba - hommage à Alexander Polzin
04. An Zimmern - für Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus
05. Der Spaziergang - für Heinz Holliger
06. Paul Celan: Tübingen, Jänner - Robert klein in Erinnerung

Signs, Games & Messages
07. Virág az ember, Mijakónak
08. Im Volkston (Népdalféle) - Horváth Juditnak
09. Hommage à J.S.B.
10. Zank - Kromatisch
11. The Carenta Jig
12. Ligatura Y
13. Jelek (Signs) I - Székács Jánosnak
14. Jelek (Signs) II - Székács Jánosnak
15. Klagendes Lied (Panaszos nóta)
16 Jelek (Signs) III
17 Eine Blume für Dénes Zsigmondy - in memoriam Anneliese Nissen-Zsigmondy
18. In memoriam Tamás Blum
19. Perpetuum mobile A - Vadas Ágnesnek
20. Perpetuum mobile B
21. Hommage à John Cage
22. Schatten - Perényi Miklósnak
23. Jelek (Signs) I - Perènyi Miklósnak
24. János Pilinszky: Gérard de Nerval - Kocsis Zoltának
25. Virág az ember, Mijakónak

...pas à pas - nulle part... op. 36 26. Introduzione
27. ...pas à pas - nulle part...
28. le nain - hommage à Roland Moser
29. octave - message à Pierre Boulez
30. ...le tout petit macabre-Ligetinek ...imagine...
31. octave (double) - à Isabelle Kurtág
32. écoute-les
33. berceuse - hommage à Heinz Holliger
34. Intermezzo I
35. ...d'où la voix...
36. elles viennent... - hommage à Gösta Neuwirth
37. rêve - hommage à Henri Pousseur
38. apparition - à Jehuda Elkana
39. fous... - à Annamarie Brunner
40. fin fond de néant... - hommage à Eric Satie
41. en face le pire...
42. inventaire - hommage à Jan van Vlijmen
43. Intermezzo II
44. Dieppe - hommage à Francois Sulyok
45. La calma
46. Intermezzo III
47. mouvement
48. de pied ferme
49. ...levons l'ancre...
50. du coeur de l'homme.../how hollow heart
51. sleep...
52. oblivion, sweet oblivion - hommage à Christian Wolff
53. "Lasciate ogni speranza"
54. a shocking case - ...a little song for Liz Baker
55. Valse - hommage à Helmut Lachenmann
56. Intermezzo IV - Pizzicato keringö - hommage à Ránki György
57. Méditation
58. ...une découverte bouleversante
59. asking for salve and solace - hommage à Merran Joy Poplar

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編號：ECM1730
條碼：0028946183328