Bartók's music is of paramount importance for all Hungarian composers of the last hundred years: in the works of György Kurtág we also find open or hidden references to the great predecessor at severa...
They are arrangements from 'Játékok' made in the following sequence of movements: Fanfare I. - Dirge I. - Beating I. - Dirge II. - Fanfare II. - Hommage á Paganini (La nuova campanella) - Appendix: Be...
Begun in 1999, the work, which is Kurtág s fourth string quartet, had been completed in 2005. In this suite of 6 movements Kurtág reuses music from other compositions, most often from his long-running...
The work was dedicated to the Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher Jen Takács (1902-2005) for his 100th birthday. The hitherto unpublished short piece will be premiered by the Staatskapel...
Publication of György Kurtág's string chamber music is a long-awaited event: his chamber music master courses and the recording made by the Orlando Trio have aroused considerable interest in these wor...
The premiere of the so called 'third string quartet' composed in 1988/89 was given on the 1989 Witten Festival in the rendering of the Auryn Quartet.
