Játékok — György Kurtág

Tracklist · 50 Tracks · 1h 9m

Act 1: Heaven and Hell – Játékok, Book VII: No. 14, A flower for Márta

1:10

Act 1: Heaven and Hell – Játékok, Book I: No. 3, Perpetuum mobile (objet trouvé)

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Act 1: Heaven and Hell – Játékok, Book II: No. 31, Bluebell

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Act 1: Heaven and Hell – Játékok, Book II: No. 43, Antiphony in F sharp

0:46

Act 1: Heaven and Hell – Játékok, Book III: No. 2, Play with Infinity

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Act 1: Heaven and Hell – Játékok, Book III: No. 3, The Mind Will Have its Freedom…

1:03

Act 1: Heaven and Hell – Játékok, Book III: No. 5, (quiet talk with the devil)

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Act 1: Heaven and Hell – Játékok, Book III: No. 12, Thistle

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Act 1: Heaven and Hell – Játékok, Book III: No.7, (Scherzo)

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Act 2: The Human World – Játékok, Book III: No. 25, Hommage to Farkas Ferenc (2) Scraps of a colinda melody – faintly recollected

2:24

Act 2: The Human World – Játékok, Book III: No. 26, Hommage to Farkas Ferenc (3) (evocation of Petrushka)

0:56

Act 2: The Human World – Játékok, Book III: No. 27, Hommage to Farkas Ferenc (4) (Adoration, adoration, accursed desolation…)

2:18

Act 2: The Human World – Játékok, Book VI: No. 27, In dark days – for Ferenc Farkas

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Act 2: The Human World – Játékok, Book VII: No. 7, Hommage to Farkas Ferenc 90

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Act 2: The Human World – Játékok, Book VI: No. 3, Versetto: Temptavit Deus Abraham… organum apocryphe

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Act 2: The Human World – Játékok, Book VI: No. 4, Versetto: Consurrexit Cain adversus fratrem suum…

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Act 2: The Human World – Játékok, Book VI: No. 5, Versetto: Dixit Dominus ad Noe: finis universe carnis venit

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Act 3: To Márta Kurtág – Játékok, Book III: No. 39, Hommage to Kurtág Márta

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Act 3: To Márta Kurtág – Játékok, Book VII: No. 31, To Márta, for October 1st 2001

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Act 3: To Márta Kurtág – Játékok, Book X: No. 21, Babysitters dancing on the carpet, a postcard from 1946

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Act 3: To Márta Kurtág – Játékok, Book IX: No. 22, To Márta on reaching 80

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Act 3: To Márta Kurtág – Játékok, Book X: No. 8, … tousling and rolling… to Márta at 75

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Act 3: To Márta Kurtág – Játékok, Book X: No. 9, … memories, little tin soldiers, to Márta at 73… (3rd version)

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Act 3: To Márta Kurtág – Játékok, Book X: No. 12, To Márta at 81

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Act 3: To Márta Kurtág – Játékok, Book X: No. 16, … Darling – two – three… to Márta at 82

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Act 3: To Márta Kurtág – Játékok, Book X: No. 30, A window on the corridor, 1946…

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book III: No. 9, Pen Drawing, Valediction to Erzsébet Schaár

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book III: No. 31, Hommage to Christian Wolff (Half‐asleep)

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book V: No. 19, Grassblades in memory of Klára Martyn

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book V: No. 11a, Prelude

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book V: No. 11b, …and Choral (for Benjamin Rajeczky’s 80th birthday)

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book VI: No. 26, András Hajdú is 60!

1:06

Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book VI: No. 2, D’ora dara b, for Dóra Antal’s Birthday (2nd version)

1:36

Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book VI: No. 25, Les Adieux (in the manner of Janáček)

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book VI: No. 30, Doina

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book VII: No. 16, Ligatura for Ligeti

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book VII: No. 27, Hommage to Beatrice Stein

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book IX: No. 2, 3 Pieces for Berndt HAGE: Bleak and sorrowful – Scherzo – In the style of a Folk Song

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book IX: No. 8, Hommage to Georg Kröll 70

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book IX: No. 9, Hommage to Jehuda Elkana 70

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Act 4: Tribute: In Memory of… – Játékok, Book IX: No. 20, To András Wilheim – “Wanderer, this is the tomorrow, you were awaiting yesterday”

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Act 5: Nature and Transformation – Játékok, Book IX: No. 1, … apple blossom…

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Act 5: Nature and Transformation – Játékok, Book V: No. 32, (… lovely greetings to Grete Spinrad)

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Act 5: Nature and Transformation – Játékok, Book V: No. 18, Flowers we are… (from the Sayings of Péter Bornemisza, III.3)

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Act 5: Nature and Transformation – Játékok, Book VII: No. 6, … and once again: Shadow-Play

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Act 5: Nature and Transformation – Játékok, Book IX: No. 7, … jubilate…

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Act 5: Nature and Transformation – Játékok, Book V: No. 20, Like the flowers of the field…

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Act 5: Nature and Transformation – Játékok, Book III: No. 30, Dirge (2)

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Act 5: Nature and Transformation – Játékok, Book V: No. 33, Capriccio – luminoso for Jeno Szervánsky’s 80th birthday

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Act 5: Nature and Transformation – Játékok, Book IX: No. 12, … fallen leaves…

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