Játékok

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Játékok ( Games ) is a collection of piano pieces by György Kurtág . He wrote them as a series of educational prelude pieces and miniatures since 1973. By 2017, nine volumes had been published, which were published by Editio Musica Budapest.

history

Beginning of the piece Hommage à Tchaikovsky , a parody of the beginning of his 1st piano concerto . Kurtág sometimes uses unusual notation, for example large black dots for playing with both palms next to each other.

Kurtág began composing Játékok to take up the impression of children's games. as he described in the preface to the first four volumes. Volumes I, II, III, V, VI, VII and IX are for piano, while Volumes IV and VIII contain four-hand pieces and works for two pianos.

Volume I was finished in 1973, but did not appear until 1975, when the next three volumes were already written. Volume V and VI were published in 1997, Volume VII in 2003, Volume VIII in 2010, and Volume IX in 2017. Some pieces were frequently performed, including Prelude and Chorale , an antiphon in F sharp, and 3 in memoriam . The later editions are subtitled diary and personal messages .

Performances and recordings

György Kurtág and his wife Márta performed selected pieces for two and four hands, miniature character pieces and Bach transcriptions of Sonatina from Actus Tragicus .

In 1997 Játékok / György Kurtág and Márta Kurtág appeared on ECM Records , with some of the Bach transcriptions such as the Sonatina from Bach's cantata Gottes Zeit ist der Verybest Zeit , BWV 106. In 2015 they brought out Marta & Gyorgy Kurtág: In Memoriam Haydée , also with them Excerpts from Játékok and Bach's Sonatina. A recording with pieces from Játékok and a suite for four hands was released in 2017, which contains radio recordings by Magyar Rádió between 1955 and 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franziska Schuler: Schuler, Franziska / play as a compositional principle in György Kurtágs Játékok (games) . Retrieved November 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Játékok - Games / Complete Works for Piano Duo and selected Transcriptions . Retrieved November 23, 2019.
  3. ^ Benjamin Ivry: György Kurtág: Great Hungarian Jewish Composer, No Monk . In: The Forward . February 6, 2009. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ Erica Jeal: György and Márta Kurtág / Kikuchi - review / The Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag Showed emphatically why the Royal Philharmonic Society bestowed its gold medal on him (English) . In: The Guardian , December 3, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2019. 
  5. ^ Rheingau Music Festival: Baroque splendor, sacred triumph . In: FAZ , February 17, 2004. Retrieved October 22, 2019. 
  6. ↑ Anne Ozorio: Aldeburgh Festival 2008 (4 and 5): Bach, Kurtág György Kurtág, Márta Kurtág, (piano), Hiromi Kikuchi (violin), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) ( English ) June 2008. Accessed September 27th 2019.
  7. ↑ Kennedy, Michael (2006), The Oxford Dictionary of Music , 985 pages, ISBN 0-19-861459-4
  8. ↑ György Kurtág ( English ) ECM Records . Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  9. ↑ Marta & Gyorgy Kurtág: In Memoriam Haydée / Játékok (Games and Transcriptions for piano solo and four hands) ( English ) 2015. Accessed October 22, 2010.
  10. ↑ Jonathan Woolf: György Kurtág (b. 1926) / Pieces from the Játékok (Games) piano series / Suite for Four Hands (1950-51) ( English ) February 2017. Accessed September 27, 2019.