281 CD / György Kurtág: Complete Flute Music
György Kurtág
Complete Flute Music
Markus Brönnimann and friends
EAN/barcode: 4009850028109
Description
The desire to record all of the works for an instrument already during the lifetime of a composer points to his importance and charisma. Despite the uncertainty: will he write something else? This was also the case with TACET 129, after Erika Haase (1935 - 2013) set herself the life-long task of recording all the pieces for piano by another ‘great’ of contemporary Hungarian music, György Ligeti. Now György Kurtág, a master of the miniature almost like Anton Webern. All his works for flute, initiated and congenially played by Markus Brönnimann and friends. The very first note should, no, must contain the whole world. Many of Kurtág's pupils know this only too well, as they often didn't get past the first bars in their lessons. Because he succeeds in this concentration, this evaporation to the essentials, Kurtág only needs a few notes to create a complete little univers in which nothing is missing. The 36 tracks bear ample witness to this!
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Born in Hungary in 1926, the free spirit György Kurtag cannot be assigned to any school or direction. The flutist Markus Brönnimann has collected all of his works for flute on a Tacet album.
This was certainly not an easy undertaking, as Kurtag’s associative musical language demands the highest technical precision and musical concentration from both the soloist and the accompanying musicians. On the other hand, the composer leaves a certain amount of freedom to the performers, as his music should always be open to new ideas and adaptations. His collections do not always form a coherent cycle; the pieces can be played in different sequences. On the other hand, the pieces on this album contain a labyrinth of connecting threads, either because they can be assigned to other instruments or because they have been reworked from the corpus of other works. All this becomes clear in the very detailed and excellently explanatory booklet text by Markus Brönnimann.
The fact that the music expresses a wealth of often contradictory musical messages, that what may seem technical also speaks a poetic language, is expressed in Brönnimann’s playing and that of his friends with whom he recorded the album. The result is a truly exciting confrontation, coupled with a performance of a very high standard.
Norbert Tischer