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György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages

from: Ecm Import

Release Date July 22, 2003
This ECM disc continues the label's dedication to the music of Gyorgy Kurtag, whose work is increasingly making use of the sort of portentious silences that ECM specializes in. The performers have all closely worked with Kurtag for years and in fact premiered the pieces: Kurt Widmer (baritone), Mircea Ardeleanu (percussion), Hiromi Kikuchi (violin), Ken Hakii (viola) and Stefan Metz (cello).

"...pas à pas -- nulle part..." poèmes de Samuel Beckett op. 36 (1993-1998) sets some of the English playwright's idiosyncratic poetry as well as the maxims of Sébastien Chamfort which he translated into English. While scored for the peculiar ensemble of baritone, percussion and string trio, the baritone clearly carries the bulk of the work. ... Read More: