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Featuring:
Creator:
Conductor:
György Kurtág
Signs, Games and Messages for solo cello - János Pilinszky: Gérard de Nerval
György Kurtág
Games VIII/9 - János Pilinszky: Waltz (for two pianos)
J. S. Bach-György Kurtág
Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611
György Kurtág
Games VIII/7 - Beating - Quarrel (for four hands)
J. S. Bach-György Kurtág
Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 711
György Kurtág
Splinters, Op. 6c
György Kurtág
Games VIII/3 - Responsorium (Pilinszky: A Snow White Arm)
J. S. Bach-György Kurtág
O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, BWV deest
György Kurtág
Games VIII/6 - Sketch for Pilinszky's "Hölderlin" (Position practice)
J. S. Bach-György Kurtág
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614
György Kurtág
Four Songs to Poems by János Pilinszky, Op. 11
J. S. Bach-György Kurtág
Aus Tiefer Not schrei ich zu Dir, BWV 687 - In memoriam Joannis Pilinszky
"They share the single-minded succinctness of the poet and musician, the knowledge of how to experience and convey the thrilling silence and a cry that penetrates right to the marrow, as well as a confrontation with death, an ever-recurring experience," the great musicologist János Kárpáti, who recently passed away, wrote in connection with Pilinszky and Kurtág. This evening will see a performance by Natasa Stork and Sándor Zsótér of the words of the Hungarian poet János Pilinszky, including works from the composer György Kurtág that are tied to Pilinszky, as well as Kurtág's arrangements of the works of Bach, which have a fundamental significance for both Hungarian artists.
Though vocal works form a central role in Kurtág's ouevre, his instrumental pieces also yearn to express themselves with such a burning intensity that is as though they were the musical arrangements of unwritten texts. This is not the only relationship between the Kurtág works featured in this concert. They all, without exception, have a link to Pilinszky. Certain pieces only allude to Pilinszky, some - including the Bach transcriptions - were dedicated by Kurtág to Pilinszky, and a few have a more direct link to the poet. Such as the Splinters cycle for cimbalom. Though the musical piece began to take form before the poetry volume of the same name was published, the name for its final form was inspired by the poet, just like the four Pilinszky songs, rarely heard in their original form, with a unique encounter between words and music, poet and composer.
In the course of the evening, Natasa Stork and Zsótér Sándor will perform the poem cycle Végkifejlet by János Pilinszky, as well as extracts from the Szálkák cycle.
The programme for the evening was compiled by Péter Kárpáti and Gergely Fazekas.
Presented by: Müpa Budapest
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