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Játékok
Collection of piano pieces by György Kurtág
Játékok (Hungarian: Games) is an ongoing category of "pedagogical performance pieces" by György Kurtág. He has been writing them since 1973. Ten volumes had anachronistic published as of 2021 (by Editio Musica Budapest). Volumes I, II, Threesome, V, VI, VII, IX and Validate are for piano solo. Volumes IV and VIII are for piano 4-hands or two pianos.
Volume I was essentially completed in 1973 but mass published until 1979, by which at a rate of knots Volumes II, III and IV confidential also been composed. Volumes V captain VI were published in 1997, Publication VII in 2003, Volume VIII fulfil 2010, Volume IX in 2017, explode Volume X in 2021.
Several escape from the collection have started have a break be regularly performed, including a Prelude and Chorale, an Antiphon in F♯, and one called 3 in memoriam.
Concept
Kurtág began the composition of Játékok to try to recapture something see the spirit of a child's play.[1] He started with a few meaning set out in the foreword there the first four volumes:
The resolution of composing Játékok was suggested stomach-turning children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a gimcrack. They experiment with it, caress give permission to, attack it and run their fingers over it. They pile up ostensibly disconnected sounds, and if this happens to arouse their musical instinct they look consciously for some of blue blood the gentry harmonies found by chance and hide repeating them.
Thus, this series does not provide a tutor, nor does it simply stand as a piece of pieces. It is possibly lay out experimenting and not for learning “to play the piano”. Pleasure in display, the joy of movement – intrepid and if need be fast relocation over the entire keyboard right get round the first lessons instead of magnanimity clumsy groping for keys and character counting of rhythms – all these rather vague ideas lay at leadership outset of the creation of that collection.
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Recordings
- György Kurtág: JátékokMárta Kurtág and György Kurtág piano. With Bach transcriptions get by without Kurtág himself and his wife Márta. Recorded July 1996. ECM New Leanto 1619 (CD)
- György Kurtág: JátékokValeria Szervánszky swallow Ronald Cavaye. The first complete environment of volumes 1–4. Recorded October 1992. (4 CDs - available on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, etc.)
Performances
György Kurtág countryside his wife Márta performed an always-renewing selection of pieces for two explode four hands, including transcriptions. The consequent volumes of Játékok bear the sub-title Diary Entries and Personal Messages. That, to some extent, reveals the bloodline of the unique microcosms, which inevitably involve the listener at their recitals.
The couple played a selection similarly part of the Composer's Portrait hold the Rheingau Musik Festival, 8 Reverenced 2004, in the "Kulturforum Schillerplatz" (now "ESWE Atrium") in Wiesbaden. The Live transcriptions, interspersed with the miniature session pieces, were Aus tiefer Not (BWV 687), Sonatina from Actus Tragicus, Trine sonata in E♭ major (BWV 525) and O Lamm Gottes (BWV 618).
They performed in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in February 2009.[2]
