Játékok - Games - Spiele 10 (X)

The piano series entitled Games, written from 1973 onwards, was conceived as a piano method. As the years went by, the series lost its didactic character, at it came to be seen as a document from Kurtág's workshop, offering a key to his grander symphonic, chamber and vocal works as well. Tenth volume is divided into two parts: In the first half, earlier, hitherto unpublished pieces line up from Suite, written in 1943, to the 1980s, providing insight into the development of Kurtág's musical language. The second half includes pieces composed between 2002 and 2011. The movements, often aphorismic in their briefness, hide associations with various aspects of European music history. Many of them are hommage or in memoriam pieces, or subjective personal messages to friends, colleagues, and beloved family members - and thereby to all music-loving people. This publication is printed on high quality, durable paper made from renewable raw materials in an environmentally friendly way. Suite Darling Valse de guerre des Kabânaas With love to Barnabás Dukay Sound-filtering [2] Flower fly slowly and sing for long, My dying swan, my fair memory! ... ... tousling and rolling ... ... memories, little tin soldiers ... 3rd version Magdi-memory ... -- alio modo In the memory of Gabi Máriássy *** (to Márta) To Janka Szendrei, for her birthday ... per Luciana ... Henri Pousseur in memoriam ... Darling -- two - three ... ... an Dieter Schnebel 80 'Message-esquisse' 'Message-esquisse' -- alio modo In memoriam László Ferenc Babysitters dancing on the carpet ... and yet another letter to Péter Eötvös The memory of a pure soul -- Klári Schiff in memoriam Hommage a Scarlatti II -- alio modo Valse sentimentale -- Hommage a Ravel ... a little song for the 4th of July and on Vera's name ... Petrovics Emil in memoriam ... un pezzo silenzioso ... Dialogue -- Bálint Varga 70 A window on the corridor ... Impromptu -- all'ongherese ... just so ... A Sketch Leaf [rough -- raw]