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Kurtág's choral music is recognizably the product of the same imagination that produced his exquisite vocal miniatures, the cycles Scenes from a Novel and Messages of the Late R.V. Troussova -- lean, concise, texturally spare, and almost Webernian, while at the same time being deeply expressive. The two a cappella works recorded here, Omaggio a Luigi Nono and Eight Choruses to Poems by Dezsö Tandori, fit that description well. The aphoristic poetry of Tandori, Anna Akhmatova, and Rimma Dalos inspired the composer to create music of comparable economy, and only a few movements last more than two minutes. A chorus is capable of making a huge sound, not an elemental characteristic of the composer's aesthetic, and Kurtág uses the resource judiciously. The choral writing is original, but fully idiomatic, and at the same time ethereally delicate and grindingly dissonant, with great textural inventiveness and gestural variety. The Songs of Despair and Sorrow sound more conventionally choral and are more accessible on first hearing. Using visually descriptive (and longer) texts by nineteenth and twentieth century Russian poets, Kurtág shows great sensitivity in vivid text painting. He employs the accompanying instrumental ensemble with restraint, often using only accordion-like bajans to support the voices. Kurtág's setting of Alexander Blok's "Night, an empty street, a lamp, a drug-store," is especially evocative and poignant. The SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart and Ensemble Modern, under Marcus Creed, give stunningly secure performances of these phenomenally difficult scores. Their surfaces are prickly, but they reward close listening with an experience of profound musical depth and richness.
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Omaggio a Luigi Nono, Op. 16 (György Kurtág)
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
8 Choruses, Op. 23 (György Kurtág)
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Pesni uniniya i pechali (Songs of Despair and Sorrow), Op. 18 (György Kurtág)
Marcus Creed, Conductor - Ensemble Modern, Ensemble - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - Ensemble Modern, Ensemble - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - Ensemble Modern, Ensemble - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - Ensemble Modern, Ensemble - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - Ensemble Modern, Ensemble - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Marcus Creed, Conductor - Ensemble Modern, Ensemble - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Gyorgy Kurtag, Composer
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
Album review
Kurtág's choral music is recognizably the product of the same imagination that produced his exquisite vocal miniatures, the cycles Scenes from a Novel and Messages of the Late R.V. Troussova -- lean, concise, texturally spare, and almost Webernian, while at the same time being deeply expressive. The two a cappella works recorded here, Omaggio a Luigi Nono and Eight Choruses to Poems by Dezsö Tandori, fit that description well. The aphoristic poetry of Tandori, Anna Akhmatova, and Rimma Dalos inspired the composer to create music of comparable economy, and only a few movements last more than two minutes. A chorus is capable of making a huge sound, not an elemental characteristic of the composer's aesthetic, and Kurtág uses the resource judiciously. The choral writing is original, but fully idiomatic, and at the same time ethereally delicate and grindingly dissonant, with great textural inventiveness and gestural variety. The Songs of Despair and Sorrow sound more conventionally choral and are more accessible on first hearing. Using visually descriptive (and longer) texts by nineteenth and twentieth century Russian poets, Kurtág shows great sensitivity in vivid text painting. He employs the accompanying instrumental ensemble with restraint, often using only accordion-like bajans to support the voices. Kurtág's setting of Alexander Blok's "Night, an empty street, a lamp, a drug-store," is especially evocative and poignant. The SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart and Ensemble Modern, under Marcus Creed, give stunningly secure performances of these phenomenally difficult scores. Their surfaces are prickly, but they reward close listening with an experience of profound musical depth and richness.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 00:41:37
- Main artists: SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart Marcus Creed Ensemble Modern
- Composer: György Kurtág
- Label: SWR Classic
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2006 SWR Classic (P) 2006 SWR Classic
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