György Kurtág • Song Cycles CD

György Kurtág • Song Cycles CD

Messages of the late Miss R.V. Troussova, Op. 17 [Conductor: Peter Eötvös & Ensemble Modern - Soprano: Rosemary Hardy] (26:08)
I. Loneliness
1 In A Space
2 The Day Has Fallen
II. A Little Erotic
3 Heat
4 Two Interlaced Bodies
5 Why Should I Not Squeal Like A Pig
6 Chastushka
III. Bitter Experience - Delight And Grief
7 You Took My Heart
8 Great Misery
9 Pebbles
10 A Slender Needle
11 I Know My Loved One
12 Autumn Flowers Fading
13 In You I Seek My Salvation
14 Your Disappearances
15 Without You
16 Love Me
17 Payment
18 A Plaything
19 Why Did You Utter
20 In The Cloudburst
21 For Everything (Epilogue)
Quasi una Fantasia ..., Op. 27 [Conductor: Peter Eötvös & Ensemble Modern - Piano: Hermann Kretzschmar] (8:41)
22 I. Introduzione. Largo
23 II. Presto Minaccioso E Lamentoso. Molto Agitato, Sempre Pppp
24 III. Recitativo. Grave, Disperato
25 IV. Aria - Adagio Molto. Lontano, Calmo, Appena Sentito
Scenes from a Novel, Op. 19 [Cimbalom: Márta Fábián - Double Bass: Thomas Fichter - Soprano: Christine Whittlesey - Violin: Mathias Tacke] (20:21)
26 Come
27 From Meeting To Parting
28 Supplication
29 Allow Me
30 Counting-Out Rhyme
31 Dream
32 Rondo
33 Nakedness
34 Hurdy-Gurdy Waltz
35 Tale
36 Again
37 Sundays Without End
38 Visit
39 True Story
40 Epilogue

Sony Classical
32-page booklet with German and English notes, and the Russian lyrics with English translations
Total time 55:26