Chamber Music with Voice
SKU: HL.50512013
For Sopran Solo and
Chamber Ensemble.
Composed by Gyorgy
Kurtag. Contemporary
Music. EMB. Score.
Composed 2013. Op. 41. 64
pages. Duration 15'.
Editio Musica Budapest
#Z14212. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(HL.50512013).
ISBN
9790080142127. A/4
inches. Russian. Gyorgy
Kurtag.
The first
performance of Gyorgy
Kurtag's song-cycle
written to poems by Anna
Akhmatova took place on
January 3rd, 2009, in the
Carnegie Hall, New York.
In this work it is
evidence of the
exceptionally intimate
relationship between the
text and the music, that
the composer originally
imagined the songs as a
single vocal solo. The
parts for the
instrumental ensemble,
with their characteristic
colours, only later
became paired with the
vocal solo. The Russian
language and the
identification with the
female figure make the
Akhmatova songs an
organic sequel or rather
a belated successor to
the song-cycles Messages
of the late R.V.
Troussova and Scenes from
a Novel. (Zoltan
Farkas).