György Kurtág: Complete Flute Music Markus Brönnimann and friends

• György Kurtág (b. 1926): Bagatelles op. 14/d for flute, double bass and piano:
• 1 Kurtág: Bagatelles op. 14/d for flute, double bass and piano: Furious Chorale 00:43
• 2 Kurtág: Bagatelles op. 14/d for flute, double bass and piano: Hommage à J. S. B. 01:34
• 3 Kurtág: Bagatelles op. 14/d for flute, double bass and piano: Like the flowers of the field 01:30
• 4 Kurtág: Bagatelles op. 14/d for flute, double bass and piano: Wild and Tame 01:08
• 5 Kurtág: Bagatelles op. 14/d for flute, double bass and piano: Flowers we are, mere flowers 01:18
• 6 Kurtág: Bagatelles op. 14/d for flute, double bass and piano: La fille aux cheveux de lin – enragée 01:29
• Scenes op. 39 for flute solo:
• 7 Kurtág: Scenes op. 39 for flute solo: Ballad 01:37
• 8 Kurtág: Scenes op. 39 for flute solo: Echoes – Back and Forth 01:40
• 9 Kurtág: Scenes op. 39 for flute solo: ... preparations, experiments for the creation of a perpetuum mobile… 03:30
• 10 Kurtág: Scenes op. 39 for flute solo: A Faltering Confession 01:07
• 11 Kurtág: Scenes op. 39 for flute solo: In the Language of the Birds 01:05
• 12 Kurtág: Scenes op. 39 for flute solo: Pondering 01:17
• 13 Kurtág: Scenes op. 39 for flute solo: Wild and Passionate 00:42
• 14 Kurtág: Scenes op. 39 for flute solo: Memories of Gyimes 01:08
• 15 Kurtág: Scenes op. 39 for flute solo: Epilogue [ ... rêveries d’un promeneur solitaire ....] 02:00
• Signs, Games and Messages:
• 16 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: ... c’erano due fiori ... (flute and bass flute) 02:26
• 17 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: ... après une lecture de Rimbaud ... (flute solo) 01:43
• 18 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Doloroso (flute solo) 01:43
• 19 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: ... ein Brief aus der Ferne an Ursula ... (flute solo) 01:47
• 20 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Myriam Marbé in memoriam (2 flutes and alto flute) 02:41
• Herdecker Eurythmie op. 14/a for flute and lyre:
• 21 Kurtág: Herdecker Eurythmie op. 14/a for flute and lyre: Eigensinn 00:48
• 22 Kurtág: Herdecker Eurythmie op. 14/a for flute and lyre: Hommage à J. S. B. 01:24
• 23 Kurtág: Herdecker Eurythmie op. 14/a for flute and lyre: Blumen die Menschen ... (1) 00:34
• 24 Kurtág: Herdecker Eurythmie op. 14/a for flute and lyre: Zank und Sanftmut 00:47
• 25 Kurtág: Herdecker Eurythmie op. 14/a for flute and lyre: Blumen die Menschen ... (2) 00:34
• Signs, Games and Messages:
• 26 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Jauchzet und frohlocket! Auf! Schwung! (flute solo) 00:47
• 27 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Épitaphe (2 flutes) 00:48
• 28 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Bref message à Pierre Boulez (flute solo) 01:27
• 29 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Hommage à J. S. B. (flute solo) 01:23
• 30 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Plaintive Pleading (flute and piano) 01:33
• 31 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Anna Holliger in memoriam (flute solo) 01:32
• 32 Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages: Joli oiseau – en pantomime (baritone and bass flute) 01:23
• Die kleine Klemme op. 15b for piccolo, trombone and guitar:
• 33 Kurtág: Die kleine Klemme op. 15b for piccolo, trombone and guitar: Fanfare in the Manner of Mussorgsky 01:05
• 34 Kurtág: Die kleine Klemme op. 15b for piccolo, trombone and guitar: Hymn in the Manner of Stravinsky 00:58
• 35 Kurtág: Die kleine Klemme op. 15b for piccolo, trombone and guitar: Scherzo 01:27
• 36 Kurtág: Die kleine Klemme op. 15b for piccolo, trombone and guitar: Nachtstück 02:54
• Total Runtime 51:32

Info for György Kurtág: Complete Flute Music

The desire to record all of the works for an instrument already during the lifetime of a composer points to his importance and charisma. Despite all the uncertainty. Perhaps he will write something else? This was also the case with TACET 129, after Erika Haase (1935 - 2013) set herself the life-long task of recording all the pieces for piano by another 'great' of contemporary Hungarian music, Gyorgy Ligeti.

Now Gyorgy Kurtag, a master of the miniature like Anton Webern. All his works for flute, initiated and congenially played by Markus Bronnimann and friends. The very first note should, no, must contain the whole world. Kurtag's pupils know this only too well, as they often didn't get past the first bar in their lessons. Because he succeeds in this concentration, this evaporation to the essentials, Kurtag only needs a few notes to create a complete little univers in which nothing is missing. The 36 tracks bear ample witness to this!

Markus Brönnimann, flute, piccolo, bass flute
Aniela Stoffels, flute
Christophe Nussbaumer, alto flute, bass flute
Ilka Emmert, double bass
Michael Kleiser, piano
Guillaume Lebowski, trombone
Hany Heshmat, guitar
Thomas Leins, lyre
Michel de Souza, baritone

Markus Brönnimann
has been principal flute in the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg since 1998 and was born in Switzerland, where he studied with Günter Rumpel at the Zurich University of Music. Further studies led him to Michel Debost in the USA and to Renate Greiss-Armin in Karlsruhe, where he developed a particular passion for chamber music. He is a member of the Kammerata Luxembourg and the Ensemble Pyramide, whose activities include its own concert series in Zurich. As a chamber musician, he is a regular guest at festivals in Europe and overseas, performing at the Rheingau Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival as well as in China and at Cape Classics in South Africa. Markus Brönnimann endeavours to continually expand the repertoire of his instrument, both by performing valuable works that have fallen into oblivion and by collaborating with contemporary composers. His interest in music is not limited to the flute. In recent years, he has arranged more than 25 works for the Ensemble Pyramide. When he takes up the pen himself, he writes texts about music and, in recent years, increasingly also compositions.

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