★Hungaroton
Thirty Pieces For Five Orchestras / Music For Piano (LP)
1987 LP on Hungaroton matching a 1981 compositions for five orchestras performed by Savaria Symphony Orchestra led by Peter Eötvös with a set of indeterminate solo piano pices from the 1950's performed by several Hungarian composers including László …
Live Electronic (LP)
Fantastic EMS synthesizer / electronic music album by the Hungarian composer, released by Hungaroton in 1979.
Matuziáda Nos. 1-5 (LP)
Truly outstanding album of surprising electronic-sounding music for flute played with extended techniques by the Hungarian composer in collaboration with flutist István Matuz, released on Hungaroton in 1979.
Cricket Music / Sequences Of The Wind (LP)
Great 1970's electronic/instrumental music by the Hungarian composer, conductor and member of the Stockhausen Ensemble from the 1950's to the 70's, in collaboration with other composers László Sáry, László Vidovszky, Zoltán Jeney and Zoltán Kocsis. W…
180 (LP)
Great 1983 LP by Szemző's ensemble with highly-acclaimed (especially by Steve Reich) performances of two American classic minimalist compositions as well as two by Hungarian minimalists, released by Hungaroton.
Group 180 II (LP)
Excellent second LP by Szemző's ensemble with highly-acclaimed (especially by Steve Reich) performances of one American classic minimalist composition as well as two by Hungarian minimalists, released by Hungaroton in 1986.
Flowers Of Heaven / Prelude For Four Keyboard Instruments (LP)
Two multiple piano pieces composed in the 1970's by the Czech experimental/minimalist composer and released on Hungaroton in 1982.
Trasfigurazioni / Musica Per Orchestra (LP)
Two dense and complex orchestral pieces composed in 1972 by the Hugarian composer, released by Hingaroton in 1974.
Repliche / Variazioni / Lonely Song / Dialogo / Meditations (LP)
Works for solo instruments, ensembles and orchestra with vocals composed in the 1960's and early 70's by the two Hungarian composers, released on Hungaroton's Contemporary Hungarian Music series in 1972.
Wind Quintet No. 2 / Wind Quintet Op.6 / Wind Quintet No. 2 / Wind Quintet (LP)
Works for wind quintet composed in the 1960's and early 70's by the four Hungarian composers, released on Hungaroton's Contemporary Hungarian Music series in 1972.
Contemporary Hungarian Chamber Music (LP)
Four string quartets (one plus cimbalom) by as many Hungarian contemporary music composers released on Hungaroton in 1975.
Young Hungarian Composers (LP)
Chamber music compositions from the late 1970's and early 80's by six Hungarian composers, released by Hungaroton in 1982. With insert.
Electronic Music By Young Hungarian Composers (LP)
Five electro-acoustic compositions realized at the Electronic Music Studio of the Hungarian Radio between 1975 and 1981 by five Hungarian composers and released by Hungaroton in 1983.
Computer Music (LP)
Five classic computer music works realized at the Elektronisches Studio der Technischen Universität Berlin in 1983/84 by two Hungarian and one Argentinian composers, released by Hungaroton in 1985. With insert.
YCG Young Composers' Group Anthology 1 (LP)
Two brilliant string quartets composed in the mid-1960's by the four Czech composers, released on Supraphon's Musica Nova Bohemica contemporaru music series in 1972.
Kafka-Fragments
A wonderful CD, recorded under Kurtag's supervision: the hour-long Kafka Fragments, completed in 1986, is his biggest work to date: it's a characteristic cycle of 40 tiny movements, scored for soprano voice and violin, that adds up to something far g…
Works for Soprano
Kurtág's attachment to speech is also to be sensed in the works from this first period of maturity, something which emerged more concretely in this CD maily cenetered around the Russian language, which he learned especially in order to read Dostoevsk…
Works
An amazing introduction to Kurtag's complex work, this cd Gyorgy Kurtag is a modern master of the musical miniature, this 66-minute disc, containing six works, is split into nearly forty tracks, absolutely essential!
II.
Group 180 II is from 1985 and exhibits the same good taste in modern compositional works. There are two pieces by Steven Reich, “Piano Phase” and “Octet”. Compositions by András Soós and Bela Farago make up the rest of the album. It should be note th…