VA - Bartók, Eötvös, Kurtág (2000)
VA - Bartók, Eötvös, Kurtág (2000)
Kim Kashkashian, viola
Avant-Garde | EAC (ape + cue) | CD 50:04 | booklet | 210MB | RS
Kim Kashkashian, viola
Avant-Garde | EAC (ape + cue) | CD 50:04 | booklet | 210MB | RS
"The violin", Edgard Varèse declared half a century ago, "does not express our epoch." But whatever the truth of that remark, then or now, its sister (or brother?) the viola has certainly been finding the occasion in the last several decades to express - if not the epoch - itself.
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The condition of Bartók's Viola Concerto - partial, imminent, not yet arrived - might have encouraged later Hungarian composers to feel that here was a genre in which something was waiting to be said. György Kurtág chose this as the form in which to present his graduation exercise at the end of his studies at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, a decade after Bartók's death. (Maybe not in this youthful work, but certainly in his later output, Bartók's absence is a prime motif and anxiety.) More than forty years later yet, Peter Eötvös returned to the image of the viola concerto - and perhaps the missing viola concerto - in his Replica.Paul Griffiths - from the attached booklet
Bartók/Eötvös/Kurtág - (5 tracks) 50:04
B. Bartók - Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1945-95) (3 tracks, 23:34)
Sz 120 begun in 1945, but left unfinished;
completed and orchestrated by Tibor Serly in 1949;
revised and edited by Peter Bartók and Paul Neubauer in 1995
01 I Moderato 14:37
02 II Adagio religioso - Alegretto 04:32
03 III Allegro Vivace 04:25
P. Eötvös - Replica for Viola and Orchestra (1997)
04 Replica 14:37
G. Kurtág - Movement for Viola and Orchestra (1954)
05 Movement for Viola and Orchestra 11:53
ECM New Series 1711 (2000)
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