Release Date: 27 August 2012
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028947647294
Description
The great viola player Kim Kashkashian has long been one of the most outstanding protagonists of modern composition and this bold and subtle account of solo music by the great Hungarian composers György Kurtág and György Ligeti is a landmark recording. Kurtág's Signs, Games and Messages (1989- in progress) in its 19 aphoristic sections is as demanding as Ligeti's Sonata for viola (1991-94), but Kashkashian surmounts the very different challenges of the works, and points towards the qualities that unite these composers. As ever, she gets to the heart of the music, and unravels its secrets.
In his liner note, Wolfgang Sandner comments: "For twenty years Kim Kashkashian has devoted herself to Kurtág's complex oeuvre for the viola and developed a remarkable rapport for the relation between compositional fabric and sonic nuance. In the thoughtful dramaturgical sequence of this recording, and in Kashkashian's scrupulous reading, these Kurtág pieces, and the six movements of Ligeti's Viola Sonata that follows them, seem like the work of a single visionary artist - conveyed in hidden signs and coded messages."
Amongst her many notable albums for ECM New Series, Kashkashian has recorded Kurtág's Movement for viola and orchestra and also his Nine Pieces for Solo Viola, the early Jelek for viola, op 5, and the chamber work Hommage à R.Sch. This is the ninth disc on the label devoted in whole or in part to Kurtág's music.
Personnel: Kim Kashkashian (viola)
Tracklisting
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Rainer Bruninghaus
Paul Bley
Mathias Eick; Kristjan Randalu; Ole Morten Vagan; Hans Hulbaekmo
Julia Hulsmann Quartet
Kim Kashkashian, Sarah Rothenberg, Houston Chamber Choir
Jan Garbarek, Kim Kashkashian, Manu Katche
Kim Kashkashian, RSO Saarbrucken & Dennis Russell Davies
Kim Kashkashian, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra & Peter Eotvos
Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin & Robyn Schulkowsky
Kim Kashkashian
Kim Kashkashian
