Az-1

Track Listings

1. Play Me Out

2. Trust in Me

3. With You

4. I Like It

5. Missin' U

6. Let My Love Inside

7. Full Swing

8. 2nd Chance

9. Tonight Our 4-Ever

10. Trust in Me [Jeep Mix]

11. Shout Outs

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Blumen die Menschen, nur Blumen...(...sich umschlingende Tone)
Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (BWV 687) - In memoriam Joannis Pilinszky
Praludium und Choral
Knoten
Antiphone in fis
Klagegesang 1
Hommage a Christian Wolff
Spiel mit Obertonen
Prepetuum mobile (objet trouve)
...und noch einmal: Blumen die Menschen...
Schlage-Zank
Studie zu 'Holderlin'
Sonatina aus 'Actus tragicus' (BWV 106): Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
Hommage a Strawinsky: Glocken
Zorniger Choral
Hoquetus
Mit den Handflachen
Glockenblume
Distel
Haschen Trotzig
Hommage a Borsody Laszlo: Harmonika
Hommage a Domenico Scarlatti
Alfred Schlee zum 80. Geburtstag: Aus de Ferne
Triosonate in Es-Dur I, 1 (BWV 525)
Klagegesang 1a
In memoriam Ligeti IIona: Klagegesang 2
Hampeln - Strampeln
Hommage a Kurtag Marta
O Lamm Gottes unschuldig (BWV Deest): J.S. Bach: O Lamm Gottes unschuldig (BWV Deest)
Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 3: Petruschkas Beschworung
Liebe im Herzen, bittere Schmerzen...: Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 4
Hommage a Soproni: In memoriam matris carissimae
Hommage a Halmagyi Mihaly
Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 2: Erinnerungsbrocken aus eine Kolindenmelodie

Customer Reviews:

jatekok transcend being just sketches.imbued with something special........2006-07-09

Kurtag has a very precise sense of what he hears but is often at a loss to find an effective means of notation (the Jatekok pieces with their flimsy notation are a good example)and then has fierce confrontions with players when they don't realise his intentions.
For all this shoddy behaviour, the results aren't without an appeal,somehow transcending (only just)being a mere sketch.Most moving are the Bach transcriptions which are beautifully delivered by the fearsome duo of kurtag with his wife.They emerge seamlessley from the Jatekok.

Uneven but often entertaining piano miniatures.......2004-01-07

This disc, featuring György and Márta Kurtág playing selections from György's collection of pieces for piano (both two- and four-hands), Játékok, was one of the discs that helped to boost Kurtág's once-low profile outside his native Hungary. The fifty minutes of music on this disc contain thirty-four pieces dating from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, four of which are four-handed transcriptions from Bach, the other thirty of which are original Kurtág creations (sometimes arranged for piano from works for other instrumental/vocal combinations).

Of these thirty, ten are four-handed works played by both Kurtágs, while husband and wife share piano duty on the twenty two-handed works. Many of the original works are very short, with eighteen clocking in at under a minute, and half of these under forty seconds. This inevitably means that some--though not all--of the very short works are distinctly slight, though this is compensated for by the inclusion of more substantial achievements such as Präludium und Choral, Hommage à Christian Wolff, Glocken and Aus der Ferne. Stylistically, these compositions range widely and eclectically: Webernian-sounding miniatures rub shoulders with constructivist atonality, bizarre flights of whimsy and even evocations of folk music and long-dead composers. Nonetheless, the works here that leave me with the strongest impression are the four Bach transcriptions, whose contrapuntal clarity, fidelity to the original and sheer joy remind me of Busoni.

This doesn't strike me as an essential Kurtág disc, at least in part because I tend to find the Játékok pieces work best in smaller doses than 50 minutes. In addition, some of then are probably more fun to play than to listen to. Nonetheless, fans of the composer will want to hear this selection--particularly in such authoritative performances--but newcomers would do better with the Keller Quartet's stunning string quartet collection (also on ECM).

Jewel-like modernist piano music.......2002-12-11

This is one of my favorite piano music recordings. Kurtag's piano pieces, each dedicated to a friend or hero, are like miniature musical portraits composed by a master artist. They are tiny, intricate, and gestural. His music tends toward the aphoristic, saying a lot with very few notes. Some pieces are less than a minute long. And yet they have the feel of the eternal about them. The sound is beautiful.

Extraordinary music superbly played.......2002-03-04

This is one of the finest CDs of contemporary piano music I have ever heard. The music is spare, fragmented, and frequently "empty" -- not empty of content, but empty in the way the Grand Canyon is empty. Not knowing very much about Zen I will still venture to say that Kurtag's music has Zen-like qualities of intense concentration, absence of ornamentation for it own sake, quietude, rigorousness, micro- and macro-scopic examination of its subject, seriousness offset with moments of whimsy, and even, though how I know this I don't know, morality. Not prudery, but real morality. This is music that grapples, as much as music ever can, with the Big Problems. Death, love, loyalty and rememberance are frequent themes. There is a deeply religious, almost monastic, quality to much of the music. It is therefore perfectly fitting that the recording is held up by four columns -- four transcriptions of Bach chorales, at least two of which are among the finest transcriptions of these much transcribed works as I have ever heard (easily in a class with Busoni, Kempff and Hess). For Bach lovers alone this is a great recording to have. Ditto for lovers of contemporary music. For Bach lovers who also love contemporary music, this is an essential recording -- not to be missed. Outstanding in every respect.

Tiszta forrás (Pure Springs): Hungarian Folk Tunes and Their Arrangements in Works by Bartók and Kodály

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Tiszta forrás (Pure Springs): Hungarian Folk Tunes and Their Arrangements in Works by Bartók and Kodály

Manufacturer: Hungaroton
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Hungarian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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Kodaly: Hungarian Folk Music; Bartok: Hungarian Folksongs Sz64
Csardas Hungarian Gypsy Music

ASIN: B00007138S
Release Date: 2002-10-29

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Cello Portrait

Manufacturer: Arte Nova Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0009ML2LA
Release Date: 2005-06-14

Tracks:

I. Prelude
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV. Sarabande
V. Gavotte I & II
VI. Gigue
Janos Pilinszky: Gerard De Nerval
Jelek I
Jelek II
Az Hit
Arnyak
Solo
Alter Ego
I. Improvisation
II. Ballade
III. Air
IV. Serenade
V. Sonate

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Impressive recording of cello works by Hungarian composers

Queyras Performs Kodaly, Veress, Kurtag

Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Classical | Imports | Stores | Music
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Alexandre Tharaud plays Rameau
Dvorák: Cello Concerto
Concertos italiens
Chopin Valses (Waltzes)

ASIN: B00005RDG3
Release Date: 2002-03-12

Customer Reviews:

Impressive recording of cello works by Hungarian composers.......2002-03-13

This new Harmonia Mundi release by Jean-Guihen Queyras, a name previously unknown to me, is quite impressive. In it, the young cellist performs works by Kodaly, Kurtag and Veress with Alexandre Tharaud as his partner in those pieces written for cello and piano. The centrepiece of this album is no doubt Kodaly's Sonata for Solo Cello, Op.8. Not having the benefit of experiencing Janos Starker in this awesome work (which would probably be the top recommendation for many), I found Queyras' playing to be quite remarkable. Not only does he possess a formidable technique, his tone is consistently beautiful and his dynamic control superb. However, his interpretation may prove to be controversial as he makes this gruelling piece not only sound easy but also rather playful and witty. Although I do have some doubts about such an interpretation (I tend to prefer a more anguished and emotionally tortuous rendition), purely from a musical perspective, there are actually much to commend in this performance. And perhaps his in indeed a viable interpretation - I found myself warming to it more and more after each successive hearing, which perhaps attests to the persuasive power of Queyras' slightly idiosyncratic reading.

The other pieces in this album (and there're quite a few interesting ones) also receive very fine treatment. Queyras is no less commanding in the Veress's Sonata for Solo Cello and he is able to invest those short pieces of Kurtag with character, sometimes within the spaces of just a few bars. Alexandre Tharaud is an excellent partner to Queyras in Kodaly's Sonatina, which may be the abandoned alternative movement for the 1909 Sonata for Cello and Piano (not featured in this CD), and the two talented musicians conjure up a meltingly tender and yearning Adagio for Cello and Piano as the concluding track for this fine project of cello works by three great Hungarian composers. Given that the recording is warm and atmospheric, this is a very enjoyable CD. I do look forward eagerly to future new releases by Queyras, and also Tharaud.

Bretan: Sacred Songs
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Bretan: Sacred Songs

Manufacturer: Nimbus Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
General | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000K089
Release Date: 1999-08-17

Tracks:

Requiem: I. Introitus
Requiem: II. Graduale
Requiem: III. Dies Irae
Requiem: IV. Offertorium
Requiem: V. Sanctus
Requiem: VI. Pie Jesu
Requiem: VII. Agnus Dei
Ave Maria
The Lord's Prayer
Small Christmas Song
Close By The Graveyard
God's Bankrupting Loan
Christ-Cross In The Forest
God's Arrival
Prayer After War
Death's Kinsman I
Under Mount Zion
Amen
Futurum Imperfectum
Mors Imperator
Dust And Flower
You Hours Slipping Into Night
Wanderings' End
The Garden Of Csucsa
Epitaphs

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Heavenly singing from a much missed soprano
Exquisite recital of classical songs based on folk music

Lucia Popp (Orfeo d'Or)

Manufacturer: Orfeo D'or
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Czech | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Russian Folksongs: Greenwoods
Russian Folksongs: White Snowflakes
Russian Folksongs: The Monk
Hungarian Folk Music: Lovely Is The forest
Hungarian Folk Music: Wheelcart, Barrow
Hungarian Folk Music: A Little Sad Song
In Folk Tone: Good Night
In Folk Tone: Down in Temesvar's
In Folk Tone: Far, Ah How Far Is Flown
In Folk Tone: Mine Is A Hot And Fiery Steed
Starke Einbildungskraft
Ich Ging Mit Lust
Ablosung Im Sommer
Nicht Wiedersehen
Um Schlimme Kinder Artig Zu Machen
Es Steht Ein Lind
Sehnsucht
Wie Komm Ich Denn Zur Tur Herein?
Die Trauernde
In Still Nacht
Oiseaux, Si Tous Les Ans KV 284d
Siren' (Flieder/The Lilacs) Op. 21/5
O Mio Babbino Caro Lied Der Lauretta Aus 'Gianni Schicci'
Lied An Den Mond Aus 'Rusalka'
Vilfa-Lied Aus 'Die Lustige Witwe'

Customer Reviews:

Heavenly singing from a much missed soprano.......2000-07-27

God, I miss Lucia Popp! She was a soprano with a unique gift for communicating with her audience. In this Salzburg recital, one can readily appreciate how she could infuse life into every song she sang. For this unforgetable evening she chose an inspired selection of folksongs by great composers, each and every one a gem. The 3 opera arias are exquisite.

Exquisite recital of classical songs based on folk music.......2000-06-15

I have treasured this CD for years. It presents Lucia Popp's recital at the 1981 Salzberg Festival, accompanied by Geoffrey Parsons. The program balances exoticism with accessibility: we hear Russian, Hungarian, Czech and German art songs by late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century classical composers in their original languages, but because they are settings of folk songs or poetry, I found them easy to relate to even in the days when I was much more comfortable with Schubert or Mozart than with Mahler or Prokofiev. The last five pieces on the CD are encores, and Popp's performance of Rusalka's "Song to the Moon" in her native Czech is an especially welcome bonus in this set. Popp is in exquisite form in all of this music: warm, controlled, expressive throughout. The rising phrase at the opening of Mahler's "Ich ging mit Lust" where she moves from the resonant chest voice of the first note to the confident, sustained piano high note at the end is just an example of this. But even without all the other fine performances, I personally think the CD is worth owning just for the final song on the regular program: Brahms's "In stiller Nacht". The CD notes (which regrettably do not include texts and translations of the songs--I would take off a star for that, except that I think the performance rates 5 stars on its own) point out the "personal courage and inner control" required to end a recital program with a simple lyrical piece like this. Nevertheless, she performs it with such style and feeling as to make it unforgettable and to richly deserve the tumultuous applause that follows.

[3 DISC SET] GRAMMY RAP NOMINEES 1999 / DAT WHOOPTY WOOP / BOSS BALLIN 2

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[3 DISC SET] GRAMMY RAP NOMINEES 1999 / DAT WHOOPTY WOOP / BOSS BALLIN 2
Soopafly 4. Can I Git Bucc - Crooked I, Daz Dillinger, Daz Dillinger, Soopafly 5. Way 2 Often - Kurupt, Soopafly 6. Everyday - Bad Azz, Big 1. Yall Ni**az Betta Reconize 2. This Type of Flow 3. Hell Yeah - Big Tray Deee , Soopafly 7. There Will Never Be Another - Daz Dillinger, Daz Dillinger, Gonzo, Richie Rich, Richie Rich, Soopafly 8. Bacc 2 L.A. - Daz, Soopafly, Xzibit 9. Like It or Not 10. Dat Whoopty Woop - Snoop Dogg, Tray Deee , Soopafly 11. Pimp City - Daz, Soopafly 12. Phone Conversation 13. Playing Games 14. Why You Wanna Act This Way 15. Freak Freak 16. Baby Boy ///// 1. Dangerous - Busta Rhymes 2. The Lost Ones - Lauryn Snoop Dogg , Hill 3. Gone Till November - Wyclef Jean 4. Gettin Jiggy With It - Will Smith n 5. Intergalactic - Beastie Boys 6. Money Ain't A Thang - Jermaine Dupri en 7. Deja Ve (Uptown Baby) - Lord Tario & Peter Gunz 8. Rosa Parks - , Outkast 9. Ghetto Supastar - Pras Michel 10. You Came Up - Big Punisher 11. Sweetheart - Jermaine Dupri & Mariah Carey 12. Lookin' At Me - Mase 3. Find Away - A Tribe Called Quest ///// 1. Yall Ni**az Betta Reconize 2 , Soopafly 4. Can I Git Bucc - Crooked I, Daz Dillinger, Daz Dillinger, Soopafly 5. Way 2 Often - Kurupt, Soopafly 6. Everyday - Bad Azz, Big Tray Deee, , Soopafly 7. There This Type of Flow 3. Hell Yeah - Big Tray Deee , Daz Dillinger, Gonzo, Richie Rich, Richie Rich, Soopafly 8. Bacc 2 L.A. - Daz, Soopafly, Xzibit 9. Like It or Not 10. Dat Whoopty Woop - Snoop Dogg, Snoop Dogg, Soopafly 11. Pimp City Will Never Be Another - Daz Dillinger , and Soopafly 12. Phone Conversation 13. Playing Games 14. Why You Wanna Act This Way 15. Freak Freak 16. Baby Boy - Daz
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[3 DISC SET] GRAMMY RAP NOMINEES 1999 / DAT WHOOPTY WOOP / BOSS BALLIN 2 ASIN: B000PSVA60 Artist: 1. Yall Ni**az Betta Reconize 2. This Type of Flow 3. Hell Yeah - Big Tray Deee, Soopafly 4. Can I Git Bucc - Crooked I, Daz Dillinger, Daz Dillinger, Soopafly 5. Way 2 Often - Kurupt, Soopafly 6. Everyday - Bad Azz, Big, Tray Deee, , Soopafly 7. There Will Never Be Another - Daz Dillinger, Daz Dillinger, Gonzo, Richie Rich, Richie Rich, Soopafly 8. Bacc 2 L.A. - Daz, Soopafly, Xzibit 9. Like It or Not 10. Dat Whoopty Woop - Snoop Dogg,, Snoop Dogg, Soopafly 11. Pimp City - Daz, Soopafly 12. Phone Conversation 13. Playing Games 14. Why You Wanna Act This Way 15. Freak Freak 16. Baby Boy ///// 1. Dangerous - Busta Rhymes 2. The Lost Ones - Lauryn, Hill 3. Gone Till November - Wyclef Jean 4. Gettin Jiggy With It - Will Smith n 5. Intergalactic - Beastie Boys 6. Money Ain't A Thang - Jermaine Dupri en 7. Deja Ve (Uptown Baby) - Lord Tario & Peter Gunz 8. Rosa Parks -, Outkast 9. Ghetto Supastar - Pras Michel 10. You Came Up - Big Punisher 11. Sweetheart - Jermaine Dupri & Mariah Carey 12. Lookin' At Me - Mase 3. Find Away - A Tribe Called Quest ///// 1. Yall Ni**az Betta Reconize 2, This Type of Flow 3. Hell Yeah - Big Tray Deee, Soopafly 4. Can I Git Bucc - Crooked I, Daz Dillinger, Daz Dillinger, Soopafly 5. Way 2 Often - Kurupt, Soopafly 6. Everyday - Bad Azz, Big Tray Deee, , Soopafly 7. There, Will Never Be Another - Daz Dillinger, Daz Dillinger, Gonzo, Richie Rich, Richie Rich, Soopafly 8. Bacc 2 L.A. - Daz, Soopafly, Xzibit 9. Like It or Not 10. Dat Whoopty Woop - Snoop Dogg, Snoop Dogg, Soopafly 11. Pimp City, - Daz, Soopafly 12. Phone Conversation 13. Playing Games 14. Why You Wanna Act This Way 15. Freak Freak 16. Baby Boy Format: Audio CD