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Kurtág: Játékok Selection 2 / Gábor Csalog, Márta and György Kurtág, András Kemenes / Budapest Music Center Records Audio CD 2008 / BMC CD 139

UPC 5998309301391

Játékok (Hungarian: Games) is an ongoing collection of "pedagogical performance pieces" by György Kurtág. He has been writing them since 1973. Ten volumes had been published as of 2021 (by Editio Musica Budapest). Volumes I, II, III, V, VI, VII, IX and X are for piano solo. Volumes IV and VIII are for piano 4-hands or two pianos.

Label:	Budapest Music Center Records – BMC CD 139
Format:	CD, Album
Country:	Hungary
Released:	2008
Genre:	Classical
Style:	Contemporary

Tracklist:

	Part One
1	III/14 Tumble-Bunny	0:31
2	VII/26 In Memoriam Attila Bozay (1999)	1:28
3	II/39 Knots (2)	0:25
4	I/12B2 Gallop	0:22
5	I/11A1 (The Young Boxer's Lighter Moments)	0:23
6a	I/5B1 C's Night Song
6b	I/5B1 (... And Here Is One Of F-Sharps)	0:54
7	VII/14 A Flower To Márta (1997)	1:15
8	VI/3 Versetto: Temptavit Deus Abraham ... (Apocryphal Organum) (1990)	1:00
9	III/12 Thistle	0:32
10	III/22 Stubborn Knots	0:32
11	II/1 Hommage À Endre Bálint	0:32
12	II/41 Antiphony In F-Sharp	0:53
13	III/13 Elegy For The Left Hand	3:10
14	III/3 The Mind Will Have Its Freedom ...	0:49
15	V/33 Capriccioso-Luminoso - For Jenő Szervánszky's 80th Birthday (1986)	0:26
16	IV/4 Bells (Hommage À Stravinsky)	1:35
17	V/18 Flowers We Are ... (From The Sayings Of Péter Bornemisza, III.3)	0:56
18	V/19 Grassblades In Memory Of Klára Martyn (1982)	0:53
19	VI/25 Les Adieux (In Janáčeks Manier) (1992)	2:18
20	V/11 Prelude ... (1979)	0:46
21	V/15 ... And Chorale (For Benjamin Rajeczky's 80th Birthday) (1981)	1:05
22	See 15.	0:26
23	III/26 Hommage À Ferenc Farkas (3) (Evocation Of Petrushka)	1:02
24	(IX) A Little Song For Yehuda (2004)	2:25
	Part Two
25	VII/22 ... Eine Blume Für Ulrike Schuster ... (1998)	1:38
26	II/27 Fancifully	0:35
27	I/10B3 Fifths (2)	0:38
28	I/13B2 Jerking	0:22
29	I/13B1 Boisterous Csárdás	0:26
30	See 26.	0:35
31	See 5.	0:23
32	VII/18 Waltz (2) (1998)	0:52
33	(VIII) In Memoriam György Sebők (1999-2000)	2:41
34	See 7.	1:15
35	I/3A1 Flowers We Are, Frail Flowers ... (1a)	0:35
36	I/3B2 ... Flowers Also The Stars ...	0:29
37	III/16 Shadow-Play (3)	1:06
38	III/21 Signs In Black	0:57
39	See 28.	0:22
40	I/21 Hommage À Tchaikovsky	1:18
41	I/12B1 Three-Finger Play	0:16
42	See 4.	0:22
43	I/13A2 (Five Little Piano Pieces) No. 5: Presto	0:15
44	VI/13 Fundamentals (1) - Für Marc André Fitze (1991)	0:48
45	VI/31 A Quiet Farewell To Endre Székely Version 2 (1991)	0:45
46	VI/37 Ernő Lendvay In Memoriam (1993)	0:54
47	VI/48 ... Humble Regard Sur Olivier Messiaen ... Version 'B' (1993)	1:44
48	I/1A1 Perpetuum Mobile (Objet Trouvé)	1:46
49	VII/25 'γμέναΙος (Hymenæus) - Für Susanne Und Mark Sattler (1997)	0:30
50	VII/28 Hommage À Beatrice Stein (2000)	1:49
51	VII/16 Ligatura To Ligeti (1997)	2:57
52	(IX) Consolation Sereine (2004) - Für Renee Und Die Ganze Familie Jonker	1:53

Composed By – György Kurtág
Cover – GABMER
Engineer – Károly Horváth
Executive-Producer – Tamás Bognár
Photography By – István Huszti
Piano – András Kemenes (tracks: 48), Gábor Csalog (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 15, 17 to 23, 25 to 32, 35 to 43, 45 to 47, 49 to 51)
Piano [Pianino Con Pedale Di Supersordino] – György Kurtág (tracks: 7, 16, 33, 34, 52), Márta Kurtág (tracks: 24, 33)
Piano, Voice – Alíz Asztalos (tracks: 44)
Producer – László Gőz
Recorded By, Mixed By – András Wilheim (tracks: 3, 12, 19, 26, 30, 45), Péter Aczél (tracks: 1 to 2, 4 to 11, 13 to 18, 20 to 25, 27 to 29, 31 to 44, 46 to 52)