program:
[01] Homage to György Kurtág for guitar and chamber orchestra [2000-2001] 63:23
Jurgen Ruck, guitar
œnm . Austrian ensemble for new music
Johannes Kalitzke, conductor
[02] Kurtág duo for two guitars [2000] 14:24
Elena Casoli and Jurgen Ruck, guitar
total time: 77:59
Press:
05/14
[…] The “Kurtág-Duo” (2000) filters the solo passages from the “Hommage” and sets them in a contrast of virtuoso-aggressive and introverted-fragile guitar parts. The radical microtonality lends interesting colors to this dialogue between two guitars […]
Dirk Wieschollek
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02.2014
[…] After a personal encounter at the Siemens Music Prize award ceremony in 1998, Mahnkopf wrote the Homage to György Kurtág (2000/01), a “concert” for the guitarist Jürgen Ruck, which not least reflects Mahnkopf's affinity for Kurtágs Stephen's tombstone (for guitar and groups of instruments distributed throughout the room) gave expression. It became a kind of compositional mothership for a cycle of nine intertwined pieces, all related to Kurtág. […]
Dirk Wieschollek
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