Zoli Kocsis's manuscript book

Name: Zoli Kocsis's manuscript book Facsimile edition with CD
Brand: Editio Musica Budapest
Price: 74.30 EUR
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Facsimile edition with CD

74,30 €

Editora:Editio Musica Budapest

Categoria:Piano

Disponibilidade:Por Encomenda

Descrição

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who had been his student in earlier years and who, even today, is one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course of later decades: however, since then he has used this collection - expanded over 32 years since by Kurtág - whenever he plays pieces from Games in concert. Since the time of this 1974 concert, as he writes: 'I didn't know that the spiral notebook I received at the premiere wouldlater become, as it were, my permanent companion. That I would take it with me from Japan to Canada, from Australia to Iceland, travelling to the world's most prominent concert halls, surviving fire damage, flood, transport catastrophes, theft attempts, forced landings and so on, and that - well beyond the intention of