Starter Packs

Complete your collection with these curated titles, grouped at a special discount.

Shop Now
Alpha

Marton Illes: Bowed Spaces

$20.99

Details

Composer
Marton Illes
Artist
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Nicolas Altstaedt, SWR Experimentalstudio, Munchener Kammerorchester
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Apr 03, 2026
Catalog #
ALPHA1221
UPC
3701624512210

About

Born in Budapest in 1975 and based in Germany, composer Márton Illés studied with Detlev Müller-Siemens and Wolfgang Rihm. In 2020, he composed the violin concerto Vont-tér for Patricia Kopatchinskaja, a long-time partner who performs his music with total commitment. "She gives the impression that music can be tactile, truly three-dimensional, to the point that you could almost touch it, that each gesture has it's own colour, temperature, smell, taste," says Illés. Sírt-tér, "space filled with tears," is a cello concerto: "I make it moan, scream or even roar hysterically in order to draw out the vocal qualities capable of communicating human pain." In Nicolas Altstaedt, "I found the ideal performer, who grasps the dark drama of this subject with existential intuition and makes it resonate with primitive force." Rajzok I consists of tuning the strings of 24 instruments to different quarter-tone intervals. A very unusual and fascinating total scordatura. In Three Sketches, electronic music blends with the sound of the violin, multiplying the sensations and sound textures. Fascinated by the human psyche and the processes that take place in the human body, Illés develops music that lives, speaks, and breathes.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 Vont-tér 20:57
    Track
    1
    Title
    Vont-tér
    Duration
    20:57
    Composer
    Márton Illés
    Performer
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja
    Ensemble
    Münchener Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Clemens Schuldt
  2. 2 skEtch 1 05:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    skEtch 1
    Duration
    05:57
    Composer
    Márton Illés
    Performer
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja
    Ensemble
    SWR Experimentalstudio
  3. 3 Rajzok I 14:57
    Track
    3
    Title
    Rajzok I
    Duration
    14:57
    Composer
    Márton Illés
    Ensemble
    Münchener Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Clemens Schuldt
  4. 4 skEtch 2 06:23
    Track
    4
    Title
    skEtch 2
    Duration
    06:23
    Composer
    Márton Illés
    Performer
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja
    Ensemble
    SWR Experimentalstudio
  5. 5 Sírt-tér 21:09
    Track
    5
    Title
    Sírt-tér
    Duration
    21:09
    Composer
    Márton Illés
    Performer
    Nicolas Altstaedt
    Ensemble
    Münchener Kammerorchester
    Conductor
    Bas Wiegers
  6. 6 skEtch 3 07:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    skEtch 3
    Duration
    07:11
    Composer
    Márton Illés
    Performer
    Patricia Kopatchinskaja
    Ensemble
    SWR Experimentalstudio