Avie Records
The Edge of Silence / Narucki
$9.99
Details
- Composer
- KURTAG, GYORGY
- Artist
- Narucki, Berman, Macomber, Tolle, Schulmeister
- Format
- CD
- Discs
- 1
- Label
- Avie Records
- Released
- Aug 02, 2019
- Catalog #
- AV2408
- UPC
- 822252240825
About
A New York Times 25 Best Classical Track Selection for 2019
Susan Narucki has worked closely with Kurtág on the interpretation of these songs, and her readings may be regarded as definitive.
American soprano and Latin Grammy-nominee Susan Narucki, one of today’s most committed advocates of the music of our time, has a deep and lasting working relationship with Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag which dates back to 1986. Susan’s luminous tone and distinctive artistry and Kurtag’s idiosyncratic fusion of poetry and music come together in this quintessential recorded collection of some of the composer’s most iconoclastic vocal works. In Susan’s words, “I have spent much of my life immersed in this repertoire, and it has become essential to the way I understand music; it is the heart of my practice as a musician.” Equally appreciative, Kurtag acknowledges Susan, “who sang so warmly, purely, so ‘integer’ these songs- with thanks and love.”
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REVIEWS:
Susan Narucki has worked closely with Kurtág, in Hungary, on the interpretation of these songs, and her readings may be regarded as definitive. She puts across how Kurtág's songs, more than embodying a relationship between text and music, constitute a heroic attempt to weld the two, through the use of extremely detailed instructions in the score, into a single unit. Small though they are, they may be regarded as virtuoso works. Recommended, although not to everyone's taste.
– All Music Guide (James Mannheim)
These seven songs, a highlight in this album of Kurtag’s vocal works, pass in just over nine minutes: dark little pools of fervor, articulated by Ms. Narucki with precision and tenderness and accompanied by just the percussive cimbalom, played here with richly pianistic resonance by Nicholas Tolle.
– New York Times (Zachary Woolfe)
Susan Narucki has worked closely with Kurtág on the interpretation of these songs, and her readings may be regarded as definitive.
American soprano and Latin Grammy-nominee Susan Narucki, one of today’s most committed advocates of the music of our time, has a deep and lasting working relationship with Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag which dates back to 1986. Susan’s luminous tone and distinctive artistry and Kurtag’s idiosyncratic fusion of poetry and music come together in this quintessential recorded collection of some of the composer’s most iconoclastic vocal works. In Susan’s words, “I have spent much of my life immersed in this repertoire, and it has become essential to the way I understand music; it is the heart of my practice as a musician.” Equally appreciative, Kurtag acknowledges Susan, “who sang so warmly, purely, so ‘integer’ these songs- with thanks and love.”
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REVIEWS:
Susan Narucki has worked closely with Kurtág, in Hungary, on the interpretation of these songs, and her readings may be regarded as definitive. She puts across how Kurtág's songs, more than embodying a relationship between text and music, constitute a heroic attempt to weld the two, through the use of extremely detailed instructions in the score, into a single unit. Small though they are, they may be regarded as virtuoso works. Recommended, although not to everyone's taste.
– All Music Guide (James Mannheim)
These seven songs, a highlight in this album of Kurtag’s vocal works, pass in just over nine minutes: dark little pools of fervor, articulated by Ms. Narucki with precision and tenderness and accompanied by just the percussive cimbalom, played here with richly pianistic resonance by Nicholas Tolle.
– New York Times (Zachary Woolfe)
Tracklist 7 tracks
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1 Stsenï iz romana (Scenes from a Novel), Op. 19 19:32
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Stsenï iz romana (Scenes from a Novel), Op. 19
- Duration
- 19:32
- Composer
- György Kurtág
- Performer
- Susan Narucki, Curtis Macomber, Kathryn Schulmeister, Nicholas Tolle
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2 Három régi felirat (3 Old Inscriptions), Op. 25 06:01
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Három régi felirat (3 Old Inscriptions), Op. 25
- Duration
- 06:01
- Composer
- György Kurtág
- Performer
- Susan Narucki, Donald Berman
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3 Eszká emlékzaj (S.K. Remembrance Noise), Op. 12 06:36
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Eszká emlékzaj (S.K. Remembrance Noise), Op. 12
- Duration
- 06:36
- Composer
- György Kurtág
- Performer
- Susan Narucki, Curtis Macomber
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4 József Attila-töredékek (Attila József Fragments), Op. 20 12:28
- Track
- 4
- Title
- József Attila-töredékek (Attila József Fragments), Op. 20
- Duration
- 12:28
- Composer
- György Kurtág
- Performer
- Susan Narucki
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5 7 Songs, Op. 22 09:15
- Track
- 5
- Title
- 7 Songs, Op. 22
- Duration
- 09:15
- Composer
- György Kurtág
- Performer
- Susan Narucki, Nicholas Tolle
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6 Rekviyem po drugu (Requiem for the Beloved), Op. 26 05:09
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Rekviyem po drugu (Requiem for the Beloved), Op. 26
- Duration
- 05:09
- Composer
- György Kurtág
- Performer
- Susan Narucki, Donald Berman
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7 Egy téli alkony emlékére (In Memory of a Winter Sunset), Op. 8 06:00
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Egy téli alkony emlékére (In Memory of a Winter Sunset), Op. 8
- Duration
- 06:00
- Composer
- György Kurtág
- Performer
- Susan Narucki, Curtis Macomber, Nicholas Tolle