Kurtág: Játékok (excerpts)

Whether it be a question of metaphysics or simply one of ”physics”, piano writing which multiplies hands and fingers on the keyboard of a piano must necessarily experience a fatal syndrome of splitting and of highly fertile ”uncertainty”. An exceptionally rich and fruitful ”philosophical” doubt, for it is around it that many composers created some of the most vital piano pages in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here thus are Lutoslawski’s prodigious Paganini Variations, Kurtag’s sentimental and visionary Játékok (Games), Ligeti’s Three pieces for two pianos (Monument - Selbsportrait - Bewegung) and Berio’s Linea. Tackling these difficult works are pianists Biondi and Brunialti, forming a solid duo.