Bard Kurtág Festival

Songs, Laments, Dances, Games

Bartók: Pieces from For Children 
Peasant’s Flute; Children at Play; Pillow Dance; “Hey, Tulip, Tulip”; Round Dance; “I Lost My Partner”; Bagpipe II; Drinking Song; Children’s Dance; Dance Song
Ivy Chen – cimbalom, András Szalai – piano

Kurtág: Tre pezzi op. 38
Dávid Kéringer – clarinet, András Szalai – cimbalom

Kurtág: Un brin de bruyère à Witold (In memoriam Witold Lutosławki)
Kurtág: Hommage à Halmágyi Mihály
Sophia Cornicello – piano, András Szalai – cimbalom

Ligeti: Études Automne à Varsovie 5’
Sophia Cornicello – piano

Kurtág: Herdecker Eurhythmie Part 1 op. 14a 5’ Self-Will; Hommage à J. S. B.; Flowers We Are (1); Quarrel and Gentleness; Flowers We Are (2)
Liliána Szokol – flute, András Szalai – cimbalom

Kurtág: Pieces from Games 
Beating; Trumbe-bunny; Bluebell; Thistle; Labyrinthine D (with echo); Vigorously; Hommage à Petrovics; Stubbunny Alexandra Balog – piano, András Szalai – cimbalom

Kurtág: Hommage à Berényi Ferenc 70
Nathaniel Valsania – cimbalom

Couperin: Les Bergeries The Shepherdesses
Nathaniel Valsania – cimbalom, András Szalai – piano
Bartók: Sonatina 4’
Dávid Kéringer – clarinet, András Szalai – cimbalom

Intermission

Béla Bartók – Falun (Village Scenes), Sz. 78, BB 87a 
Lucy Fitz Gibbons, soprano; Kayo Iwama, piano

György Kurtág – In Memory of a Winter Evening, Op. 8 
Daphne Buan, soprano
András Szalai, cimbalom
Mira Wang, violin

Thomas Adès – Növények for mezzo-soprano and piano sextet

Benjamin Hochman, Artistic Director