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Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie (The Answered Unanswered Question) Op. 31b (Version 1) - for violoncello with two bows, two violins and celesta

Composer
Kurtág György
Original / Hungarian title
Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie (The Answered Unanswered Question) Op. 31b (1. változat) - gordonkára két vonóval, két hegedűre és cselesztára
Foreign language / English title
Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie (The Answered Unanswered Question) Op. 31b (Version 1) - for violoncello with two bows, two violins and celesta
Year of composition
1989
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
4
Instrumentation
vlc. solo (with two bows), 2 vl., cel. (dispersed in space)
Duration
3 min
Premiere information
25 September 1990, Oslo, ISCM Festival; Frances-Marie Uitti (vlc.), Kjell Arne Jörgensen (vl.), Eileen Siegel (vl.), (the celesta was omitted)
Publisher / Source
Editio Musica Budapest © 1995, Z. 13 957 (playing score)
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Recordings
COL LEGNO WWE 2CD 31870, 1994; ECM (NEW SERIES) 1598 [453 258-2], 1996
1 min. sample
1 Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie (Version 1)
Remarks, other info
The right of the performance of this version is exclusively reserved for Frances-Marie Uitti until 1999.

An earlier version for violoncello solo with two bows entitled The Answered Unanswered Question Op. 31a has been embedded in and is playable from the score of Ligatura—Message to Frances-Marie Op. 31b.

See also:
Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie (The Answered Unanswered Question) Op. 31b (Version 2) - for two violoncellos, two violins and celesta

Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie (The Answered Unanswered Question) Op. 31b (Version 3) - for two organs and celesta