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Gyorgy Kurtag: The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza, Op. 7, A 'Concerto' for Soprano and Piano.(Book Review)

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Gyorgy Kurtag: The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza, Op. 7, A 'Concerto' for Soprano and Piano. By Rachel Beckles Willson. (Landmarks in Music Since 1950.) Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2003. [vii, 192 p. ISBN 0754608093. $69.95.] Index, bibliography, appendices, photographs, illustrations, charts, music examples, compact disc.

Described in the preface by series editor Wyndham Thomas as a "specialist book on [an] individual work composed since the end of the Second World War," (p. xiii) this is a concisely written tome on a single composition by a single composer. In this case the composition in question is Gyorgy Kurtag's The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza, Op. 7, a ...

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