Program:
Kurtág Officium Breve for String Quartet
Beethoven Grosse Fuge, op. 133
Kurtág Játékok (Games) for Piano Four-Hands
J.S. Bach, arr. Kurtág Cantata Excerpts for Piano Four-Hands
Kurtág Hommage à Robert Schumann, op. 15d
Schumann Märchenerzählungen, op. 132
Kurtág Three Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 14e
Webern Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 7
This exploration of ensemble works by fiercely creative and widely admired Hungarian composer György Kurtág features the Daedalus Quartet ("exceptionally refined," New Yorker) and Miranda Cuckson ("striking", New York Times). Specializing in white-hot movements of thirty seconds to three minutes in length, Kurtág invests his miniatures with indelible personality and passion while retaining a connection to his heroes, Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and Webern, whose works share this program in equal measure.
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