All Kurtág articles
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ReviewConcert review: Antje Weithaas (violin) Enrico Pace (piano)
Carlos Maria Solare heads to Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal for a performance of Beethoven, Clara Schumann and Kurtág on 12 December 2023
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ReviewThe Strad Recommends: Anastasia Kobekina: Venice
Venice offers depths of inspiration in a memorable debut
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ReviewConcert review: Lucy Fitz Gibbon (soprano) Alexi Kenney, Lun Li (violins) Hélène Clément, Tanner Menees (viola) Yi Qun Xu (cello) William Langlie-Miletich (double bass)
Bruce Hodges visits Philadelphia’s American Philosophical Society for Mendelssohn, Wiancko, Kurtág, Kirsten and Beethoven on 12 April 2023
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ReviewConcert review: Isabelle Faust (violin) Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Carlos Maria Solare visits Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal for a concert of Mozart, Sainte-Colombe, Kurtág and Martinů on 1 March 2023
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja, Camerata Bern: Maria Mater Meretrix
A magnificent voyage of discovery from a musical maverick
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ReviewParker Quartet, Kim Kashkashian: Kurtág, Dvořák
Works by wildly contrasting composers partnered together are a revelation
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Camerata Bern/Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Peter Quantrill views the performance at Reitschule Bern, Switzerland, 27 March 2021
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta: Plaisirs Illuminés
Breathtaking vividness and attention to detail illuminate this collection
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FocusDiscovering Bartók, Ligeti and Kurtág in 3 seminal works
Casals Quartet violist Jonathan Brown chooses three key chamber pieces by the giants of Hungarian music
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NewsChristian Tetzlaff and Daniel Hope among 2017 ECHO Klassik winners
German classical music recording awards ceremony will take place at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in October
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ReviewSoli. Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin. G. Benjamin: Three Miniatures. Carter: Four Lauds – nos.1 & 3. Kurtág: Six Miniatures. Penderecki: Cadenza
The Strad Issue: August 2015Description: Tamsin Waley-Cohen alone in a sequence of solo worksMusicians: Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)Composer: Bartók, G. Benjamin, Carter, Kurtág, PendereckiThe opening Chaconne of Bartók’s adieu to music is spaciously conceived by Tamsin Waley-Cohen (taking 14 minutes to the 9 of its dedicatee Menuhin), without ...
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BlogsRecording solo violin music is a daunting task
Tamsin Waley-Cohen's new album of solo works by Bartók, Penderecki, Benjamin, Carter and Kurtág pushed the violinist to the physical and emotional extremes
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ArticleMaxwell Quartet performs György Kurtág's 12 Microludes
The Maxwell String Quartet plays György Kurtág's 12 Microludes, which the ensemble performed in concert at London's Purcell Room on 5 January - read the review in The Strad's April 2015 issue, out in March.Hungarian composer György Kurtág recently received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in ...
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ReviewSchnittke: String Trio Weinberg: String Trio. Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages (excerpts) Penderecki: String Trio
The Strad Issue: January 2015Description: Stylish performances that lack interpretative fireMusicians: Ensemble EpomeoComposer: Schnittke, Kurtág, PendereckiFor its second disc – generously filled, and rewardingly programmed – string trio Ensemble Epomeo focuses on music composed in Eastern Europe and Russia in the late 20th century, playing with a ...