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Kurtág, Prohaska and Faust make sparks fly

György Kurtág

Kafka-Fragmente

Anna Prohaska (soprano), Isabelle Faust (violin)

Harmonia Mundi HMM902359 58:06 mins

Begun in 1985 and premiered two years later, György Kurtág’s Kafka-derived miniatures occupy that happy meeting place where words and music seem almost to have been made for each other. His interest in the Czech writer had been rekindled during study in

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