György Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente

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Across the whole cycle their intuitive rapport never falters and, feeding off each other, the sparks they generate meld the fragments into something greater than the sum of their parts...Kurtág... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 19th Aug 2022
Catalogue No: HMM902359
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 57 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

19th August 2022
BBC Music Magazine

October 2022

Recording of the Month
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2022
International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Contemporary Music
The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year

2022
BBC Music Magazine Awards

2023

Nominated - Vocal
Opus Klassik Awards

2023

Nominated - Solo Instrumental

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Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente, Op. 24, Teil 1

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Anna Prohaska, Isabelle Faust

Die Guten gehn im gleichen Schritt

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Wie ein Weg im Herbst

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Verstecke

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Ruhelos

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Berceuse I

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Nimmermehr (Excommunicatio)

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Wenn er mich immer frägt

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Es zupfte mich jemand am Kleid

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Die Weißnäherinnen

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Szene am Bahnhof

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Sonntag, den 19. Juli 1910 (Berceuse II). Hommage à Jeney

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Meine Ohrmuschel …

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Einmal brach ich mir das Bein (Chassidischer Tanz)

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Umpanzert

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Zwei Spazierstöcke (Authentisch-plagal)

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Keine Rückkehr

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Stolz (1910 / 15. November, zehn Uhr)

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Träumend hing die Blume. Hommage à Schumann

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Nichts dergleichen

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Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente, Op. 24, Teil 2

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Anna Prohaska, Isabelle Faust

Der wahre Weg. Hommage-message à Pierre Boulez

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Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente, Op. 24, Teil 3

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Anna Prohaska, Isabelle Faust

Haben? Sein?

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Der Coitus als Bestrafung. Canticulum Mariae Magdalenae

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Meine Festung

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Schmutzig bin ich, Milena …

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Elendes Leben (Double)

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Der begrenzte Kreis

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Ziel, Weg, Zögern

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So fest

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Verstecke (Double)

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Penetrant jüdisch

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Staunend sahen wir das große Pferd

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Szene in der Elektrischen. 1910, „Ich bat im Traum die Tänzerin Eduardowa, sie möchte doch den Csárdás noch einmal tanzen …"

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Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente, Op. 24, Teil 4

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Anna Prohaska, Isabelle Faust

Zu spät (22. Oktober 1913)

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Eine lange Geschichte

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In memoriam Robert Klein

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Aus einem alten Notizbuch

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Leoparden

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In memoriam Joannis Pilinszky

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Wiederum, wiederum

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Es blendete uns die Mondnacht …

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Recording of the Week, Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust perform György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente

19th August 2022

An extraordinary tour de force from the soprano and violinist duo, performing the Hungarian composer's great song cycle setting fragments of texts by Franz Kafka.

The Kafka-Fragmente, settings of excerpts from the diary, letters and a posthumous text by the author of The Trial, take the form of an intimate confession with no real narrative thread. Kurtág chose a soprano voice and a solo violin to express this fascinating kaleidoscope of emotional landscapes, in which humour, sensuality, desire and tenderness emerge in turn. A rare opportunity to hear the duo of Isabelle Faust and Anna Prohaska, both at the peak of their artistry!

Reviews

October 2022

Across the whole cycle their intuitive rapport never falters and, feeding off each other, the sparks they generate meld the fragments into something greater than the sum of their parts...Kurtág is never an easy listen, but in a disc as indispensable as this, he’s an essential one.

March/April 2023

Prohaska can sing with expressive beauty or demented madness. Faust effortlessly engages with Kurtág’s wild variety of violin sounds and techniques. The recording is ideally balanced and clear, and Harmonia Mundi includes full texts in German, French, and English, along with very helpful notes by Anne do Paço.

19th August 2022

Of all the great twentieth-century song cycles, one of the most fascinating must be György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente for soprano and violin...It is a phenomenal feat from both performers, and a roller-coaster of an hour both emotionally and in terms of the awe I consistently felt as the pair made apparent ease of the panoply of technical demands placed upon both of them.

18th August 2022

Kafka Fragments needs no visual enhancement to cast its spell, and Prohaska and Faust’s recording is among the best of what has become one of Kurtág’s most frequently recorded works...as you would expect from one of the world’s greatest violinists, Faust’s contribution is exemplary.

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