Kurtág: Kafka-Fragments Op. 24

…Arnold's contribution is enhanced by capricious and plangent playing from Movses Pogossian. The DVD features 15 minutes of a masterclass that highlights Kurtág's famously intensive coaching... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2009 More…

Release Date: 30th Mar 2009
Catalogue No: BRIDGE9270AB
Label: Bridge
Length: 60 minutes

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Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: The Good March In Step

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Like a Pathway In Autumn

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Hiding-Places

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Restless

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Berceuse I

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Nevermore - Excommunicatio

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: But He Just Won't Stop Asking Me

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Someone Tugged At My Clothes

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: The Seamstress

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Scene At the Station

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Sunday, 19th July 1910 (Berceuse II)

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: My Ear...

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Once I Broke My Leg...

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Enamoured

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Two Walking Sticks

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: No Going Back

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Pride (15th November 1910, 10 O'clock)

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: The Flower Hung Dreamily

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Nothing of the Kind

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: The True Path

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: To Have? to Be?

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Coitus As Punishment

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: My Fortress

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: I Am Dirty, Milena...

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Miserable Life (Double)

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: The Closed Circle

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Destination, Path, Hesitation - for Martha

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: As Tightly - for Beatrice and Peter Stein

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Hiding Places

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Offensively Jewish

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Amazed, We Saw the Great House

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Scene On a Tram

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Too Late (22nd October 1913)

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: A Long Story

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: In Memoriam Robert Klein

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: From an Old Notebook

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Leopards

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: In Memoriam Joannis Pilinszky

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: Again, Again

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Tony Arnold, Movses Pogossian

Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Kurtàg: The Moonlight Night Dazzled Us

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Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold

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Hungarian composer György Kurtág's singular masterpiece, Kafka Fragments, is presented here on CD and on DVD. The DVD includes a live concert performance of the piece, filmed in Yerevan, Armenia, as well as a filmed “masterclass” held in Budapest, Hungary, with Kurtág coaching the two performers. The CD contains a complete studio recording of Kafka Fragments, made in the USA. Kafka Fragments is one of Kurtág's most autobiographical works, the score peppered with personal references and messages to well-known musicians and other acquaintances.

This DVD/CD set presents stunning performances alongside a fascinating film of both Tony Arnold and Movses Pogossian working with the composer, striving for maximum expression in a work that presents huge challenges, both musically and intellectually.

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September 2009

…Arnold's contribution is enhanced by capricious and plangent playing from Movses Pogossian. The DVD features 15 minutes of a masterclass that highlights Kurtág's famously intensive coaching - as exacting as is his music, and with a similar outcome in that no one encountering it could remain unmoved.

1st May 2009

The settings are intense and intensely spare, with nothing wasted, and range from the comfortingly prosaic to the bafflingly elliptical. In the span of 50 minutes, a whole world is created, one that somehow fuses Kurtág and Kafka into a single organic unit.

Kurtág: Kafka-Fragments Op. 24

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