Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. Kurtág! | HMJ Season

Conservatoire de Nantes, 4 Rue Gaëtan Rondeau

Ensemble Scorrevole: L. Leprêtre, voice - L. Berthomier, clarinet - B. Chemin and F. Billy, violins - G. Morin, viola - F. Girard, cello - C. Lacovidou and L. Frochot, pianos. On the occasion of György Kurtág’s centenary, the musicians pay homage to one of the greatest poets of contemporary music. This concert foregrounds the most striking aspects of the Hungarian composer’s output, through works such as his string quartets, his Trio Homage to Schumann, and excerpts from Kafka-Fragments, Játékok, and transcriptions of Bach’s Chorales. All these pieces testify to his constant dialogue with the…