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Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms in Bristol: soprano Anu Komsi and violinist Sakari Oramo perform Kurtág's intense and searching Kafka Fragments.

Presented by Alex Humphreys

György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments

Anu Komsi (soprano)
Sakari Oramo (violin)

Part song cycle, part personal diary, at once a duet and a duel between soprano and violin, György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments is a collection of musical aphorisms – an armful of miniatures that both provoke and defy interpretation. Fragile and hauntingly lyrical, violent and sensual, these distilled works – few of them longer than a minute – explore the strange kinship between composer and author in music haunted by the ghosts of Bach, Bartók, Schumann and more. Celebrated Finnish musicians Anu Komsi and Sakari Oramo perform this intimate recital as part of the composer’s 100th-birthday celebrations.