23 Jun 2008

Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, Suffolk

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/86f11ace-4138-11dd-9661-0000779fd2ac.html

Kurtag.pngBy Martin Hoyle [Financial Times, 23 June 2008]

Last Thursday György Kurtág and his wife Márta played pieces from his piano collection Játékok on the sonically upholstered upright with its almost woolly sound now favoured by the composer, making his often spiky fragments into the musical equivalent of comfort food.