27-29 Nov – HARMONIES DU SOIR – French chamber music festival - BOOK NOW

 

Kurtág & Friends

“Reducing music to its intense essentials, Mr. Kurtág cultivated a style of precisely controlled intensity.”
The New York Times

As a special early release of the 2026 program, we will be celebrating the centenary of one of the great living composers – György Kurtág. Heard at several ANAM concerts over the years, Kurtág's music can feel like overhearing a whispered confession, a sudden cry, or a fleeting memory. All condensed into crystalline form.

Kurtág’s artistic language was shaped by the devastation of World War II, his studies in Budapest alongside György Ligeti, and his later encounters with Western modernism in Paris, where he worked with teachers such as Olivier Messiaen and Marianne Stein. These experiences forged a style that, while informed by Bartók and Webern, became unmistakably his own: intimate, uncompromising, and charged with psychological intensity.

“Music fills my everyday life. I still read literature and everything else that interests me, I also compose and teach, but somehow everything always revolves around music.”
– György Kurtág

Béla BARTÓK Rhapsody No. 1 for violin and piano 
György LIGETI Études, Book I
György LIGETI Étude No. 1: i. Désordre, vi. Automne à Varsovie  
KURTÁG Hommage a R. Sch.: Six moments musicaux, op. 15d  
Robert SCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro, op. 70 
KURTÁG Six Pieces for trombone and piano  
KURTÁG Six Moments Musicaux, op. 44  

ANAM Musicians

Duration: approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes (includes a 20 minute interval)


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