Thus, on the evening with cellist Miklós Perényi and pianists András Kemenes and Gábor Csalog, it is not the music of Bach and Kurtág, Schubert and Kurtág, or Mozart and Kurtág that is heard, but “pure” music, free from all stylistic and genre constraints, which draws both performer and listener into its spell. It is uplifting to realise that, in Csalog's words, as Kurtág's contemporaries, “we were and still are witnesses to the continuity of music history.” It is often said that Kurtág's art is in lively dialogue with tradition, but it may simply be that the questions that can be raised and answered in music have not changed since Bach or Schubert. According to András Kemenes, only those who deeply understand Mozart “can truly understand Kurtág. That is why I cannot separate them from each other. These are inseparable qualities.”
Program:
Franz Schubert: Kindermarsch, D. 928
György Kurtág: Games (selection)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G major, BWV 1027
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György Kurtág: Signs, games, messages for cello (selection)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sarabande in C minor, BWV 1011
Johann Sebastian Bach – György Kurtág: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 687
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in F major for piano four-hands, K. 497
Featuring:
Miklós Perényi – cello
Gábor Csalog – piano
András Kemenes – piano