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May 15 , 2007
New Prize for Kurtág’s Kafka
The ECM recording of György Kurtág’s “Kafka-Fragmente” has already won a number of awards, including the 2006 Modern Music Prize of the Japanese Record Academy Awards and the 2007 MIDEM Classical Award as Best Contemporary Music Album. The recording also collected the quarterly prize of the German Records Critics (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Bestenliste 2/2006). The disc was widely reviewed, and widely praised, all around the world...
Now comes a new prize. The “Kafka-Fragmente” has won the Belgian Prix Caecilia, awarded by the Union de la Presse Musicale Belge, as best chamber music album of the last year....
Anthony Holden in the UK’s The Observer: “Superbly performed by Juliane Banse and András Keller, each of whom can find a world of meaning in a single note, the work’s four sections build a musical mosaic as vivid and telling as the work of the great novelist to whom it pays homage.”
Robert Carl in US magazine fanfare: “This is a composer-supervised recording, and Keller was part of the duo that premiered this work so there’s double connection right to the source in this CD... The release was timed to celebrate Kurtág’s 80th birthday, and it’s a fitting present. A profoundly modest man, he’s undoubtedly one of the great living master composers, an artist with a devotion to his work and vision that’s unparalleled.”
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