Kafka Fragments

Stellar new music champions Susan Narucki (soprano) and Curtis Macomber (violin) in two rare performances of the hellishly difficult but exhilaratingly beautiful Kafka Fragments. Hungarian composer György Kurtág’s seventy-five-minute multi-movement work uses fragments of texts from the diaries of Franz Kafka, to create a kaleidoscopic world of sound, sense and expression. Each fragment – some lasting less than a minute –is singular and potent; each movement offers a glimpse of a distinct viewpoint, and each gains in meaning through juxtapositions throughout the work as a whole.