Kafka-Fragmente

"Kafka Fragments needs no visual enhancement to cast its spell, and Prohaska and Faust's recording is among the best of what has become one of Kurtág's most frequently recorded works ... As you would expect from one of the world's greatest violinists, Faust's contribution is exemplary".

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"Heldigvis skuffer Juliane Banses og András Kellers nyindspilning ikke. Den er et mirakel af differentieret og intelligent musiceren og en fornem fødselsdagsgave til György Kurtág, der fyldte 80 år i februar".

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"Urgently recommended".

"Caroline Melzer and Nurit Stark yield nothing to previous performers in penetrating the depth and breadth of emotion that Kurtag conveys, and it helps that this is the best recorded version available, allowing their wide range of tone, colour and dynamics to be heard to full effect".

"Prohaska und Faust - hier haben sich zwei gefunden, die den Herausforderungen dieser Musik jederzeit gerecht werden. Sie geben sich nicht mit halbgaren Erkenntnissen zufrieden. Zunächst finden sie einen klugen dramaturgischen Bogen für die einzelnen Stücke ... Ob Kratzgeräusche, jaulende Glissandi, gezupfte Doppelgriffe - das Spektrum der erfolgreich gemeisterten Anforderungen ist gross. Damit hat die mehr als anderthalb Jahrzehte alte Einspielung mit Juliane Banse und András Keller nun ein künstlerisches Äquivalent gefunden".

"Recording of the month: Begun in 1985 and premiered two years later, György Kurtág's Kafka-derived miniatures occupy that happy meeting place where words and music seem almost to have been made for each other ... But it's also testament to the consummate chemistry between Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust. Across the whole cycle their intuitive rapport never falters and, feeding off each other, the sparks they generate meld the fragments into something greater than the sum of their parts ... Kurtág is never an easy listen, but in a disc as indispensable as this, he's an essential one".