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KAFKA-FRAGMENTE
Kurtág's piece for violin and soprano in a version with live video picturing Kafka's drawings
2022-2024
‘Kafka-Fragmente’ combines György Kurtág’s most improbable composition for solo violin and soprano with an animation of some of Kafka’s sketchy drawings, revealed to the public only in 2021.
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Wibert Aerts (violin)
Katrien Baerts (voice)
Lise Bruyneel (live video)
Arnon Grunberg (text, in the Netherlands)
First performed at Festival 2021 in Leuven
Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, May 2024
Eindhoven's Muziekgebouw, May 2024
Gent's Bijloke, May 2024
Utrecht, Vredenburg, November 2024
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2022-2024
From a certain point on, there is
no going back.
That is the point to reach.
FRANZ KAFKA
Above a few pictures from the premiere and rehearsal, below a few examples of Kafka's drawings used in associations with Kurtág.
Sex as punishment of the happiness of being together
FRANZ KAFKA
Below pictures of the tour of 2024, in a new version with Arnon Grunberg