23 Jun 2008
Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/86f11ace-4138-11dd-9661-0000779fd2ac.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/86f11ace-4138-11dd-9661-0000779fd2ac.html
By Martin Hoyle [Financial Times, 23 June 2008]
Last Thursday György Kurtág and his wife Márta played pieces from his piano collection Játékok on the sonically upholstered upright with its almost woolly sound now favoured by the composer, making his often spiky fragments into the musical equivalent of comfort food.