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Three days on the composer who builds whole worlds out of a few notes and the silence after them.
Classical
At Wigmore Hall.
Kurtág turned a hundred in February 2026, and he has spent a career proving that a piece lasting forty seconds can be complete. Five concerts over three days take the two works that show it best: Kafka Fragments, forty short settings for soprano and violin, sung by Rebecca Hardwick with Tamsin Waley-Cohen and introduced the day before in conversation with Toby Young; and Játékok, the enormous collection of what Kurtág calls pedagogical performance pieces, played by Pierre-Laurent Aimard across three concerts on the Saturday and billed as three breaths - morning, evening and late night.
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