Wiener Klaviertrio: Bach & Kurtag, Cité de la Musique

About the Event

To hear Kurtág, a composer so steeped in tradition, in dialogue with Bach is to enter the soul of music in all its depths. Allow these secret treasures to reveal themselves among some of Bach's best‐known music.

There are many echos of the Baroque sonata, as exemplified by Bach, in the chamber music of Kurtág. One hears certain gestures that seem to have traveled through time: for example, the unity of the piano and muted strings in Varga Bálint Ligaturája or the solemnity of the chorale as it takes on a marvelous spectrum of color. Cross the frontiers of the centuries with the Vienna Piano Trio.