Jeremy Eichler has written a beautiful portrait of György Kurtág for the Boston Globe. Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic present Kurtág's masterwork Stele at Carnegie Hall this Friday and at Boston's Symphony Hall next Monday. Rattle calls the work "a gravestone on which the entire history of European music is written."
Claudio Abbado conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, DG 447 761-2.
Previously: Kurtág on Ligeti, Kurtág in Vienna. Here is a translation of the speech that Kurtág gave in Ligeti's honor.
