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Cover: György Kurtág – Kafka Fragments

György Kurtág

Kafka Fragments

Anu Komsi, soprano
Sakari Oramo, violin

ODE 868-2 · CD · June 1996

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Track listing

4 tracks · 53:36

György Kurtág

  1. Kafka Fragments 54:01
  2. 1 Part I 14:50
  3. 2 Part II 5:28
  4. 3 Part III 13:53
  5. 4 Part IV 19:25

Features

Includes 24-page booklet with liner notes and libretto, in English, German, French, and Dutch

The artists

Anu Komsi

Finnish soprano Anu Komsi has been praised for her versatile musicianship and her dynamic coloratura voice. Equally at home on both opera and concert stages, she regularly appears throughout Europe and the United States.

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Sakari Oramo

Winner of the 2015 Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor of the Year award, Sakari Oramo is Chief Conductor of both the BBC Symphony and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic orchestras, and Principal Conductor of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. Between 1998 and 2008 he was Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and between 2004 and 2018 he was Principal Conductor of the West Coast Kokkola Opera. After a decade as Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, he has now served as their Honorary Conductor since 2012.

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