G. Kurtag: Selected String Trio and Solo Cello Miniatures

Virág az ember
A Flower for Dénes Zsigmondy
Hommage à J. S. Bach
Perpetuum mobile
Homage a John Cage and In Folk Style

G. Ligeti: Selected pieces for four hands at piano

Three Wedding Dances
Sonatina
Polyfönetüd

F. Schubert: Fantasie in F minor for four hands at piano, D. 940

Interval

J. Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101

J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043

J. Liebeck - violin
A. Raikhlina - violin
B. Roskams - viola
L. Anderson - viola
D. Djordjevic - cello
A. Brendel - cello
S. Watton - double bass
K. Chong - piano
D. Driver - piano
J. Crabb - accordion
The Festival Players

Kurtag and Ligeti make an acerbic introduction to Schubert’s haunting Fantasie. Its mood changes, from melancholy to grandiose and back again, are as quicksilver as the composition is inspired. The second half is much sunnier, with Brahms’ final string trio and the well-known Bach “Double” Concerto.