Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.At just over a year from his 100th birthday, Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g presides over musical life from his apartment above the Budapest Music Centre. He is still composing and says that his Beckett-inspired opera Fin de partie may yet acquire further scenes.After a wide search, baritone Benjamin Appl was chosen by Kurt\u00e1g to perform his H\u00f6lderlin-Ges\u00e4nge in 2019. The result was a close working friendship between singer and composer, a \u201cstern self-critic\u201d and \u201cunpretentious intellectual\u201d (in Appl\u2019s words), that has led to this recording.The performance of the six H\u00f6lderlin-Ges\u00e4nge is the deserving centrepiece of the programme. These are typical Kurt\u00e1g miniatures, mostly with no accompaniment, and do not waste a single note. In setting H\u00f6lderlin\u2019s pithy, mystical texts Kurt\u00e1g has responded with wisps of lyrical beauty, suppressing occasional outbursts of angst \u2014 a compelling short cycle. There are seven other Kurt\u00e1g songs, five of them recorded for the first time. Appl reports that the recording sessions took 12 days and more than 1,300 takes to satisfy Kurt\u00e1g\u2019s desire for perfection. Just remember that when listening to the chant-like simplicity of \u201cCircumdederunt\u201d or the concentrated epigrams of his Ulrike Schuster settings, the latter accompanied by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.Alongside are seven songs by Schubert and one by Brahms, beautifully sung by Appl and two of them accompanied, with generous pedalling, by Kurt\u00e1g himself. The recording ends with an 18-minute conversation in German between Appl and Kurt\u00e1g (translations provided), which will surely acquire historic value.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018Schubert and Kurt\u00e1g: Lines of Life\u2019 is released by Alpha Classics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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