Susan Narucki & Curtis Macomber
György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments
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アメリカのソプラノ歌手
Susan Narucki
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マサチューセッツ州ニューベッドフォードに生まれの
ヴァイオリニスト
James Manheim
György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments, Op. 24, have been recorded by various soprano-and-violin pairs. The work poses challenges for both participants, from extended violin techniques to Sprechstimme, large leaps, and yelping in the vocal part. Yet it is perhaps the shifting relationships between the singer and the violin, with the violin part containing elements of both accompaniment and dialogue, that is the greatest trick. Soprano Susan Narucki and violinist Curtis Macomber have performed the work together for some time, and they are quite sensitive to the roles played by the two parts. As the title suggests, the work consists of settings of brief texts from Kafka's letters and other incidental texts. Some are less than 15 seconds long, and there is a mysterious atmosphere. Consider the 13th section, "Einmal brach ich mir das Bein" ("One time I broke my leg; it was the most wonderful experience of my life").