Usually, I abhor playlists, best-ofs, compilations, and similar. But this concert, packed with short, interconnected, and interspersed works by Kurt\u00e1g, Bart\u00f3k, and Kod\u00e1ly plus Bach transcriptions by Kurt\u00e1g, curated and cleverly catenated by Martin Schminke, was a delight to listen to: pieces for string quartet, trio, duo, and viola solo, presented with first-rate performances by Schminke, Ma Shuang, Till Mengler, and Jana Simi\u0107.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d never heard Kurt\u00e1g\u2019s Bach transcriptions before, but I can highly recommend them! And everything else in any case\u2014from Kurt\u00e1g\u2019s Microludes Op.13 to Bart\u00f3k\u2019s violin duos to K\u00f3daly\u2019s trio to, of course, Bart\u00f3k\u2019s String Quartet No.2 in A minor.<\/p>\n
Relistening to them is always worthwhile. And if you don\u2019t already know them, then do listen to them, and let them broaden your horizon!<\/p>\n
Kurt\u00e1g 100!<\/a> \ud83c\udfb5 Chamber music flourishes in small spaces.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6697"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSalon Neue Musik, Klangraum 61, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany
\nMay 10, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"