Tamsin-Waley Cohen concert review in The Guardian

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Tamsin Waley-Cohen and soprano Claire Booth performed Kafka Fragments by Kurtag at the Oxford International Song Festival. Andrew Clements reviewed for The Guardian:

“The hour-long song-cycle is Kurtág’s most substantial concert work and arguably one of his greatest, made up of 40 settings of scraps from his diaries and letters that run the gamut from everyday trivia to anguished confessions, and present enormous virtuoso challenges for both performers. Booth and Waley-Cohen met those challenges quite superbly, matching each other’s intensity; though it’s a work that is sometimes staged, as they showed, it really needs no theatrical extras to make a shattering impact”

Read the full review here: www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/14/williams-burch-booth-waley-cohen-review-oxford-international-song-festival

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