Paul Griffiths

...and lucky.

Worthing getting up that early for...

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Morning Moon

Moon on sea with ship

First light
5:50

Moon and Spica

First light

Dawn

Morning Moon

Moon on sea with rocks

First light
5:57

Moon on sea

Very likely you knew this, Carl, but that's the first of very few additions Kurtág made to the text.

Fin de partie: Making a Song and Dance About it Reviews and articles have generally approached Kurtág’s opera by way of the Beckett play on which it draws, a natural consequence of the composer’s openly stated admiration for Beckett, and for thi...

More Kurtág: link to my article in CMR

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XAMQ6...

Kurtág 100 — 2 The second of two reports from Budapest

Second Substack post on the Kurtág 100 festival in Budapest

Moon and Jupiter

First light

The Agony of Pierre Boulez The Last of 2025: 1

New Substack post
disgwylfa.substack.com/p/the-agony-...

Kurtág 100 The first of two reports from Budapest

open.substack.com/pub/disgwylf...

Oh, yes, that is indeed a treasure.

Kurtág on stage again after his second big birthday concert with its conductor, András Keller

Couple of staff lines on my piece

Better shot of the cake:

The cake.

Kurtág just awarded honorary fellowship of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Oh, Tara!

Kurtág on stage at the close of his hundredth birthday concert at Müpa, Budapest, applauded for minutes by a capacity audience.

This latest Krasznahorkai is not to be found in my favourite Budapest bookshop (Atlantisz); it's reprinting. So we'll have to make do with this image from the publisher, whose copy on 'The Security of the Hungarian Nation' begins: 'All butterflies are moths but not all moths are butterflies...'