Gyorgy Kurtag's Officium Breve

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics by BBC

Sep 15, 201211:15Music

Critic and Hear and Now presenter Ivan Hewett nominates Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag's Officium Breve in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky for string quartet. With commentary from writer Paul Griffiths.

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