Kafka Fragments " review
Barbican, LondonLike so many of his works, the songcycle György Kurtág created from settings of tiny extracts from Franz Kafka's letters and diaries adds up to far more than the sum of its minuscule parts. Scored for just soprano and violin, the 40 numbers that make up Kafka Fragments range from just a few seconds in length to several minutes, and the whole cycle lasts a bit over an hour, its formal planning and …