Now 91, the Hungarian composer György Kurtág belongs to the generation of Stockhausen, Ligeti and Boulez, yet has always walked his own highly distinctive path. Never one to use two words where one – or even a fragment of a word – will do, his music has been painstakingly picked out over the years, the briefest work sometimes taking half a decade to create and the same again to perfect and polish. These three CDs represent the composer’s complete output for chamber ensemble...