As immediate, as poignant and as funny as a Beckett play, György Kurtág’s setting of poems by the writer makes for a riveting solo performance. We meet a man at the end of his rope, amid explosions of musical color and grace. Kurtág is an artist who subscribes to Beckett’s formula of reducing everything to its maximum, and so was John Cage in his last decade, creating a music of single notes and harmonies floating in space. A wild viola solo by Heinz Holliger – another composer drawn to Beckett’s verbal landscapes – opens this voyage into inner space.