Description
adventures; nouvelles adventures i & ii; articulation for tape; 8 pieces from ?musica ricercata? for accordion; cello sonatas i & ii; big turtle fanfare; ballad and dance i & ii; old hungarian ballroom dances schoenberg ensemble - asko ensemble
reinbert de leeuw, conductor linda hirst, soprano; sarah leonard, mezzo-soprano; omar ebrahim, baritone; david geringas, cello; max bonnay, accordeon ?in the year of his 80th birthday, these are glorious accounts of great 20th-century works?.
(the guardian on volume iv of the teldec ligeti project) ?ligeti continues to explore and colonise new ground voraciously? if Ligeti?s music has a trademark, it is unpredictability? even now he is still questioning, still subjecting what he hears to his own intensely rigorous analysis. he Remains one of the severest
critics of contemporary music, as well as one of its greatest composers?. (guardian)
Artist
Austrian composer, born 28th May 1923 in Tîrnăveni (Romania), died 12th June 2006 in Wien (Vienna, Austria).
Studied composition in Cluj (Romania) and in Budapest (Hungary). From 1957 to 1959 he worked in Cologne at the Studio for Electronic Music of the WDR (West German Radio). He settled in Vienna in 1959 and became an Austrian citizen in 1967.
His style is characterized by a very dense polyphony (micropolyphony) and static forms (as in Lux aeterna, for choir, 1968, or in Requiem, 1963-65), and by a complex polyrhythmic technique (Etudes for piano, 1985).
Tracks
4
Artikulation For Tape
03:49
15
The Big Turtle Fanfare From The South China Sea
00:39
18
Régi Magyar Társas Táncok (Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances)
10:26
