Asko Ensemble;Schoenberg Ensemble;Nott - The Ligeti Project
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Artist: Asko Ensemble;Schoenberg Ensemble;NottComposer: Various
Conductor: Various
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2008-05-20
Music Label: Warner Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Melodien, for orchestra (or chamber orchestra)
- Chamber Concerto, for 13 instruments: 1. Corrente (Flie?end)
- Chamber Concerto, for 13 instruments: 2. Calmo, sostenuto
- Chamber Concerto, for 13 instruments: 3. Movimento preciso e meccanico
- Chamber Concerto, for 13 instruments: 4. Presto
- Piano Concerto: 1. Vivace molto ritmico e preciso
- Piano Concerto: 2. Lento e deserto
- Piano Concerto: 3. Vivace cantabile
- Piano Concerto: 4. Allegro risoluto, molto ritmico
- Piano Concerto: 5. Presto luminoso
- Mysteries of the Macabre, for soprano & ensemble, or trumpet & piano/ensemble (arr. from 'Le Grand Macabre' by E.Howarth)
- Lontano, for orchestra
- Atmosph?res, for large orchestra
- Apparitions, for orchestra: 1. Lento
- Apparitions, for orchestra: 2. Agitato
- San Francisco Polyphony, for orchestra
- Concert Rom?nesc, for orchestra: 1. Andantino
- Concert Rom?nesc, for orchestra: 2. Allegro vivace
- Concert Rom?nesc, for orchestra: 3. Adagio ma non troppo
- Concert Rom?nesc, for orchestra: 4. Molto vivace
- Cello Concerto: 1st Movement
- Cello Concerto: 2nd Movement
- Clocks and Clouds, for female voices & orchestra
- Violin Concerto: 1. Vivacissimo luminoso
- Violin Concerto: 2. Aria, Hoquetus, Choral. Andante con moto
- Violin Concerto: 3. Intermezzo. Presto fluido
- Violin Concerto: 4. Passacglia. Lento intenso
- Violin Concerto: 5. Appassionato. Agitato molto
- Sippal, dobbal, n?dihegeduvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles), for mezzo-soprano & percussion esemble: 1. Fabula
- Sippal, dobbal, n?dihegeduvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles), for mezzo-soprano & percussion esemble: 2. T?ncdal
- Sippal, dobbal, n?dihegeduvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles), for mezzo-soprano & percussion esemble: 3. K?nai templom
- Sippal, dobbal, n?dihegeduvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles), for mezzo-soprano & percussion esemble: 4. Kuli
- Sippal, dobbal, n?dihegeduvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles), for mezzo-soprano & percussion esemble: 5. Alma ?lma
- Sippal, dobbal, n?dihegeduvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles), for mezzo-soprano & percussion esemble: 6. Keser?des
- Sippal, dobbal, n?dihegeduvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles), for mezzo-soprano & percussion esemble: 7. Szajk?
- Hamburg Concerto, for horn & chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns: 1. Praeludium
- Hamburg Concerto, for horn & chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns: 2. Signale, Tanz, Choral
- Hamburg Concerto, for horn & chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns: 3. Aria, Aksak, Hoketus
- Hamburg Concerto, for horn & chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns: 4. Solo, Intermezzo, Mixtur, Kanon
- Hamburg Concerto, for horn & chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns: 5. Spectra
- Hamburg Concerto, for horn & chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns: 6. Capriccio
- Hamburg Concerto, for horn & chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns: 7. Hymnus
- Double Concerto, for flute, oboe & orchestra: 1. Calmo, con tenerezza
- Double Concerto, for flute, oboe & orchestra: 2. Allegro corrente
- Ramifications, for 12 strings (or string orchestra)
- Requiem, for soprano, mezzo-soprano, 2 choruses & orchestra: 1. Introitus. Sostenuto
- Requiem, for soprano, mezzo-soprano, 2 choruses & orchestra: 2. Kyrie. Molto espressivo
- Requiem, for soprano, mezzo-soprano, 2 choruses & orchestra: 3. De die judicii sequentia. Subito. Agitato molto
- Requiem, for soprano, mezzo-soprano, 2 choruses & orchestra: 4. Lacrimosa. Molto lento
- Aventures, for 3 voices & 7 instruments
- Nouvelles aventures, for 3 voices & 7 instruments: Nouvelles Aventures I
- Nouvelles aventures, for 3 voices & 7 instruments: Nouvelles Aventures II
- Artikulation, for tape
- Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano: 1. Sostenuto
- Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano: 2. Allegro con spirito
- Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano: 3. Tempo di Valse (poco vivace - ? l'orgue d Barbarie)
- Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano: 4. Con moto, giusto - Cantabile, molto legato
- Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano: 5. Vivace. Energico
- Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano: 6. (B?la Bart?k in memoriam) Adagio. Mesto - Allegretto maestoso
- Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano: 7. Vivace. Capriccioso
- Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano: 8. (Omaggio a Girolam Rescobaldi) Andante misurato e tranquillo
- Sonata for cello: 1. Dialogo. Adagio, rubato, cantabile
- Sonata for cello: 2. Capriccio. Presto con slancio
- The Big Turtle-Fanfare from the South China Sea
- Ballad and Dance (Balada si joc), for school orchestra: Andantino
- Ballad and Dance (Balada si joc), for school orchestra: Allegro vivace, energisch
- Old Hungarian Parlor Dances (R?gi magyar t?rsas t?ncok), for strings and flute (or clarinet) ad lib
Music reviews of The Ligeti Project
Music Review: Definitive Ligeti
Rating: 5 Stars
THE LIGETI PROJECT is the second of two efforts -- the first being Sony's "Gyorgy Ligeti Edition" -- to offer Gyorgy Ligeti's complete works in performances approved by the composer himself. While Sony's series mainly recorded Ligeti's chamber output, this successor series on Warner Classics was able to record his orchestral works. THE LIGETI PROJECT originally encompassed five full-priced discs released between 2001 and 2004. Happily, Warner Classics later packaged all these together in this box set, and you can enjoy many of Ligeti's key pieces at an economical price. The performers here are top-class and Ligeti's own hand-picked, with among others pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard continuing on from the Sony series, the Schoenberg Ensemble cond. Reinbert de Leeuw on the pieces for smaller forces, and the Berlin Philharmonic cond. Jonathan Nott on the large-scale works.
Excepting some early pieces written before the composer escaped from Communist Hungary, Ligeti's music generally falls into two periods. The first lasted from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s and is the era of "micropolyphony", an orchestral texture so dense that individual lines can scarcely be made out. From this period we have "Apparitions", "Atmospheres", "Adventures/Nouvelles Adventures", the Requiem, "Lontano", the Chamber, Cello and Double Concertos, "Ramifications", "Melodien", "Clocks and Clouds" and "San Francisco Polyphony". This is the spooky music featured in Kubrick's film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
Ligeti's second stylistic period came after a long hiatus at the end of the 1970s. Now he was mainly concerned with rhythm, including the remarkable music of the African Pygmies and of jazz innovators and with the unusual tunings one finds in Eastern European folk music, ocarinas and mountain horns. To this era belong the Piano and Violin Concertos, "Sippal, dobbal, nadihegeduvel" for soprano and percussion and -- what was sadly to be Ligeti's last work and possibly left uncompleted -- the Hamburg Concerto for horn.
The project has several works which don't fit neatly into these two eras and, to be honest, are basically filler, at least for me. These are the early "Concert Romanesc", a transcription of "Musica Ricercata" for bayan, and a godawful arrangement of old-timey ballroom dances. Ligeti's tape piece "Artikulations" is present here, in a stereo mixdown from four-channel, which is sometimes fun. He supressed its successor experiment "Glissandi" as juvenalia, though it was once released on a Wergo record. These were originally released on the fifth and last disc of the series, which I detested, but in this box set you're still getting the good stuff for less dough, so I can't complain as much and I can't rate the box as a whole less than five stars.
Ligeti's music seems to have had a much wider appeal than other contemporary composers. He was an avant-garde figure, but one keen to write music that is intriguing to the ear instead of merely interesting in paper, and there's a great deal of humour in his work. If you are new to Ligeti, I'd suggest saving THE LIGETI PROJECT for a bit later, after you've succeeded in acquiring the eight volumes of Sony's Gyorgy Ligeti Edition; sadly, Sony has allowed those recordings to fall out of print just like everything on the label that isn't crossover claptrap, so you need to move on those right away. Still, this here is half of Ligeti's amazing body of work, and you should hear it sooner or later.
Description of The Ligeti Project
This 5 CD set features works that enchant both the ear and mind. The box features favorites such as Lontano.Its refined tonal colors make it one of the most elegant pieces in the modernist canon. The Berlin Philharmonic
performs Apparitions, Ligeti s first success in the West after his escape from Hungary during the 1956 Soviet
invasion. Under its colorful fa?ade, San Francisco Polyphony demonstrates how uncompromising modern music
can be. Concert rom?nesc, harks back to Bart?k s transformations of folk material. Rich in color and vitality, its
four movements are full of the dissonances of village bands and melodies rooted in Romanian folk music.
Gy?rgy S?ndor Ligeti (1923-2006) was born in Romania to a Hungarian Jewish family and lived in Hungary
before later becoming an Austrian citizen. Many of his works are well known in classical music circles, but to
the general public, he is best known for the various pieces featured in the Stanley Kubrick films 2001: A Spac e
Odyssey, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut.
Works in the set include:
Melodien
Chamber Concerto
Piano Concerto (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)
*Mysteries of the Macabre (Peter Masseurs)
Lontano
Atmostpheres
*Asparitions
San Francisco Sykmphony
Cello Concerto
*Clocks and Clouds
Violin Concerto
*Sippal, dobbal, nadihegeduvel
*Concert rom?nesc
Hamburg Concerto
Double Concerto
Ramifications
Requiem
*Adventures, Nouvelles Adventures
Artikulation for Tape
Eight Pieces from Musica ricercata
Sonata for Cello Solo (David Geringas)
Big Turtle Fanfare for the South China Sea
Balada si joc
Regi Magyar tarsas tancok.
*Original world premiere recording
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( L ) > Ligeti, Gy?rgy
- Forms & Genres > Concertos > General
- Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Forms & Genres > Symphonies
- General Contemporary
- General Modern
- Instruments > Keyboard > Piano
- Strings > Cello
- Violin
- General
- Symphonies > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Vocal Non-Opera > Choruses
- Requiems
- Miscellaneous > General
- Classical - Featured Composers, A-Z - ( L ) - Ligeti, Gy?rgy - General
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