The Ligeti Project, Vol. 5
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2004-06-22
Music Label: Teldec
Soundtracks:
- Aventures 10ft. 40in.
- Nouvelles Aventures I
- Nouvelles Aventures II
- Artikulation For Tape
- I Sostenuto
- II Allegro Con Spirito
- III Tempo Di Valse (Poco Vivace - A L'orgue De Barbarie)
- IV Con Moto, Giusto - Cantabile, Molto legato
- V Vivace. Energico
- VI (Bela Bartok In Memoriam) Adagio. Mesto - Allegretto Maestoso
- VII Vivace. Capriccioso
- VIII (Omaggio A Girolamo Frescobaldi) Andante Misurato E Tranquillo
- I Dialogo. Adagio, Rubato, Cantabile
- II Capriccio. Presto Con Slancio
- The Big Turtle Fanfare From The South China Sea
- Andantino
- Allegro Vivace, Energisch
- Regi Magyar Tarsas Tancok (Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances)
Music reviews of The Ligeti Project, Vol. 5
Music Review: Not exactly what we were hoping for
Rating: 3 Stars
I share Christopher Culver and Andrew Buckner's frustration about the contents of this, the last in the combined series of Sony Ligeti Edition and Teldec Ligeti Project CDs. The lack of the last three piano etudes from Book 3 (those not recorded on LE3) has been noted. Given that the recordings for Teldec's Ligeti Project extended into November 2002, whereas Ligeti stopped composing in roughly 2001, this is a head-scratcher. Also missing are the Three Bagatelles written for David Tudor in 1961, and a work of juvenilia called Chromatic Fantasy that Ligeti later withdrew. For these works, you'll need something like Fredrik Ullén's album of Ligeti's complete piano music. Furthermore, we lack the string orchestra version of Ramifications (though you do get the version for 12 solo strings on LP4), and the tape piece Glissandi from 1957 (which may have been withdrawn by the composer, but is still available on an old Wergo recording). A third sort tape piece, simply called Pièce Électronique No. 3, was sketched in 1958, but not realized until a 1996 residency in the Netherlands. Also nice to have would have been the original German version of Le Grand Macabre, which you might be able to track down from another Wergo recording. A single-LP edition from Wergo condensed the opera to half its length, a concise and very enjoyable version, but one not currently available on CD as far as I can tell.
Despite that disappointment, there're things to be glad for here. I do like these performances of Aventures/Nouvelles Aventures. The dynamic range and humor come out quite well, and the singing seems quite precise. Though I don't have a score available to me as I listen to this, I can at least tell that they're hitting their pitches when the instruments subsequently double them. I slightly prefer Salonen's recordings on LE4 (for reasons I give in my review of that album), but the ones here aren't at all bad, generally a little faster and a little more expressively exaggerated than those on LE4. Personally, I didn't completely understand these pieces until I saw them in a concert staging, but if your only exposure to Aventures/Nouvelles Aventures is through this CD, then you'll be served pretty well. You might think of this as a chamber opera written in an imaginary language where you get to choose the meaning of the words.
The CD also has the early tape piece Artikulation, for which your only other option in North America at present is the Wergo recording, which also has Ligeti's other completed tape piece Glissandi. Just as Ligeti's Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes lacks the sophistication of Xenakis's stochastic music or Cage's chance music, so does Artikulation suffer in comparison to early electroacoustic masterworks such as Déserts or Kontakte. Nevertheless, both Poème and Artikulation were vital links in Ligeti's development, and this two-track mixdown of Artikulation's original four tracks will help ensure that it stays available to us in the digital age.
Others have commented on the early cello sonata, of which the second movement adumbrates the "process music" that Ligeti was to explore after fleeing Hungary in 1956. The rest of the CD is of minor interest, chiefly devoted to yet another arrangement of the early Musica Ricercata collection, even though that work is already captured on LE3 (original version for piano), LE5 (barrel organ), LE6 (pipe organ, 1 piece) and LE7 (wind quintet, 6 pieces). It's a pity that we don't get the missing piano works and tape pieces, or the full string orchestra version of Ramifications. But I guess those would have been more expensive than a studio date with a single Russian accordionist.
To sum up, this CD is mainly for the completists among us. If you plan to get the Ligeti Project CDs, you should probably just go with the box set of all five and get the discount. If an especially good deal presents itself, maybe on a used copy, go for it. Otherwise, those picking and choosing among the Sony and Teldec CDs should probably relegate this to the bottom of their list.
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