Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 & Vocal works - Warner Classics: 6279052 - 2 Presto CDs

Release Date: 5th Jul 2010
Catalogue No: 6279052
Label: Warner Classics
Series: 20th Century Classics
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

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Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 'Métamorphoses nocturnes'

Work length22:05

Artemis Quartet (string quartet)
Recorded: 1999-11-05
Recording Venue: 19-21 October & 2-5 November 1999. Funkhaus Wallrefplatz, Klaus von Bismarck-Saal, Köln.

Allegro grazioso

Track length1:34

Vivace, capriccioso

Track length2:01

Adagio mesto

Track length2:27

Presto

Track length1:12

Prestissimo

Track length1:40

Andante tranquillo

Track length3:06

Tempo di Valse, moderato con eleganza, un poco capriccioso

Track length0:57

Subito prestissimo

Track length1:30

Allegretto, un poco gioviale

Track length2:48

Prestissimo

Track length1:43

Ad libitum, senza misura

Track length1:45

Lento

Track length1:22

Ligeti: String Quartet No. 2

Work length20:48

Artemis Quartet
Recorded: 1999-11-05
Recording Venue: 19-21 October & 2-5 November 1999. Funkhaus Wallrefplatz, Klaus von Bismarck-Saal, Köln.

Allegro nevoso

Track length5:00

Sostenuto, molto calmo

Track length4:53

Come un meccanismo di precisione

Track length3:33

Presto furioso, brutale, tumultuoso

Track length2:07

Allegro con delicatezza

Track length5:15

Ligeti: Ramifications For 12 String Instruments

Work length8:04

Louis Auriacombe - Orchestre De Chambre De Toulouse, Louis Auriacombe (lead vocals)
Orchestre De Chambre De Toulouse
Recorded: 1970-01-01

Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for wind quartet

Work length10:17

Barry Tuckwell/Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet
Barry Tuckwell
Recorded: 1979-06-11
Recording Venue: Recorded 11-13 June 1979. No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London.

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length1:11

II. Rubato. Lamentoso

Track length2:37

III. Allegro grazioso

Track length2:17

IV. Presto ruvido

Track length0:52

V. Adagio. Mesto (Béla Bartók in memoriam)

Track length1:58

VI. Molto vivace. Capriccioso

Track length1:22

Ligeti: Lux aeterna

Work length7:48

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1988-11-10
Recording Venue: 7-10 November 1988, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

Ligeti: Three Fantasies

Work length12:43

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1988-01-01
Recording Venue: 7-10 November 1988, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

I. Hälfte des Lebens

Track length3:35

II. Wenn aus der Ferne

Track length5:47

III. Abendphantasie

Track length3:21

Ligeti: Magány (Loneliness)

Work length3:03

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1988-01-01
Recording Venue: 7-10 November 1988, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

Ligeti: Pápainé (Widow Pápai)

Work length3:57

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1988-01-01
Recording Venue: 7-10 November 1988, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

Ligeti: Éjszaka (Night)

Work length2:45

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1988-01-01
Recording Venue: 7-10 November 1988, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

Ligeti: Reggel (Morning)

Work length1:23

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1988-01-01
Recording Venue: 7-10 November 1988, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

Ligeti: Hungarian Studies

Work length5:48

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1988-01-01
Recording Venue: 7-10 November 1988, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

I. Mirror Canon

Track length1:50

II. Study

Track length1:34

III. Vásár (Fair)

Track length2:24

Ligeti: Three Hungarian Folksongs

Work length6:16

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1990-01-01
Recording Venue: 12 January 1990, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

Bujdosó (Song of exile)

Track length2:08

Kállai kettös (Kalla's pas de deux)

Track length2:55

Lakodalmas (The wedding)

Track length1:13

Ligeti: Mátraszentimrei dalok (Songs from the Mátraszentimre region)

Work length5:19

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1990-01-01
Recording Venue: 12 January 1990, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

Három hordó (Three barrels)

Track length1:20

Igaz szerelem (True love)

Track length1:00

Gomb, gomb (Pom-pom)

Track length1:52

Erdöbe, erdöbe (Out in the woods)

Track length1:07

Ligeti: Pletykázó asszonyok (The gossips)

Work length1:44

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1990-01-01
Recording Venue: 12 January 1990, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

Ligeti: Haj, ifjuság! (Oh, youth!)

Work length3:05

Groupe Vocal De France
Guy Reibel
Recorded: 1990-01-01
Recording Venue: 12 January 1990, Eglise Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris

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Lux Aeterna put Ligeti on the map for the wider public when Stanley Kubrick appropriated it for its unearthly effect in his film 2001, A Space Odyssey. But his music began firmly in his Hungarian roots, and bears a debt to Bartók and Kodály. Both sides of this modern master are heard here.

The Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006) was born in Romania of Hungarian Jewish parents. As a Jew living in mid-20th-century central-Europe, Ligeti's early musical training was interrupted by World War II. He was detained in a Nazi labour camp while other members of his family were sent to Auschwitz: only he and his mother survived the War. At the cessation of hostilities Ligeti continued his studies in Budapest until 1956, when the Soviets repressed the Hungarian revolution. He fled to Vienna and, some years later, became an Austrian citizen. Now in the West, Ligeti was free to develop and meet the leading composers in European avant-garde music of the time. Figures like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gottfried Koenig and Herbert Eimert encouraged him to join them at the electronic music studio of Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne. It was the première of his Apparitions in 1960 that launched his international career. The first disc in this set comprises the two string quartets from 1953/54 and 1968 respectively; Ramifications from 1968/69 and the Six Bagatelles from 1953 (these last two recordings are new to CD). The second disc contains a selection of Ligeti's vocal works. Ligeti died in June of 2006 in Vienna and was buried there. He is, perhaps, best known for the various pieces of his music that Stanley Kubrick used in several of his films, notably 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut

Ligeti - String Quartets 1 & 2 & Vocal works

2 Presto CDs

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