György Ligeti Special Edition 2006

Gyorgy Ligeti: Requiem; Adventures; Nouvelles Aventures; String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Continuum für Cembalo; Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet; Articulation for Tape; Glissandi; Studies for Organ; Volumina

Normally: £17.58 NOW: £14.64 (£12.73 ex VAT) special offer ending 01/01/2009

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Artist(s): Liliana Poli (soprano), Barbro Ericson (mezzo-soprano), Gertie Charlent (soprano), Marie-Thérèse Cahn (alto), William Pearson (baritone), Arditti Quartet, Sinfonie-Orchester des Hessischen Rundfunks, Internationales Kammerensemble Darmstadt

Conductor(s): Bruno Maderna, Michael Gielen

Release Date: 30th October 2006

Born in 1923 and raised in what was then a predominantly ethnic Hungarian part of Transylvania, Ligeti suffered under the fascism and communism that caused him to flee Hungary in 1957. Stockhausen brought him to Cologne and helped introduce him to the musicians who would become his peers. He was a shy, gracious man who generally wore an air of professorial befuddlement but his stature in the musical community grew exponentially over the years, until he was considered one of the world's great composers.

 

Requiem [and Lux Aeterna] reached a mass audience when extracts were used in the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Wergo's previous Ligeti edition, released in 1998 for his 75th birthday was a best seller, despite being 6cds. Highlights from these classic recordings are now reissued on 3cds

 

 

Contents:

CD1: Requiem, Aventures, Nouvelles Aventures
Liliana Poli (soprano); Barbro Ericson (mezzo); Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Sinfonie-Orchester des Hessischen Rundfunks/Michael Gielen Gertie Charlent (soprano); Marie-Thérèse Cahn (alto);William Pearson (baritone);
Internationales Kammerensemble Darmstadt/Bruno Maderna

(previously available as WER 60045-50, recorded 1966/1968)

CD2: String Quartets 1 & 2
Arditti Quartet

(previously available as WER 60079-50, recorded 1978)

CD3: Continuum, 10 Pieces for Wind Quintet, Artikulation, Glissandi, Studies for Organ, Volumina
Antoinette Vischer (harpsichord); Bläserquintett Des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden; Zsigmond Szathmáry, Karl-Erik Welin (organ); György Ligeti, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Cornelius Cardew (electronics)
(previously available as WER 60161-50, recorded in 1957/1958/1962/1970)