"The Ligeti Project" is a series of discs canvassing the many-faceted output of the octogenarian Hungarian composer that began over at Sony Classical. Weak sales caused Sony to shut the program down, at which point the series moved over to Teldec. Although Teldec has closed its doors for good, the project did manage to reach completion under its ...
This box collects several recordings of Satie's piano music by Dutch pianist Reinbert de Leeuw, going back as far as 1977, with an English-language DVD (not reviewed, but the idea is attractive) including a fictionalized presentation of Satie's relationship with artist Suzanne Valadon (after they broke up, he hung in his window cataloging her ...
The fifth volume of "The Ligeti Project" apparently concludes the series of the complete works of György Ligeti, started by Sony and continued by Teldec. The program consists of miscellaneous pieces performed by an ad hoc group of musicians, and the album's grab bag quality may limit its appeal. Aventures and Nouvelles aventures call for extremely ...
Mauricio Kagel is modernist whose music is easy to love. The program booklet's graphic layout and notes for the percussion setup for Kagel's Serenade are a perfect illustration of the composer's playfulness, the profligacy of his inventiveness, and his disregard for convention of any kind. The setup includes, among many other things, hurdy-gurdy, ...
Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel has done wonderful things over the past five decades in creating avant-garde music for arcane kinds of instrumental ensembles. In Die Stücke der Windrose (The Pieces of the Compass Rose), Kagel takes on the early twentieth century "tea time" ensemble of clarinet, strings, piano, harmonium, and percussion. Kagel ...
One of the last operas produced in the twentieth century was Louis Andriessen's Writing to Vermeer, premiered at the Netherlands Opera on December 1, 1999. It is a handsome production indeed, with libretto and gigantic film projection components by Peter Greenaway and bursts of electronic music contributed by Michel van der Aa. However, all things ...
Naďve has some of the finest performances of Messiaen in its catalog and brings together four previous releases on six discs with this bargain-priced collection. Reinbert de Leeuw, who's featured on three of the releases, on two as conductor and one as pianist, is one of the foremost Messiaen interpreters to emerge in the late twentieth century. ...
The listener's enjoyment of this album is probably largely contingent on his or her position along the spectrum of tolerance for latitude in performance practice, which has absolute fidelity to a score at one end and free improvisation at the other end. It is most likely to appeal to those with an openness to performances that fall around the ...
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