Fourth in the Ligeti Project series, this remarkable disc includes works from various phases of Ligeti's career: the earliest, his Requiem, dating from the early '60s, and the later Hamburg Concerto, completed in 2002. Ligeti's Requiem, for soprano, mezzo, chorus, and orchestra, convincingly depicts an expanding, engulfing realm of despair, ...
Steve Reich has a remarkable arrangement for a composer in that he is an exclusive artist for Nonesuch and has been so for more than two decades. Back in 1996, when Reich celebrated his 60th birthday, Nonesuch issued a 10-CD box set of "everything" -- all of the works in the Warner Classics vaults that he had recorded, including some new at the ...
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 ...
Naïve 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 five CDs of Teldec's The Ligeti Project have been released individually, and each features extraordinarily fine, well-recorded versions of some of the composer's most important works. This compilation of the five discs is far from a complete collection of Ligeti's output; none of the piano music is represented (except for arrangements for ...
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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