About this title: Representing virtually all phases of György Ligeti's mercurial career, the keyboard works on this disc make a fitting résumé. While a number of the pieces here reflect his avant-garde innovations -- chiefly Continuum and Volumina -- others are more accessible and appealing. The Five Pieces for piano four hands (1942-1950) are stylistically similar to music by Bartók and Poulenc, imbued with Hungarian color and rhythmic drive but presented with cosmopolitan flair and wit. The two Capriccios and the Invention (1947-1948) are exercises in dissonant counterpoint, yet the transparency of Ligeti's ...
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Format: CD
Label: CBS/EPIC/WTG RECORDS
UPC:074646230725
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