Deutsche Grammophon's budget-priced, four-CD collection of all the works by György Ligeti in its catalog has many things to commend it, beginning with the title. Clear or Cloudy is a profoundly astute description of the composer's career, encompassing both the great sound clouds of his micropolyphonic work of the 1960s, such as Atmosphères, ...
Max Reger's music is not stylistically uniform, but the three organ works on this album from Aeolus represent what many regard as his typical approach: each piece involves highly chromatic counterpoint that results in unstable harmonies and far-flung modulations, sometimes to the point where the very concept of key becomes moot. The Variations and ...
Back in the late '60s, German organist Gerd Zacher was practically synonymous with the avant-garde as it related to the organ, assisted by the use of his great 1962 recording of György Ligeti's Volumina in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the United States, several of his German-made recordings found issue on the short-lived Heliodor label, ...
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