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, ...
Fans of Martin Pearlman and the Boston Baroque will be delighted to find that they have at last ventured into recording Mozart's symphonies and concertos for Telarc; one hopes this 2005 hybrid SACD is a sign of great things to come. Though the two flute concertos seem a modest enough place to start -- a pair of the piano concertos might have made ...
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, ...
Fans of Martin Pearlman and the Boston Baroque will be delighted to find that they have at last ventured into recording Mozart's symphonies and concertos for Telarc; one hopes this 2005 disc is a sign of great things to come. Though the Flute Concertos (2) seem a modest enough place to start -- a pair of the piano concertos might have made a ...
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 ...
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