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Sonic Rebellion: Alternative Classical Collection

Sonic Rebellion: Alternative Classical Collection (2007) more music like this

performed by Aaron Shorr (piano), Albert Schweitzer Quintet, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Art Nouveau Ensemble, Boris Berman (prepared piano), Continuum, Elsbeth Moser (bayan), Jørgen Plaetner (electronics), Kathrin Rabus (violin), Laura Mikkola (piano), Maria Kliegel (cello)
composed by Arvo Pärt, Charles Wuorinen, Conlon Nancarrow, Edgard Varèse, Einojuhani Rautavaara, George Crumb, Giacinto Scelsi, György Ligeti, Hans Werner Henze, John Adams, John Cage, Jørgen Plaetner, Krzysztof Penderecki, Philip Glass, Sofia Gubaidulina

The Naxos label diverges from its usual plain graphic design with this attempt to create the idea of an "alternative classical" genre, an idea that has paid big dividends when applied to rock and country music. Most of the selections are drawn from existing Naxos releases, with a few taken from discs by Denmark's Da Capo and Germany's CPO labels. ...

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Carnegie Hall

Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Carnegie Hall (2002) more music like this

performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
composed by Alban Berg, Claude Debussy, Franz Liszt, György Ligeti, Ludwig van Beethoven, Olivier Messiaen

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György Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy

György Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy (2006) more music like this

performed by Alfons Kontarsky (piano), Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Douglas Boyd (oboe), Ensemble InterContemporain, Gerd Zacher (organ), Gianluca Cascioli (piano), Hagen Quartett, Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Jacques Zoon (flute), James Sommerville (horn)
composed by György Ligeti

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, ...

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The Ligeti Project, Vol. 3

The Ligeti Project, Vol. 3 (2001) more music like this

performed by Amadinda Percussion Group, Asko-Schönberg Ensemble, Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Katalin Károlyi (mezzo-soprano), Siegfried Palm (violoncello), Cappella Amsterdam (choir, chorus), Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)
composed by György Ligeti

"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 ...

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The Ligeti Project, Vol. 1

The Ligeti Project, Vol. 1 (2001) more music like this

performed by ASKO Ensemble, Peter Masseurs (trumpet), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Schoenberg Ensemble
composed by György Ligeti

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The Eleventh Finger

The Eleventh Finger (2006) more music like this

performed by Jenny Lin (piano)
composed by Arthur Kampela, Claude Vivier, Elliott Sharp, György Ligeti, James Tenney, Randy Nordschow, Stefano Gervasoni

Koch's The Eleventh Finger with pianist Jenny Lin literally hits the ground running -- the disc starts and the listener is cast into the maelstrom that is Arthur Kampela's Nosturnos -- super-fast, hair-trigger precise, racing fingers rolling around an "impossible" ostinato. Brace yourselves, as The Eleventh Finger is like a thrill ride for musical ...

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The Ligeti Project, Vol. 2

The Ligeti Project, Vol. 2 (2002) more music like this

performed by Berliner Philharmoniker, Jonathan Nott (conductor)
composed by György Ligeti

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Ligeti: Works for Piano

Ligeti: Works for Piano (1996) more music like this

performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
composed by György Ligeti

Pierre-Laurent Aimard was the first pianist to record Book One of Ligeti's preludes on an Erato release from the early '90s, which also included the first recording of the composer's Trio for horn, violin, and piano. The preludes were so dazzling and Aimard's playing was so dazzling that it was astonishing when the composer went on to write an ...

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Ligeti: Chamber Music

Ligeti: Chamber Music (1998) more music like this

performed by Gareth Hulse (oboe), Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn), Michael Collins [clarinet] (clarinet), Philippa Davies (flute), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Richard Watkins (horn), Robin O'Neill (bassoon), Saschko Gawriloff (violin), Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
composed by György Ligeti

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Ligeti: A Cappella Choral Works

Ligeti: A Cappella Choral Works (1996) more music like this

performed by London Sinfonietta Voices (choir, chorus), Terry Edwards (conductor)
composed by György Ligeti

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Ligeti: Continuum; Volumina (1997) more music like this

performed by Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord), Irina Kataeva (piano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Zsigmond Szathmáry (organ)
composed by György Ligeti

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 ...

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Ionisation: Music of Varèse, Penderecki, Ligeti (1995) more music like this

performed by Ensemble "Die Reihe", Gabriel Banat (violin), Gerd Zacher (organ), Helmut Reissberger (flute), Ileana Vered (piano), Kohon String Quartet, Thomas Blees (cello), Stuttgart Schola Cantorum (choir, chorus), Luxembourg Radio Orchestra
composed by Edgard Varèse, György Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki

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Ligeti: Concertos for Cello, Violin & Piano more music like this

performed by Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Saschko Gawriloff (violin), Pierre Boulez (conductor)
composed by György Ligeti

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Solo Cello (1999) more music like this

performed by Wolfgang Boettcher (cello)
composed by Aribert Reimann, Ernst Krenek, György Ligeti, Hans Werner Henze, Jacques Ibert, Luigi Dallapiccola, Paul Hindemith, Volker David Kirchner, Witold Lutoslawski

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Ligeti: Edition Five Mechanical Music more music like this

performed by Pierre Charial (organ)
composed by György Ligeti

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Ligeti: String Quartets and Duets (1996) more music like this

performed by Arditti String Quartet, David Alberman (violin), Garth Knox (viola), Irvine Arditti (violin), Rohan de Saram (cello)
composed by György Ligeti

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Extraterrestrial Classics (1997) more music like this

performed by Arnold Steinhardt (violin), David Soyer (cello), David Theodore (oboe), David Watkins (harp), Guarneri Quartet, Isao Tomita (electronics), James Brown (horn), John Dalley (violin), Julius Levine (double bass), Michael Tree (viola), Musica Sacra
composed by Alexander Borodin, Canhoto da Paraiba, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Gustav Holst, György Ligeti, Isao Tomita, John Williams, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The Ligeti Project, Vol. 4 (2003) more music like this

performed by ASKO Ensemble, Caroline Stein (soprano), Heinz Holliger (oboe), Jacques Zoon (flute), Margriet van Reisen (mezzo-soprano), Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn), Ozan Cakar (natural horn), Schoenberg Ensemble, Simon Breyer (natural horn)
composed by György Ligeti

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, ...

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Ligeti: Etudes (Books 1 & 2) (2003) more music like this

performed by Idil Biret (piano)
composed by György Ligeti

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Voices 1900/2000 (2001) more music like this

performed by Marc Shapiro (piano), San Francisco Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus)
composed by Aaron Copland, Aaron Jay Kernis, American Traditional, Carl Rütti, Claude Debussy, Conrad Susa, Francis Poulenc, György Ligeti, Henk Badings, Jerome Kern, John Tavener, Leonard Bernstein, Meredith Monk, Morten Lauridsen, Randall Thompson, Samuel Barber

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Ligeti: String Quartets 1 & 2 (2005) more music like this

performed by Artemis Quartett
composed by György Ligeti

Originally released in 2000 on Ars Musici, the sublime recordings by the Artemis Quartett of György Ligeti's String Quartet No. 1, "Métamorphoses nocturnes" (1953-1954), and his String Quartet No. 2 (1968) fully merit this 2005 reissue by Virgin Classics, not only for the high quality of the music -- surely some of the most communicative and ...

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Béla Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins (2002) more music like this

performed by Andras Keller (violin), Janos Pilz (violin)
composed by Béla Bartók, György Kurtág, György Ligeti

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Piano Dance: A 20th-Century Portrait (2000) more music like this

performed by Gloria Cheng (piano)
composed by Alberto Ginastera, Alexander Scriabin, Béla Bartók, Bohuslav Martinu, Claude Debussy, Donald Davis, Federico Mompou, Francis Poulenc, George Antheil, György Ligeti, Henry Cowell, Igor Stravinsky, Joan Huang, Leo Ornstein, Maurice Ravel, Miguel del Aguila

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Of Eternal Light (1993) more music like this

performed by Musica Sacra, Richard Westenburg (conductor)
composed by György Ligeti, Kim D. Sherman, Meredith Monk, Olivier Messiaen, Ricky Ian Gordon, Robert Moran

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The Ligeti Project, Vol. 5 (2004) more music like this

performed by ASKO Ensemble, David Geringas (cello), Linda Hirst (mezzo-soprano), Max Bonnay (bayan), Omar Ebrahim (baritone), Peter Masseurs (trumpet), Sarah Leonard (soprano), Schoenberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)
composed by György Ligeti

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 ...

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