György Ligeti

Check out these threads:

Ligeti Is Dead
Ligeti Requiem – Recording Used on 2001
Ligetti, Berio, Nono, Feldman, Takemitsu

And, tangentially, this one:

12 Note Inevitability?

Thanks to everyone writing about him here for making me discover him, by the way. The first modern composer I unreservedly idolize, no less.

again, don't mean to turn this board into file sharing hub but can not resist...



György Ligeti: CLEAR OR CLOUDY - COMPLETE RECORDINGS ON DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
(Deutsche Grammophon Collector's Edition, 4cd, released Sept 2006)

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?7m0mmmmmjdm
Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?3odwmqwmhkz
Part 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?7mjn2zint2m
Part 4: http://www.mediafire.com/?2yzluucjzj1
Part 5: http://www.mediafire.com/?ammygym3jmi
(ripped from discs to Apple Lossless)

Big fans probably have all these anyway, but having all these excellent recordings in one place is a treasure...I figured I'd go ahead and make it lossless, if bulky. If you haven't heard Ligeti yet, I bet you have---but I'll let you recognize it after you've shot your own cinematic hallucination first. I guess I would start with "Aventures" and "Nouvelles Aventures", and the Cello Concerto, which is amazing. Such good stuff. He was utterly brilliant.

DISC 1
1. Sonata for Solo Cello--Matt Haimovitz, cello;
2. Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet--Members of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe;
3. String Quartet no. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes"--Hagen Quartet;
4. Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet--Vienna Brass Soloists;
5. String Quartet No. 2--LaSalle Quartet

DISC 2
1. Atmosphères for large orchestra--Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado;*
2. Volumina for organ--Gerd Zacher, organ;
3. Lux aeterna for 16 voices--Choir of North German Radio Hamburg;
4. Organ Study no. 1 "Harmonies"--Gerd Zacher, organ;
5. Lontano for orchestra--Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado;*
6. Ramifications for strings--Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez;
7. Melodien for Orchestra--London Sinfonietta, David Atherton

DISC 3
1. Aventures--Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez; Nouvelles
2. Aventures--Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez;
3. Cello Concerto--Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello; Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez;
4. Chamber Concerto--Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez;
5. Mysteries of the Macabre--Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet;
6. Double Concerto for Flute and Oboe--Members of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe*

DISC 4
1. The Big Turtle Fanfare from the South China Sea--Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky, pianos;
2. Monument-Self-portrait-Movement--Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky, pianos;
3. Piano Study no. 2 "Cordes à vide"--Gianluca Cascioli, piano;
4. Piano Study no. 4 "Fanfares" Gianluca Cascioli, piano;
5. Piano Concerto--Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano;
6. Violin Concerto--Saschko Gawriloff, violin; Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez

thanks to Grasp Release

after you are done with Ligetti and Scelsi and Nono, you need to get into the Spectral composers... been doing my head in for about 6 months now. flabergasted.

after you are done with Ligetti and Scelsi and Nono, you need to get into the Spectral composers... been doing my head in for about 6 months now. flabergasted.

are those Gucci or Prada shades Gyorgy is rocking?

It's funny this topic came up because I've been listening to Organ Study no. 1 "Harmonies" everyday for the past month. I'm not sure why it is so relevant to me right now, but it is simply one of the most beautiful, frightening, otherworldly pieces of music I've ever heard. The sound blocks of chords sound similar to Penderecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima," but somehow the Ligeti piece manages to sound even more alien.

ligeti is amazing, and i didn't have this stuff, so thanks zhao.

ever heard tobias picker? or kabalevsky? always curious what's most "popular" w/r/t modern and contemporary composers. my teachers hated me because all i wanted to play was kabalevsky and khachaturian

Harmonies is great, and overlooked. I think Zacher's using a vacuum cleaner to blow air through the organ pipes on that recording, rather than the organ's own mechanism - that's why it sounds so weird.