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The Ligeti Project | 
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| Creators: Omar Ebrahim, David Geringas, Gyorgy Ligeti, Jonathan Nott, Asko Ensemble, Schoenberg Ensemble, Jacques Zoon, Marie-luise Neunecker, Ozan Cakar, Simon Breyer, Sybille Mahni, Thomas Bernstein, Katalin Karolyi, Linda Hirst, Margriet Van Reisen, Heinz Holliger, Berliner Philharmoniker, Pierre-laurent Aimard, Caroline Stein, Sarah Leonard
Label: Warner Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $34.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 21230
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5.1 x 0.9
MPN: 510998
UPC: 825646967353
EAN: 0825646967353
ASIN: B0016A8E1K
Release Date: May 20, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | 1. Corrente (Fliessend) | | • | 2. Calmo, sostenuto | | • | 3. Movimento preciso e meccanico | | • | 4. Presto | | • | 1. Vivace molto ritmico e preciso | | • | 2. Lento e deserto | | • | 3. Vivace cantabile | | • | 4. Allegro risoluto, molto ritmico | | • | 5. Presto luminoso |
Disc 2
| • | 1. Lento | | • | 2. Agitato | | • | 1. Andantino | | • | 2. Allegro vivace | | • | 3. Adagio ma non troppo | | • | 4. Molto vivace |
Disc 3
| • | 1st Movement | | • | 2nd Movement | | • | 1. Vivacissimo luminoso | | • | 2. Aria, Hoquetus, Choral. Andante con moto | | • | 3. Intermezzo. Presto fluido | | • | 4. Passacglia. Lento intenso | | • | 5. Appassionato. Agitato molto | | • | 1. Fabula | | • | 2. Tancdal | | • | 3. Kinai templom | | • | 4. Kuli | | • | 5. Alma alma | | • | 6. Keseredes | | • | 7. Szajko |
Disc 4
| • | 1. Praeludium | | • | 2. Signale, Tanz, Choral | | • | 3. Aria, Aksak, Hoketus | | • | 4. Solo, Intermezzo, Mixtur, Kanon | | • | 5. Spectra | | • | 6. Capriccio | | • | 7. Hymnus | | • | 1. Calmo, con tenerezza | | • | 2. Allegro corrente | | • | 1. Introitus. Sostenuto | | • | 2. Kyrie. Molto espressivo | | • | 3. De die judicii sequentia. Subito. Agitato molto | | • | 4. Lacrimosa. Molto lento |
Disc 5
| • | Nouvelles Aventures I | | • | Nouvelles Aventures II | | • | 1. Sostenuto | | • | 2. Allegro con spirito | | • | 3. Tempo di Valse (poco vivace - a l'orgue d Barbarie) | | • | 4. Con moto, giusto - Cantabile, molto legato | | • | 5. Vivace. Energico | | • | 6. (Bela Bartok in memoriam) Adagio. Mesto - Allegretto maestoso | | • | 7. Vivace. Capriccioso | | • | 8. (Omaggio a Girolam Rescobaldi) Andante misurato e tranquillo | | • | 1. Dialogo. Adagio, rubato, cantabile | | • | 2. Capriccio. Presto con slancio | | • | Andantino | | • | Allegro vivace, energisch |
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Product Description
This 5 CD set features works that enchant both the ear and mind. The box features favorites such as Lontano.
Its refined tonal colors make it one of the most elegant pieces in the modernist canon. The Berlin Philharmonic
performs Apparitions, Ligeti s first success in the West after his escape from Hungary during the 1956 Soviet
invasion. Under its colorful facade, San Francisco Polyphony demonstrates how uncompromising modern music
can be. Concert romanesc, harks back to Bartok s transformations of folk material. Rich in color and vitality, its
four movements are full of the dissonances of village bands and melodies rooted in Romanian folk music.
Gyoergy Sandor Ligeti (1923-2006) was born in Romania to a Hungarian Jewish family and lived in Hungary
before later becoming an Austrian citizen. Many of his works are well known in classical music circles, but to
the general public, he is best known for the various pieces featured in the Stanley Kubrick films 2001: A Spac e
Odyssey, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut.
Works in the set include:
Melodien
Chamber Concerto
Piano Concerto (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)
*Mysteries of the Macabre (Peter Masseurs)
Lontano
Atmostpheres
*Asparitions
San Francisco Sykmphony
Cello Concerto
*Clocks and Clouds
Violin Concerto
*Sippal, dobbal, nadihegeduvel
*Concert romanesc
Hamburg Concerto
Double Concerto
Ramifications
Requiem
*Adventures, Nouvelles Adventures
Artikulation for Tape
Eight Pieces from Musica ricercata
Sonata for Cello Solo (David Geringas)
Big Turtle Fanfare for the South China Sea
Balada si joc
Regi Magyar tarsas tancok.
*Original world premiere recording
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| Customer Reviews:
Highly recommended box-set August 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This box should probably be your first choice if you want to get acquainted with the works of Ligeti. The recordings in this box are overseen by Ligeti himself, and they were supposed to be definitive recordings that after his death could show conductors how his music was supposed to be played. As detailed in Richard Steinitz' Ligeti biography, it took two record companies to bring us the complete authoritative works of Ligeti on CD. Sony started a series of cd's called "The Ligeti Edition", but they had to concentrate on the smaller works for solo instruments and chamber ensembles - they simply weren't able to produce the biggest works for choir and orchestra to the composers satisfaction. The project was aborted after 7 cd's, and later continued by Teldec. This box contains all Teldec's 5 cd's of the recordings of the really big works. And as I started out saying, it's recommended as the first Ligeti item to buy.
Together For Less August 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The skinny: Some of us paid significant sums of money to get these CDs when they were individually wrapped. You can get them now for much less, and in one convenient package. What you won't get are the equally fine 7 CDs that Sony produced under a similar concept (Ligeti, one CD at a time) before they abandoned their work, nor will you get the opera Le Grand Macabre (still available here and there on the Wergo label).
Not to worry, the present 5-CD set is chock full of remarkable music (a great amount available nowhere else, or in not-as-fine performances). Ligeti was a true original. When he moved from one kind of music to another, he adapted his vocabulary to suit the circumstances, and that means almost always that you're in for a big surprise. It's novelty, sure, but novelty with a purpose: Not just to play the enfant terrible, the naughty boy, but with tangible goals of making valid musical statements. Many other Eastern European avant-gardists could only wish they were half as talented in that regard. This is music that opens your eyes. Wide.
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