Listeners looking for a good pick to start getting acquainted with the music of Hungarian composer György Ligeti can look no further than this Finnish release. The forces involved, with Austrian violinist Benjamin Schmid and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, encompass both Ligeti's own Central European origins and the profound effect his works have had on the contemporary Finnish school; one would expect them all to do well with this technically difficult stuff, and they do. And the selection of works is ideal. There's ...
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Listeners looking for a good pick to start getting acquainted with the music of Hungarian composer György Ligeti can look no further than this Finnish release. The forces involved, with Austrian violinist Benjamin Schmid and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, encompass both Ligeti's own Central European origins and the profound effect his works have had on the contemporary Finnish school; one would expect them all to do well with this technically difficult stuff, and they do. And the selection of works is ideal. There's Ligeti's one really big orchestral hit, Atmosphères, which appeared in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The logical place to go after that is Lontano (1967), which reflects the composer's tendency to begin with a simple sonority such as a unison and develop a unique tonal world step by step (the beauty of Ligeti is he can't easily be classified as tonal or atonal). There's a major underrated work, the Violin Concerto (presented in its 1993 five-movement form), a technical tour de...
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Add this copy of Violin Concerto & Orchestral Works to cart. $19.69, new condition, Sold by Importcds rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sunrise, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Ondine.
Add this copy of Ligeti: Violin Concerto & Orchestral Works to cart. $26.56, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Ondine.
Add this copy of Ligeti: Violin Concerto | Lontano [Benjamin Schmid, to cart. $31.96, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2013 by ONDINE.
