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Ligeti : Project Vol.1 - Melodien, Chamber Concerto, Piano Concerto & Mysteries Of The Macabre

György Ligeti | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (23 April 2001)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: CLASSICAL
  • ASIN: B000059QW8
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 144,584 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Melodien13:02£0.89
Listen  2. Chamber Concerto : I Corrente 5:48£0.69
Listen  3. Chamber Concerto : II Calmo, sostenuto 6:18£0.69
Listen  4. Chamber Concerto : III Movimento preciso e meccanico 3:35£0.69
Listen  5. Chamber Concerto : IV Presto 3:32£0.69
Listen  6. Piano Concerto : I Vivace molto ritmico e preciso 4:05£0.69
Listen  7. Piano Concerto : II Lento e deserto 6:44£0.69
Listen  8. Piano Concerto : III Vivace cantabile 4:12£0.69
Listen  9. Piano Concerto : IV Allegro risoluto, molto ritmico 4:50£0.69
Listen10. Piano Concerto : V Presto luminoso 3:34£0.69
Listen11. Mysteries of the Macabre 7:57£0.69

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Reinbert de Leeuw conducts four works by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti on this disc. The opener, Melodien, bubbles magically into earshot like the start of a dream. Wispy abstract figures float through the score with visionary logic. Two unisons at either end support the thin fabric like tent-poles. The four-movement Chamber Concerto for 13 instruments emerges from the mist. Sul ponticello strings flash like loose metal in a tin tank. The Movimento preciso e meccanico chugs amusingly like a rusty conveyor belt. The instruments, muted and staccato, play pulsing games with the stereo speakers. The Piano Concerto is real madhouse music. Pierre-Laurent Aimard holds no prominent piano part but is rather the integrated spokesman of a cackling, surrounding orchestra. Melodic motifs dominate the background like repeated heckles, and what sound like welt-inducing lash strokes stimulate the Allegro risoluto. The self-assured ramblings in the Presto luminoso challenge the listener to extract sense from it. Finally, Mysteries of the Macabre for Peter Masseurs' clean, solo trumpet and orchestra is a wacky excursion into the world of Ligeti's 30-year-old opera Le Grand Macabre. Humour is the appropriate device to dispel the seriousness of contemporary ideas. The ear is not even supposed to take this calculated chaos at face value. It is a step towards enlightenment. --Rick Jones

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Ligeti at his best 17 Aug 2001
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Ligeti's brilliant ear for wit is brought out superbly in this collection of pieces for chamber ensemble. The manic Piano Concerto grabs the listener's ear with its irregular rhythms, comic combinations of intruments (e.g. double-bass, piccolo and slide-whistle) and sheer virtuosity of ensemble playing (Pierre-Laurent Aimard is the stupefyingly good soloist). The Chamber Concerto makes for compelling listening, too, not only for its virtuosity, but also for its extraordinary sonorities gained from close-clustered harmony and variety of playing techniques. 'Melodien' creates that unforgettably Ligetian sound-world that appeared in 'Atmospheres' in a slightly different form a few years earlier. The programme ends with an arrangement of arias (now for trumpet) from the composer's absurdist opera 'Le Grand Macabre'; the listener is confronted with yet more strange and exciting sounds, and the track concludes to the tune of yelps and screams emanating both from the trumpet and the mouths of the excellent Asko Ensemble... This CD is one of my firm favourites.
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I start this review with considerable disadvantage as I have no musical education whatsoever. I have been an afficionado of Ligeti's music since visiting the movie theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1968, as a teenager, and experiencing 2001: A Space Odyssey on an enormous screen. The following day I bought the soundtrack and ever since I have loved his music.

You sort of know that you are in trouble when you read the composer's notes which accompany the CD and you feel that you know less than you did before you started reading.

This does not detract from the music however. Of all of the modern day composers, Ligeti above all has the ability to create ethereal structures out of sound with regular instruments. His compositions are haunting and assume a life of their own.

In this collection, a welcome addition to the current library of recorded works available to the public, the four pieces which the composer has selected originated at various times in his career from the early 1970s through to the mid 1980s. While I would not attempt to classify Ligeti as a member of the minimalist school as his work often defies categorisation, he certainly has been influenced by it and in some ways there are some similarities with Terry Riley's early compositions. Ligeti though, unlike many others is open about his influences and his concern with rhythm he notes is assisted with his listening to world music.

Whatever his influences Ligeti creates soundscapes as no other. His work is always a cerebral delight and allows the imagination to flow freely. Listening to this album, and others by this modest genius, one is reminded of science fiction movies where the film makers are able to profuce special effects of lights and ethereal images. Ligeti's music inspires such visions and the listener can experience an almost trancendental experience. This is music for the mind and for the soul because so often it is akin to a spiritual experience.

Wonderful and inspirational.

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This cd is well worth getting for the chilling and imaginative performance of Chamber Concerto, one of Ligeti's most powerfully evocative works played far better than any other ensemble.

Piano concerto is played brilliantly by Aimard, better than his DG recording. Musical language of the work is very similar to Ligeti's Etudes, very complex and exciting if not so compelling as Chamber Concerto.
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