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Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre

~ Richard Suart (Baritone), Frode Olsen (Bass), Gyorgy Ligeti (Composer), Esa-Pekka Salonen (Conductor), Derek Lee Ragin (Counter Tenor), et al.

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Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Composer: Gyorgy Ligeti
Audio CD (1 Mar 1999)
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Sony
ASIN: B00000ICMU

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 60,804 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Le Grand Macabre: Car Horn Prelude
2. Le Grand Macabre: Scene One - 'Dies irae'
3. Le Grand Macabre: Scene One - 'Away, You Swagpot!'
4. Le Grand Macabre: Scene One - 'Shut Up!'
5. Le Grand Macabre: Scene One - 'Oh...!' - 'Amanda! Can Do No More!'
6. Le Grand Macabre: Scene 1 - 'Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha! Hey! Give Me My Requisites'
7. Le Grand Macabre: Scene 1 - 'Melting Snow Is Thy Breast'
8. Le Grand Macabre: Second Car Horn Prelude
9. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Two - 'One! Two! Three! Five!'
10. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Two - 'Shapely And Attractive Figure'
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Disc: 2
1. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Three - Doorbell Prelude
2. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Three - 'Arse-Licker, Arse Kisser'
3. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Three - 'Posture Exercises!'
4. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Three - 'Tsk...' - 'Psssst!' - 'Ha! Head Of My Secret Service!'
5. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Three - 'Ahh!...Secret Cypher!'
6. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Three - 'Hurray, Hurray, My Wife Is Dead' (Astradamors) (Prince Go-Go) (Chorus)
7. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Three - Nekrotzar's Entrance
8. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Three - 'Woe! Ohh!' - 'For The Day Of Wrath'
9. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Three - 'There's No Need To Fear'
10. Le Grand Macabre: Scene Three - 'Up!' - 'Drink!' - 'Up!'
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On this CD:

(Le) Grand Macabre
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
Performed by London Sinfonietta Voices
with Sibylle Ehlert, Sibylle Ehlert, Laura Claycomb, Charlotte Hellekant, Derek Lee Ragin, Jard van Nes, Graham Clark, Willard White, Frode Olsen, Martin Winkler, Marc Campbell-Griffiths, Michael Lessiter, Steven Cole, Richard Suart
Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

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4.0 out of 5 stars A rich and satisfying feast of wonderful sounds, textures and rhythms., 7 Dec 2008

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This is certainly an uncompromisingly avant garde contemporary piece but it's not difficult to enjoy on the level of sound alone because Ligeti simply never lets the invention flag. The listener remains fascinated and engaged even if they are completely baffled about what it all means. Presumably it's all meant to be happening in our subconscious.
It's even beautiful at times where the female voices create areas of stasis after some of the most astounding eruptions that have ever been heard in musical drama.
It's also a fine recording which will enable you to enjoy a really good hi-fi in ways you probably never dreamed of, and equally a tonic for the listener which I imagine to be something like what falling down and speaking in tongues might be for some people.
It's in English although it doesn't say so anywhere on the box or in the booklet even though Ligeti discusses other language versions and translations at length referring to this version as the solution.

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