classical music: Gyorgy Ligeti ...     classical music:       Instruments of the Orchestra7 reviews Various Artists Naxos, 2002 Very Informative and Enjoyable Whether you're a music novice or pro, "The instruments of the Orchestra" is a very worthwhile purchase. The 7 CDs, with a total of 8 hours, are expertly narrated by Jeremy Siepmann. He's a great speaker, very much like the late Leonard Bernstein was. Mr. Siepmann takes you on an unforgetable musical journey covering the origins and use of the various orchestral instruments throughout musical ...             Masters of Classical Music (Box Set)26 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, ... Delta, 1990 VALUE VALUE VALUE I think that this is really one of the best values you're going to find anywhere in the world of classical music, especially for beginners. You're getting 10 CDs, each filled almost to capacity, with the most famous works from the most famous composers in the history of classical music. The sound quality is excellent on every disc. While I would have made some replacements on the list of who ...             Ligeti: Mechanical Music11 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre Charial, ... Sony, 1997 share Ligeti's fascination with mechanical things. First off, I should inform you that Sony's Ligeti Edition series is being deleted so if you're interested in this stuff, you should pick up the ones you want as soon as you can. Ligeti Edition 5 is a good one. No, it's AWESOME. If you have any interest in "mechanical music," this should be essential. Poeme Symphonique for 100 Metronomes was the main thing I wanted to hear on this collection. The ...             György Ligeti Edition 6: Keyboard Works (Piano, Harpsichord, Organ) - Irina Kataeva / Pierre-Laurent Aimard / ...7 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Elisabeth Chojnacka, ... Sony, 1997 Ligeti's most important keyboard music This disk picks up most of the keyboard works that were not covered in LE3. Highlights here are Continuum, the pipe organ works, and the Three Pieces for Two Pianos. Three Pieces was written toward the end of Ligeti's second style period. It continues in the vein of Ligeti's "metronome" works such as the not entirely serious Poème Symphonique and the very serious and astonishing third movement ...             György Ligeti Edition 2: A Cappella Choral Works - London Sinfonietta Voices9 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Terry Edwards Sony, 1997 a handful of great Ligeti works. As a compilation, musically speaking, Edition 2 is probably my least favorite of the Sony Ligeti Edition collection. Many of the pieces come from traditional Hungarian sources, conceived while Ligeti was still in his early years. They are pretty, but also pretty straightforward and conventional, and other than their simple pleasantness and occasionally yummy dissonances, they aren't really ...             Fantasie_Fantasme Johann Sebastian Bach, Jonathan Keren, ... Naive, 2007             György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) - Pierre-Laurent Aimard23 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre-Laurent Aimard Sony, 1997 jazzman I have probably played this cd 20 times since first getting it a few weeks ago. I was first introduced to Ligeti's music a long time ago when I saw Stanley Kubrick's brilliant film "2001: A Space Odyssey" when it first came out in the theater's in the late 60's. Ligeti's music, of course, played a prominent role in that film, and was also used in Kubrick's "The Shining" and the god-awful ...             The Ligeti Project II: Lontano / Atmosphères / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony / Concert Românesc - ...14 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Jonathon Nott, ... Teldec, 2002 One of the best CDs of contemporary music. There're not many CDs like this available on the stores. It's the clear example of perfect CD in its repertoire. A wonderful composer, perfect performances and excellent recordings, together with a very good booklet and presentation. Some of the works are among the best of Ligeti, in my opinion. The Concert Romanesc (1951), is in clear debt with Bartók language. We have to remember Ligeti is ...             György Ligeti Edition 1: String Quartets and Duets - Arditti String Quartet18 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, David Alberman, ... Sony, 1997 Definitive recordings of Ligeti's string quartets Sony's Ligeti Edition kicks off with a disk devoted to the string quartets. It's a good place to start. Like Ives, Ligeti wrote only two string quartets: an early one in a largely derivative style and a later one that epitomizes the composer's unique mature style. Also like Ives, Ligeti's two quartets, especially No. 2, are good enough to position him among the 20th Century most important ...             The Ligeti Project6 reviews Various Warner Classics, 2008 Highly recommended box-set 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 ...             Béla Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins2 reviews Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti, ... Ecm Records, 2002 Unsurpassed This is the recording to get. I've heard all the others (Vegh, Pauk, et al.) and none match Keller & Pilz for luscious tone and idiomatic phrasing. They make these pieces sound the way they were meant to: like vibrant folk tunes played with flawless technique, not like some dry student exercises. Plus, it's beautifully recorded.             György Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy4 reviews William Pearson, Matthew Wilkie, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2006 A Fine and Affordable Library of the Works of György Ligeti György Ligeti died in 2006 after a long and productive life as a composer who challenged the creativity of even his most avant-garde colleagues. Teldec produced a magnificent series of CDs, The Ligeti Project, which contain some of the most thrilling performances of the composer's well-known works as well as much of the esoterica: it is big, it is expensive in toto. This 4-disc album, while ...             Voices 1900/2000: A Choral Journey through the 20th Century4 reviews Henk Badings, Samuel Barber, ... Delos Records, 2001 "Come with me, under my coat" "And we will drink our fill..." These are the first two strophes of Samuel Barber's "The Coolin," one of the three songs in his choral song cycle "Reincarnations." A friend recommended that I listen to this song, someone who had fond memories of singing it but who had yet to hear a satisfactory recording of the work. Given the enthusiasm, even exuberence, that she displayed regarding the ...             György Ligeti Edition 4: Vocal Works (Madrigals, Mysteries, Aventures, Songs) - The King's Singers / ...10 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, ... Sony, 1997 Picks up where Ligeti Edition 2 leaves off Following onto LE2, which has most of the a cappella vocal music, this CD offers the Nonsense Madrigals, and several works for voice and accompaniment (ranging from piano up to chamber orchestra). To get the works for voice and full orchestra, such as the Requiem, you're directed to Teldec's Ligeti Project or the older recordings on Wergo or Deutsche Grammophon. Ligeti's only opera is on LE8. And ...             The Devil's Music Leopold Stokowski, Harald Saeverud, ... Naxos, 2009             Ligeti: Requiem Aventures Nouvelles Aventures4 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Michael Gielen, ... Wergo Germany, 1992 Essential recording of a XXth century masterpiece. Ligeti's Requiem is one of the few works produced by the XXth century "avant-garde" that can actually be enjoyed by a regular concert audience. Without being a "pop" tuneful work this music is one of the most beatiful I've ever heard and that is due to the amazing palette of atmospheres and moods it displays: fear, anger, spirituality,contemplation,etc. This version by Gielen is finely recorded ...             The Ligeti Project IV: Hamburg Concerto (Horn Concerto) / Double Concerto / Ramifications / Requiem7 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, Reinbert de Leeuw, ... Teldec, 2003 A superb meeting of Ligeti's recent and classic works The fourth disc of Warner Classics' fresh and exciting Ligeti Project contains the composer's recent "Hamburg Concerto" as well as two other works performed by the Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble. If you're new to Ligeti, this is worth getting because it contains his "Requiem", one of his most famous and also most accessible works, in a new performance by the Berliner Philharmonik. In the "Hamburg ...             Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 22 reviews Gyorgy Ligeti, -- Naxos, 2009 Sensational Performances The big news here is the performances of the Parker Quartet, a group of young musicians who came out of the New England Conservatory. The members are Daniel Chong and Karen Kim, violins, Jessica Bodner, viola and Kee-Hyun Kim, cello. In this recording of the Ligeti string quartets they are up against some of the most admired quartets around -- e.g., the Arditti and the Hagen Quartets -- and they ...             The 20th-Century Cello5 reviews Matt Haimovitz, Benjamin Britten, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 Great playing, great listening This set has wonderful qualities on quite a few levels. What you have here are clear modern renditions of pieces by some of the best known composing names of the last century, recorded in modern sound by one of my personal favorite cellists around today. Haimovitz always brings a very clearheaded yet informed approach to his readings (Not to mention daring- I highly recommend his readings of ...             Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Carnegie Hall6 reviews Alban Berg, Ludwig van Beethoven, ... Teldec, 2002 Few recitals are so spirited and exciting! This is an absolutely spectacular disc with revelatory playing. It is often said that today's pianists aren't very interesting compared to artists of the past, but Pierre-Laurent Aimard proves exactly the opposite here. His recital at Carnegie Hall in December 2001 was a great event and it has fortunately been captured on disc. Throughout the whole disc you can feel the thrill that hangs over the ...              search for classical music 20th-century, apparitions, atmosphères, aventures, cappella, chojnacka, classical, elisabeth, esa-pekka, fantasie, fantasme, francisco, harpsichord, instruments, jonathan, madrigals, mechanical, mysteries, nouvelles, orchestra, philharmonia, philharmonic, pierre-laurent, polyphony, quartets, ramifications, ricercata, românesc, sinfonietta, szathmáry classical music:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen tools & hardware: 4-1025 4X5 FLIP FRONT HELMET - K-T INDUSTRIES, INC. home  impressum - about us