I really hope these guys record more ligeti in particularly clocks and clouds, melodien and the cello concerto. Appassionato cadenza by ades winner of the warner prize, this is the first recording for violinist augustin hadelich as an exclusive warner classics artist. Ligetis concert romanesc or romanian concerto was completed in 1951 although it was not performed publically until 1971 due to the conservative confines of midcentury hungary. Like ligetis piano concerto of the late eighties, it is a largescale work in five movements which shows his fascination with nonwestern intonation. Among contemporary composers ligeti had the most fantastic.
A violinist and a viola player from the string section tune their instruments to an overtone of the double bass, making the violin a shade higher, the viola a bit lower than the rest of the ensemble and the solo violin. This was also the case at the 2014 badenbaden festival, where cellist sol gabetta made her philharmoniker debut in a performance of edward elgars virtuoso and elegiac cello concerto. Patricia kopatchinskaja made her debut with the berliner philharmoniker in september 2014 as soloist in peter eotvos. Patricia kopatchinskaja telecharger et ecouter les albums. The novelty on this disc is the flamboyant violin concerto, written for saschko gawriloff.
Gyorgy ligeti, a leading composer of the branch of avantgarde music concerned principally with shifting masses of sound and tone colours. For balance, ligeti recommends the strings to be 68 violin is, 68 violin iis, 46 violas, 46 cellos, and 34 double basses. Ligeti s works on this disc provide an excellent crosssection of the metamorphosis in his compositional technique over a period of 30 years. Ramifications, for string orchestra or 12 solo strings, composed in 196869. Lontano, violin concerto soloist benjamin schmid, atmospheres, san francisco. With the bern camerata of which she is the artistic director she blazes a bright trail of memory with her violin. On this new recording of the concertos by brahms and ligeti, the ligeti concerto includes new cadenzas written by thomas ades especially for augustin. Gyorgy ligeti violin concerto kopatchinskaja youtube. During the same period, ligeti was working on the solo concertos for piano and orchestra 198588 and violin and orchestra 199092.
A guide to gyorgy ligetis music music the guardian. Ligeti s colourful approach to composition and openly metaphorical comments pave the way for an analytical investigation which is more conducive to the music as it is heard. This concerto begins in silence, but not the voyeuristic silence typical of john cage. In ligetis cello concerto 1966, the usual concerto contrast between soloist and orchestra is minimized in music of mainly very long lines and slowly changing, very nontraditional textures. Concerto by gyorgy ligeti 19232006 study score sheet. Ligeti s concerto for violin and orchestra from 1992 is a relatively late work, but in many ways its the brother of meeys portrait. May 28, 1923 june 12, 2006 was a jewish hungarian composer born in romania who later became an austrian citizen. The fivemovement version of gyorgy ligeti s violin concerto now considered as definitive there was an earlier one in three movements was premiered in cologne in 1992 under the direction. Patricia kopatchinskaja has constructed a programme entitled time and eternity around the masterpiece which is concerto funebre by karlamadeus hartmann, written in 1939 as an act of resistance against the nazi regime.
I study the violin concerto by gyorgy ligeti in the context of this discussion arguably one of the most popular and accessible works of recent years. The violin concerto is a late and more conventional work that has become one of his most recorded and performed large ensemble piece. That applies first of all to the content of the work itself. The piece was initially received poorly by the sovietrun composers union and was not allowed to be published or performed. Gyorgy ligeti was born may 28, 1923, in transylvania, romania, and died in vienna on june 12, 2006. Piano concerto, an album by gyorgy ligeti, jeanguihen queyras, saschko gawriloff, pierrelaurent aimard, ensemble intercontemporain, pierre boulez on spotify. Piano and orchestra sheet music book by gyorgy ligeti 19232006. Violin concerto gyorgy ligeti classical music only. Ligeti received his initial musical training in the conservatory at kolozsvar cluj, transylvania, romania. Gyorgy sandor ligeti was a hungarianaustrian composer of contemporary classical music.
His education was interrupted in 1944 when, as a jew, he was forced to labor by the nazis. Gyorgy ligeti chamber concerto for instrumentalists. Other works include clocks and clouds 197273 for female chorus and orchestra, san francisco polyphony 197374 for orchestra. Ligeti concertos concerto for piano and orchestra, concerto. In just a decade, the violin concerto 1992 has established itself as a modern classic, combining ligeti s love of polyrhythmic interplay and varied tunings with a.
She last performed with the orchestra in february 2017 as soloist in gyorgy ligetis violin concerto conducted by sir simon rattle. It is thus representative of what the composer himself used to call the prehistoric ligeti, referring to the works he wrote before leaving hungary in 1956. Ligeti, the greatnephew of violinist leopold auer, studied and taught music in hungary until the hungarian revolution in 1956, when he fled to vienna. Among contemporary composers ligeti had the most fantastic ear for original sounds and an exceptional imagination. Afpgetty images ligetis principled resistance of systemforsystems sake whether boulezs version of serialism, cages chance, or xenakiss stochasticism.
Chamber concerto, for instrumentalists, composed in 196970. Peter eotvos was the conductor of the first performance of the second version of ligeti violin concerto, in 1992, with ensemble modern. Ligeti s violin concerto is one of the worlds most frequently played contemporary violin concertos. To quote an online description from the critic stephen johnson, the ligeti violin concerto is a kind of cornucopia of effects and techniques, a wild collage of atmospheres and colors. However, in the 1980s and 90s, after over a quarter century in repose, the piece reemerged and has since become a wellknown part of the. Patricia kopatchinakaja and peter eotvos have been working together for 4 years. The expression of grief is unmistakable, in the slow movement, for example, whose theme schumann would take up again in his very last composition, the ghost variations for piano. Late night concert with berio and ligeti digital concert. In the violin concerto ligeti employs instruments with variable intonation. Gyorgy ligeti viola sonata 199194 scorevideo youtube. New to youtube nigel kennedy beethoven violin concerto. The music of gyorgy ligeti and his violin concerto.
Kirill petrenko and patricia kopatchinskaja digital concert hall. Download the butterfly lovers violin concerto high definition audio. I find the recording of the violin concerto from the ligeti project series to be a superior interpretation. The score calls for pairs of flute, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons. In particular, it might sound like a small thing, but the ocarina choir plays a significant role in the piece, especially in the second movement, and the performers in this recording just arent up to snuff. Bach double violin concerto yehudi menuhin and david oistrakh. New fairfield, connecticut april 27, 2020 were coming to you from new fairfield, connecticut this week with curtis institute of music violin professor ida kavafian ida using her time at home with her quarantine buddies, husband steven tenenbom and 3 dogs tonibaloney, sara jean and popcorn, to teach her studio remotely, cook a little more and to hike the woods. Robert schumanns only violin concerto is a problem child of the classical repertoire in several respects. The concerto is scored for solo piano and an orchestra consisting of flute doubling piccolo, oboe, clarinet doubling alto ocarina, bassoon, horn, trumpet, tenor trombone, percussion, and strings. Composer orchestral works composer violin concerto works top orchestral works.
Adagio ben goldscheider horn clarajumi kang violin sunwook kim piano please visit our. The best seat in the house is reserved just for you. Apr 14, 2018 get youtube premium get youtube tv best of youtube. Augustin hadelich violin, norwegian radio orchestra, miguel harthbedoya. The engineers suddenly open the aperture and youre dropped ears first into a masterfully balanced, orchestrated silence out of which a single high cello note. He has been described as one of the most important avantgarde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century and one of the most innovative and influential among. Composer gyorgy ligeti was born on this day in 1923 onthisday. The first version of the concerto consisted of three movements. Between bartok, ligeti, eotvos and kopatchinskaja, there are many links. Watch the video for atmospheres from gyorgy ligetis ligeti.
The violin concerto incorporates influences from medieval and renaissance music, from late romantic music and. Violin concerto gyorgy ligeti concerts, introduction. In 1993, ligeti completed his violin concerto after four years of work. Feb 11, 2017 gyorgy ligetis violin concerto irritates the conventional sensation of hearing in multiple ways. All of these new interests from the 1970s and 1980spastiche, intonation, polyrhythms, concepts from nonwestern musicfind a voice in the violin concerto, a kind of resume of ligetis late period music. Recorded live in november 2009 at the grande auditorio of the calouste gulbenkian foundation in lisbon, portugal. The violin concerto, though, belongs with the songcycle among ligeti s later works, and again microintervals are a vital part of the sound. The concerto for violin and orchestra by gyorgy ligeti is a violin concerto written for and dedicated to the violinist saschko gawriloff. I really enjoyed this recording and strongly recommend it after getting the ligeti porject vol. Bach and considered among the best examples of the work of the late baroque period. Atmospheres is a piece for full orchestra, composed by gyorgy ligeti in 1961. In dreams from lotr 1 the fellowship of the ring, violin and viola with karaoke. He also has one violin in the orchestra tune higher and one viola tune lower than the other instruments.
The easter festival has always been an occasion for the berliner philharmoniker to work with young, aspiring soloists for the first time. The composer was inspired to write a viola sonata after hearing tabea zimmermann playing on the radio, then began writing various movements. Violin concerto in e major, bwv 1042 eugene ormandy by davidhertzberg. Schoenberg once jokingly remarked about his violin concerto that the music was intended for a new kind of violinist with 6 fingers. Romanianborn austrian contemporary composer gorgy ligeti was born on this day in 1923 95 years ago. This edition with solo part and piano score makes it easier to study the work and can be used for performance of all or individual movements at conserva. Andantino con tenerezza vivacissimo molto ritmico alla marcia lamento. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on youtube. Here, ligetis two lateperiod concertos piano and violin bookend his 1966 cello concerto. Completed in 1993 and scored for soloist and a chamber orchestra of two dozen musicians, its seeds go back to the. Cello concerto, for siegfried palm 1966 chamber concerto, for instrumentalists 196970 double concerto, for flute, oboe and orchestra 1972 piano concerto 198588 violin concerto 198993 hamburg concerto, for horn and chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns 199899, revised 2002 works for chamber orchestra. Violinist augustin hadelich performs thomas adess cadenza for ligeti s violin concerto with the boston symphony orchestra, january 25, 2018. Nov 22, 2012 t he violin concertos by bartok and ligeti are two of the greatest of the 20th century, and in this twodisc set they frame another hungarian concerto, peter eotvoss seven, which he composed. Ligeti grew up in the hungarianspeaking part of transylvania, and soon came across both the folk music and its corresponding instruments, such as the alpine horn, violin and bagpipes.
1305 207 447 65 835 1328 802 1282 89 1198 1556 156 1470 654 18 1107 25 762 333 725 637 524 1007 1290 1628 1384 1189 663 128 566 457 121 275