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The unifying idea of the concerto provides a way to get a handle on György Ligeti's experimental spirit, for a concerto here represents several fundamentally different things. The Cello Concerto of 1966, right at the height of Ligeti's exuberantly fearless adventures in 1960s Germany, might almost be called an anti-concerto, with the cello doing its best to hang on the edge of silence. Sample the very first movement, both for the precision of cellist Christian Poltéra's work at the low end of the dynamic spectrum and for the ideally clean engineering work by the BIS label, operating in a variety of Norwegian venues and mastering them, well, masterfully. The Chamber Concerto for 13 Instruments and the Melodien are essentially concertos for orchestra, with distinctive roles for each of the instruments, while the five-movement Piano Concerto, completed in 1988, is a fine and technically demanding example of Ligeti's later pulse-based, polyrhythmic style. Throughout, Norway's BIT20 Ensemble, a group of flexible size, delivers superb Ligeti performances, with the requisite laser-like focus on individual details but not losing a certain liveliness and humor that underlie it all. A superior Ligeti album.
© TiVo
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Cello Concerto (György Ligeti)
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Christian Poltera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Christian Poltera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Chamber Concerto (György Ligeti)
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Piano Concerto (György Ligeti)
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - Joonas Ahonen, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - Joonas Ahonen, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - Joonas Ahonen, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - Joonas Ahonen, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Baldur Brönnimann, Conductor, MainArtist - Joonas Ahonen, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - BIT20 Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist
2017 BIS 2017 (P) BIS
Album review
The unifying idea of the concerto provides a way to get a handle on György Ligeti's experimental spirit, for a concerto here represents several fundamentally different things. The Cello Concerto of 1966, right at the height of Ligeti's exuberantly fearless adventures in 1960s Germany, might almost be called an anti-concerto, with the cello doing its best to hang on the edge of silence. Sample the very first movement, both for the precision of cellist Christian Poltéra's work at the low end of the dynamic spectrum and for the ideally clean engineering work by the BIS label, operating in a variety of Norwegian venues and mastering them, well, masterfully. The Chamber Concerto for 13 Instruments and the Melodien are essentially concertos for orchestra, with distinctive roles for each of the instruments, while the five-movement Piano Concerto, completed in 1988, is a fine and technically demanding example of Ligeti's later pulse-based, polyrhythmic style. Throughout, Norway's BIT20 Ensemble, a group of flexible size, delivers superb Ligeti performances, with the requisite laser-like focus on individual details but not losing a certain liveliness and humor that underlie it all. A superior Ligeti album.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:11:27
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Joonas Ahonen Christian Poltéra BIT20 Ensemble Baldur Brönnimann
- Composer: György Ligeti
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Classical
2017 BIS 2017 BIS
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