An interview with composer and conductor George Benjamin on his forthcoming performance with the Philharmonia Orchestra and studying composition in Paris with Olivier Messiaen. [ More Detail ]
Lukas Ligeti performing "Great Circle's Tune II" live on September 29, 2008 at Dohnanyi Recital Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.Lukas Ligeti: "I'll be playing solo on an instrument called marimba lumina. It's a kind of electronic marimba, a very sophisticated midi controller, built by Don Buchla from California, and you can get information on it at www.buchla.com. The sounds I play come mostly from my laptop - samples for the most part, recorded during my travels, often in Africa. The music is part composed / part improvised, and made to be played live on electronic percussion."Lukas Ligeti is signed to John Zorn's Tzadik Records. He is the son of noted Romanian composer Gyorgy Ligeti whose works were featured in several films by Stanley Kubrick, such as "2001: A Space Odyssey," "The Shining," and "Eyes Wide Shut." [ More Detail ]
Lukas Ligeti performing "Great Circle's Tune I" live on September 29, 2008 at Dohnanyi Recital Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.Lukas Ligeti: "I'll be playing solo on an instrument called marimba lumina. It's a kind of electronic marimba, a very sophisticated midi controller, built by Don Buchla from California, and you can get information on it at www.buchla.com. The sounds I play come mostly from my laptop - samples for the most part, recorded during my travels, often in Africa. The music is part composed / part improvised, and made to be played live on electronic percussion."Lukas Ligeti is signed to John Zorn's Tzadik Records. He is the son of noted Romanian composer Gyorgy Ligeti whose works were featured in several films by Stanley Kubrick, such as "2001: A Space Odyssey," "The Shining," and "Eyes Wide Shut." [ More Detail ]
Continuum for Harpsichord composed by Gyorgy Ligeti(1923-2006) an hungarian composer, one of the most important experimental composers of the XX century.The image is from an alluminium "sculpture" by Yaacov Agam(1928-) placed in Tampa USA.Elisabeth Cojnacka in the harpsichord. [ More Detail ]
The sixth and final movement of the Sonata for solo viola, by the great Hungarian composer, Gyorgy Ligeti.Performed live at the Festival Jusqu'aux oreilles, August 2/2008.For more information on the artist, go to www.myspace.com/pemipaull [ More Detail ]
The fourth and fifth movements of the Sonata for solo viola by the great Hungarian composer, Gyorgy Ligeti.Performed at the Festival Jusqu'aux oreilles, in Montreal on August 2/08.for more information on the artist, please go to www.myspace.com/pemipaull [ More Detail ]
The third movement of the Sonata for solo viola by the great Hungarian composer, Gyorgy Ligeti.Performed live at the Festival Jusqu'aux oreilles, August 2/2008.For more information on the artist, go to www.myspace.com/pemipaull [ More Detail ]
The second movement of the Sonata for solo viola, by the great Hungarian composer, Gyorgy Ligeti.Performed at the Festival Jusqu'aux oreilles, in Montreal on August 2/08.for more information on the artist, please go to www.myspace.com/pemipaull [ More Detail ]
The first movement of the Sonata for solo viola by the great Hungarian composer, Gyorgy Ligeti.Performed at the Festival Jusqu'aux oreilles, in Montreal on August 2/08.for more information on the artist, please go to www.myspace.com/pemipaull [ More Detail ]
I thought I would listen to something I never heard of before and found this on wikipedia as a composer who makes abstract music and someone who had in youtube added a visual film or his music called Ligeti-Artikulation [ More Detail ]
Calmo, con tenerezza. Composition of 1972. A very 'spacy' and atmospheric rendering of a very 'spacy' and atmospheric music. The composer Adrian Jack once mentioned the "Sibelian sense of menace" in the opening mouvement. "Thus blown up, she floats over yonder" (Wilhelm Furtwängler)Aurèle Nicolet, fluteHeinz Holliger, oboeLondon Sinfonietta, David Atherton conductor. Recorded 1975. [ More Detail ]
The second string quartet was written in 2004 for my father's 70th birthday. The work is composed of five parts. The first four are different from each other in atmosphere, rhythm and structure, but they are bound to each other through the musical motives which repeat themselves in various variations in each part. The fifth part is a kind of a musical summing up of the first four parts. In this part are heard, sometimes simultaneously, motives from the previous parts. This composition is written according to a composition method that I invented, inspired by the mathematics of fractals. The fractal is a geometrical form which is similar to itself at any level of breakdown at which we observe it. In other words: No matter how we look at its parts, the fractal will always be like its original form. The fractal is a common natural form: the leaf veins, blood vessels in our body, coast line, snow flake - in all these we can go into the finest detail and still feel as if we look at the whole picture. For composing music likewise, I use a series of numbers that dictate different durations within the work, from the level of the single note's duration up to the length of a whole movement. In this work the number series is 4-5-3-5-4. Thus, for example, the first movement is composed of 4 parts, the second of 5, the third of 3, the fourth of 5 and the fifth of 4. Likewise, the opening phrase of the work is composed of 4 notes, the next of 5, then of 3 and so on. The piece is not easily performed, mainly because it demands extremely high concentration and accuracy of the players. Although it is written in the common time signature of 4/4, the internal rhythmic division is very complex. [ More Detail ]
The second string quartet was written in 2004 for my father's 70th birthday. The work is composed of five parts. The first four are different from each other in atmosphere, rhythm and structure, but they are bound to each other through the musical motives which repeat themselves in various variations in each part. The fifth part is a kind of a musical summing up of the first four parts. In this part are heard, sometimes simultaneously, motives from the previous parts. This composition is written according to a composition method that I invented, inspired by the mathematics of fractals. The fractal is a geometrical form which is similar to itself at any level of breakdown at which we observe it. In other words: No matter how we look at its parts, the fractal will always be like its original form. The fractal is a common natural form: the leaf veins, blood vessels in our body, coast line, snow flake - in all these we can go into the finest detail and still feel as if we look at the whole picture. For composing music likewise, I use a series of numbers that dictate different durations within the work, from the level of the single note's duration up to the length of a whole movement. In this work the number series is 4-5-3-5-4. Thus, for example, the first movement is composed of 4 parts, the second of 5, the third of 3, the fourth of 5 and the fifth of 4. Likewise, the opening phrase of the work is composed of 4 notes, the next of 5, then of 3 and so on. The piece is not easily performed, mainly because it demands extremely high concentration and accuracy of the players. Although it is written in the common time signature of 4/4, the internal rhythmic division is very complex. [ More Detail ]
György Sándor Ligeti (May 28, 1923 -- June 12, 2006) was a Romanian born 20th century composer. Born to a Hungarian-speaking Jewish family, he briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen. 1. Éjszaka (Night) 2. Reggel (Morning)Performed : London Sinfonietta Voices Dir : Terry Edwards [ More Detail ]
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Movt 4 Pt 2 Vidin State Phil/Michael RosenzweigPyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Parts 6 &7IV.Finale, Andante maestoso - Allegro vivaceVidin State Philharmonic/Michael RosenzweigUsed with permissionMichael Rosenzweig: Principal Guest Conductor Vidin State PhilharmonicComposer: highest award: Berliner DAAD Kunstlerprogramm Fellowship Other musicians to have received this award include Igor Strawinsky, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Krzystof Penderecki, Luigi Dallapiccola, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Luigi Nono, Arvo Pärt , John Cage, Iannis Xenakis and Alberto GinasteraIn Rosenzweig's year, Susan Sontag received the award for literary achievementLink to extracts of compositions: -http://www.stytunes.co.uk/mrosenzweig.zipVidin State PhilharmonicThe Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra, founded as a private institution in 1910, became State Orchestra on 28 April 1949. For decades it has now been a leading cultural institution in the city of Vidin and the Vidin region.Vidin is located in the northernmost part of north-western Bulgaria, right on the banks of the river Danube. Founded by the Romans and having been the most important trading place of the lower Danube in the medieval times, Vidin is of rich historical and cultural heritage and musical traditions.The Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra's range of activities covers a season of about 35 symphonic concerts and 9 educational concerts in Vidin and its region.As one of the most demanded tour orchestras of Bulgaria tours lead the orchestra to Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Suisse, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Serbia-Montenegro. Manager and Artistic Director of Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra is Miroslav Krastev. [ More Detail ]
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Movt 4 Pt 1 Vidin State Phil/Michael RosenzweigPyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Parts 6 &7IV.Finale, Andante maestoso - Allegro vivaceVidin State Philharmonic/Michael RosenzweigUsed with permissionMichael Rosenzweig: Principal Guest Conductor Vidin State PhilharmonicComposer: highest award: Berliner DAAD Kunstlerprogramm Fellowship Other musicians to have received this award include Igor Strawinsky, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Krzystof Penderecki, Luigi Dallapiccola, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Luigi Nono, Arvo Pärt , John Cage, Iannis Xenakis and Alberto GinasteraIn Rosenzweig's year, Susan Sontag received the award for literary achievementLink to extracts of compositions: -http://www.stytunes.co.uk/mrosenzweig.zipVidin State PhilharmonicThe Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra, founded as a private institution in 1910, became State Orchestra on 28 April 1949. For decades it has now been a leading cultural institution in the city of Vidin and the Vidin region.Vidin is located in the northernmost part of north-western Bulgaria, right on the banks of the river Danube. Founded by the Romans and having been the most important trading place of the lower Danube in the medieval times, Vidin is of rich historical and cultural heritage and musical traditions.The Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra's range of activities covers a season of about 35 symphonic concerts and 9 educational concerts in Vidin and its region.As one of the most demanded tour orchestras of Bulgaria tours lead the orchestra to Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Suisse, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Serbia-Montenegro. Manager and Artistic Director of Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra is Miroslav Krastev. [ More Detail ]
"Perpetuum Mobile" is a piece from "Játékok" [Games] series of piano exercises in 7 volumes composed between 1975 and 1993 by Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag (1926- ). Now is performed by the composer. [ More Detail ]
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Movt 1 Pt 2 Vidin State Phil/Michael RosenzweigPyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Parts 3 &4Movement 2Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenzaVidin State Philharmonic/Michael RosenzweigUsed with permissionMichael Rosenzweig: Principal Guest Conductor Vidin State PhilharmonicComposer: highest award: Berliner DAAD Kunstlerprogramm Fellowship Other musicians to have received this award include Igor Strawinsky, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Krzystof Penderecki, Luigi Dallapiccola, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Luigi Nono, Arvo Pärt , John Cage, Iannis Xenakis and Alberto GinasteraIn Rosenzweig's year, Susan Sontag received the award for literary achievementLink to extracts of compositions: -http://www.stytunes.co.uk/mrosenzweig.zipVidin State PhilharmonicThe Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra, founded as a private institution in 1910, became State Orchestra on 28 April 1949. For decades it has now been a leading cultural institution in the city of Vidin and the Vidin region.Vidin is located in the northernmost part of north-western Bulgaria, right on the banks of the river Danube. Founded by the Romans and having been the most important trading place of the lower Danube in the medieval times, Vidin is of rich historical and cultural heritage and musical traditions.The Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra's range of activities covers a season of about 35 symphonic concerts and 9 educational concerts in Vidin and its region.As one of the most demanded tour orchestras of Bulgaria tours lead the orchestra to Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Suisse, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Serbia-Montenegro. Manager and Artistic Director of Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra is Miroslav Krastev. [ More Detail ]
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Movt 1 Pt 2 Vidin State Phil/Michael RosenzweigPyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Parts 3 &4Movement 2Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenzaVidin State Philharmonic/Michael RosenzweigUsed with permissionMichael Rosenzweig: Principal Guest Conductor Vidin State PhilharmonicComposer: highest award: Berliner DAAD Kunstlerprogramm Fellowship Other musicians to have received this award include Igor Strawinsky, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Krzystof Penderecki, Luigi Dallapiccola, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Luigi Nono, Arvo Pärt , John Cage, Iannis Xenakis and Alberto GinasteraIn Rosenzweig's year, Susan Sontag received the award for literary achievementLink to extracts of compositions: -http://www.stytunes.co.uk/mrosenzweig.zipVidin State PhilharmonicThe Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra, founded as a private institution in 1910, became State Orchestra on 28 April 1949. For decades it has now been a leading cultural institution in the city of Vidin and the Vidin region.Vidin is located in the northernmost part of north-western Bulgaria, right on the banks of the river Danube. Founded by the Romans and having been the most important trading place of the lower Danube in the medieval times, Vidin is of rich historical and cultural heritage and musical traditions.The Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra's range of activities covers a season of about 35 symphonic concerts and 9 educational concerts in Vidin and its region.As one of the most demanded tour orchestras of Bulgaria tours lead the orchestra to Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Suisse, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Serbia-Montenegro. Manager and Artistic Director of Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra is Miroslav Krastev [ More Detail ]
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Movement 1 part 1I.Andante - Allegro con animaVidin State Philharmonic/Michael RosenzweigUsed with permissionMichael Rosenzweig: Principal Guest Conductor Vidin State PhilharmonicComposer: highest award: Berliner DAAD Kunstlerprogramm Fellowship Other musicians to have received this award include Igor Strawinsky, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Krzystof Penderecki, Luigi Dallapiccola, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Luigi Nono, Arvo Pärt , John Cage, Iannis Xenakis and Alberto GinasteraIn Rosenzweig's year, Susan Sontag received the award for literary achievementLink to extracts of compositions: -http://www.stytunes.co.uk/mrosenzweig.zipVidin State PhilharmonicThe Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra, founded as a private institution in 1910, became State Orchestra on 28 April 1949. For decades it has now been a leading cultural institution in the city of Vidin and the Vidin region.Vidin is located in the northernmost part of north-western Bulgaria, right on the banks of the river Danube. Founded by the Romans and having been the most important trading place of the lower Danube in the medieval times, Vidin is of rich historical and cultural heritage and musical traditions.The Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra's range of activities covers a season of about 35 symphonic concerts and 9 educational concerts in Vidin and its region.As one of the most demanded tour orchestras of Bulgaria tours lead the orchestra to Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Suisse, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Serbia-Montenegro. Manager and Artistic Director of Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra is Miroslav Krastev. [ More Detail ]