Business update: Our website remains open for orders. However, delays in postal and courier services mean that deliveries are currently taking longer than usual
Browse: CD, Ligeti (composer)
Return to CD.
CD
$14.75In stock
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
The main interpretative obstacle in the First Quartet is how to gauge the progression of its first three movement so the finale is a culmination without obliterating that went before. The Belcea... — More…
Awards:
CD
$14.75In stock
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
Bartók & Ligeti: Ensemble Intercontemporain
Jérôme Comte (clarinet), Diego Tosi (violin) & Sébastien Vichard (piano), Gilles Durot, Samuel Favre (percussions) & Dimitri Vassilakis, Sébastien Vichard (pianos), Hidéki Nagano (piano), Pierre Strauch (cello), Jeanne-Marie Conquer (violin)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher
Others may have taken the opening Vivace of Ligeti's Piano Concerto at more of a lick, but the precision here packs a punch, and there's a sheer sense of fun as the final two movements develop... — More…
Awards:
2 CDs
$24.75In stock
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
Ligeti - Clear or Cloudy
Recommended
Matt Haimovitz, Jacques Zoon, Douglas Boyd, Richard Hosford, James Sommerville, Matthew Wilkie, Claudio Abbado, Helmut Franz, Gerd Zacher, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Håkan Hardenberger, Roland Pöntinen, Jacques Zoon & Douglas Boyd, Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky, Gianluca Cascioli, Pierre-Laurent...
Awards:
4 CDs
$24.75In stock
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
Musica Viva 22
Recommended
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, George Benjamin
This is special. Three utterly captivating, ear-tickling pieces by composers from successive generations in superlative performances…the centrepiece of the disc is the world premiere performance... — More…
Awards:
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
Les Vents Français: French Music for Winds & 20th Century Wind Quintets
Recommended
Les Vents Français (Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Francois Leleux (oboe), Gilbert Audin (bassoon), Radovan Vlatkovic (horn)
individually, they play with attractive timbre and immaculate intonation and articulation. Collectively, they blend their colours with great finesse, within dynamics ranging from cushioned pianissimo... — More…
Awards:
2 CDs
$15.50In stock
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
Each piece is beautifully crafted but collectively may be too much of a good thing, even in such a superb rendition. A disc for specialists, perhaps, but a special one. — More…
Awards:
CD
$14.75In stock
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
Brahms & Ligeti: Violin Concertos
Cadenzas written by Thomas Adès
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
In the Brahms, Hadelich proves a sensitive and technically secure guide to the score’s alternations of serenity and passion, subtly varying degrees of vibrato; Miguel Harth-Bedoya unfolds the... — More…
Awards:
CD
$14.75In stock
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
There is plenty of lovely piano-playing here, from a fleet-footed Bach Chromatic Fantasy to an architecturally conceived Isolde’s Liebestod, which is my personal highlight. The choices of repertoire... — More…
Awards:
2 CDs
$19.50In stock
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
Musical Toys, above all, delights in the importance of being playful...the work that makes the CD essential is Unsuk Chin’s set of Six Piano Etudes: music that magnificently fuses contemporary... — More…
