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Ligeti - Violin Concerto
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Bartók, Eötvös & Ligeti: Violin Concertos
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern
Peter Eötvös
Kopatchinskaja marries consummate technical brilliance and an amazing aural imagination wiuth a capacity to bring completely new interpretative perspectives to some very familiar music. This...may... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd September 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Recording of the Year
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Ligeti: Violin Concerto - Concert Românesc - Piano Concerto
Isabelle Faust (violin), Martial Gauthier, Carole Roth, Robin Michael (cello), Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Others have made more of the essentially lyrical aspect of [the Violin Concerto], but Isabelle Faust's dynamic and dramatic approach is very exciting, and matched by the energy in the orchestra…A... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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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... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Ligeti - Clear or Cloudy
RecommendedMatt 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...
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Boulez conducts Ligeti
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Saschko Gawriloff (violin)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
The Violin Concerto (1992) is music by a composer fascinated with Shakespeare's The Tempest: indeed, it might even prove to be a substitute for Ligeti's longmooted operatic version of the play.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Contemporary
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Ligeti: Violin Concerto, Lontano, Atmosphères & San Francisco Polyphony
Benjamin Schmid (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
As [Lintu] prises open Ligeti's mulched-up woodwind micropolyphony...time feels curiously suspended, the high-speed urgency of the music hurtling forwards slowly and unobtrusively...Ligeti's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Bleuse draws playing of greater spontaneity if only slightly less precision than Pierre Boulez in that previous EIC recording of the Chamber Concerto...this is a persuasive means for getting... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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The Ligeti Project Volumes 1-5
RecommendedLigeti Project, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Peter Masseurs (trumpet), Siegfried Palm (cello), Daniel Reuss (director), Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Katalin Károlyi (mezzo-soprano), Amadinda Percussion Group (percussion), Sybille Mahni (natural horn), Thomas Bernstein (natural horn), Simon...
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
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Zimmermann - The Love for Three Oranges - Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Paganini, Prokofiev
Alexander Lonquich (piano), Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Robert Cohen (cello), Wolfgang Manz (piano), English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Asko Ensemble, Schönberg Ensemble, Jeffrey Tate, Franz Welser-Möst,...
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