Ligeti - Cello Concerto
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Special offer. Ligeti: Concertos
RecommendedChristian Poltéra (cello), Joonas Ahonen (piano)
BIT20 Ensemble, Baldur Brönnimann
what comes across in all this music is [Ligeti's] unerring ear for colour and harmony. The performances by Baldur Brönnimann and the Norwegian BIT20 Ensemble are brilliant throughout. An indispensable... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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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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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... — More…
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. 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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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.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Contemporary
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Ligeti: Cello Concerto, Mysteries of the Macabre & Piano Concerto
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Alberto Rosado (piano), Marco Blaauw (trumpet)
PluralEnsemble, Fabián Panisello
Does any work being more quietly than Ligeti's Cello Concerto? The soloist creeps in at pppppppp, and Nicolas Altstaedt manages a more restrained attack than any I've heard on disc...Pacing... — More…
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Boulez A-Z: Debussy - Liszt
Gareth Morrell (chorus master), Franklin Cohen (clarinet), Lisa Wellbaum (harp), Alison Hagley (soprano), Jane Manning (soprano), Mary Thomas (mezzo-soprano), William Pearson (bass (vocal)), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Saschko Gawriloff (violin), Daniel Barenboim (piano)
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Erling Blöndal Bengtsson: The Danish Radio Recordings, Vol. 1
Erling Blöndal Bengtsson & Claus Myrup, Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, Claus Myrup
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Michael Schønwandt, Jan Latham-Koenig, Diego Masson, Miltiadis Caridis, Alexander Lazarev
The Concerto opens about as quietly as is possible before rising and falling to climaxes of varying intensity. — More…
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Ligeti: Cello Concerto, etc.
Siegfried Palm (Cello)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen, Andrzej Markowski
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