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György Ligeti Edition 1: String Quartets and Duets - Arditti String Quartet
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Track Listing
- String Quartet No. 1 'Metamorphoses Nocturnes': Allegro Grazioso
- String Quartet No. 1 'Metamorphoses Nocturnes': Vivace, Capriccioso
- String Quartet No. 1 'Metamorphoses Nocturnes': Adagio, Mesto
- String Quartet No. 1 'Metamorphoses Nocturnes': Presto
- String Quartet No. 1 'Metamorphoses Nocturnes': Andante Tranquillo
- String Quartet No. 1 'Metamorphoses Nocturnes': Tempo Di Valse, Moderato, Con Eleganza, Un Poco Capriccioso
- String Quartet No. 1 'Metamorphoses Nocturnes': Allegretto, Un Poco Gioviale
- String Quartet No. 1 'Metamorphoses Nocturnes': Prestissimo
- String Quartet No. 2: Allegro Nervoso
- String Quartet No. 2: Sostenuto, Molto Calmo
- String Quartet No. 2: Come Un Meccanismo Di Precisione
- String Quartet No. 2: Presto Furioso, Brutale, Tumultuoso
- String Quartet No. 2: Allegro Con Delicatezza
- Hommage A Hilding Rosenberg
- Balada Si Joc: Balada Andante
- Balada Si Joc: Allegro Vivace
- Andante And Allegretto: Andante Cantabile
- Andante And Allegretto: Allegretto Poco Capriccioso
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #55177 in Music
- Released on: 1997-01-21
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential recording
This is a fine collection of moving, muscular performances by this seminal postwar composer. Surely the best known of the works on this disc is the Second String Quartet, one of the masterpieces of 20th-century music--although you might not know it's a masterpiece until the heartbreaking last movement. But the First String Quartet, written before Ligeti emigrated from Hungary to the West, is fascinating: it shows Ligeti working through the influence of Bartók, particularly Bartók's Third and Fourth Quartets--music Ligeti knew only silently, from the score, since performances of Bartók's music were banned by the Hungarian communist regime. This excellent recording provides a complete overview of Ligeti's compositional career through the medium of string chamber music, from homages to Bartók to the achievement of Ligeti's own groundbreaking style. --Joshua Cody
Customer Reviews
Very Intense Performances!
Arditti Qt gives the most intensely felt performances of Ligeti's very original chamber music masterpieces, String Quartet 1 & 2, accentuating the contrast between agressive passages and eerie quiet sections. Rest of the tracks includes some gems and premiere recordings. LaSalle Qt on DG also gives excellent reading of String Quartet No.2, worth checking out!
Important, but not as interesting as the vocal works.
Sony's "Gyorgy Ligeti Edition 1: String Quartets and Duos" is the first in this series of, I believe, complete works by Ligeti, but it is always the third or fourth disk I go to whenever I get around to listening to Ligeti once again, about once every year.
To me, the average amateur 'classical music' consumer, it is interesting, imaginative, and certainly 'new' when compared to 19th and early 20th century music, but it just doesn't seem to have the same cachet as the vocal works. While I would sooner listen to Ligeti's vocal works than most other modern music, I actually prefer Bartok, Berg, and Schoenberg for their instrumental works.
I agree with the top reviewer that the String Quartet No. 2 is the hit of the disk, but it doesn't blow me away in the same way that 'Lux Aeterna' does. That may be just the '2001' factor at work, but there you have it.
Still excellent and still evocative of other modernists, not the least of whom is Frank Zappa.
Not really my style...
This is a little too avant garde for me. I like my classical music to be just that: classical.
I bought the CD but I am returning it. Ligeti is very talented but his music (to me) is only tolerable in short bursts. I couldn't see myself listening to the whole CD time and again.
