György Ligeti: Streichquartette Nr.1 & 2 on CD
Streichquartette Nr.1 & 2
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
Expected availability end of September 2025
+Andante & Allegretto
- Artists:
- Parker Quartet
- Label:
- Naxos
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2007
- Item number:
- 2256727
- UPC/EAN:
- 0747313078172
- Release date:
- 30.11.2009
György Ligeti's choral and orchestral music hit the mainstream when it was featured in the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but his equally remarkable chamber works remain less well known. While indebted to his compatriot Bartók for its folk-inflected passages, Ligeti's First Quartet, subtitled Métamorphoses nocturnes, is nonetheless a work of striking originality. The Second Quartet, composed around fifteen years later, abounds in contrasts between glacial stillness and manic activity, mechanistic pizzicatos and gentle oscillations. His early Andante and Allegro is richly expressive and easily accessible.
Reviews
FonoForum 03/10: "Die Fähigkeit des Parker-Quartetts, auch Passagen komplexer Polyphonie sehr durchhörbar zu gestalten, kommt Ligetis 2. Streichquartett besonders zugute. Es erscheint wie ein kammermusikalischer Katalog von Ligetis Klangtechniken zwischen mikropolyphonen Feldern und mechanisch tickenden Bewegungsabläufen, die mit ganz feiner Nadel gestrickt werden müssen, um ihre Wirkung zu entfalten. Das Parker-Quartett agiert mit der Präzision eines Uhrwerks und verliert dabei auch die subtilen Allusionen an Tradition nie aus den Augen."-
Tracklisting
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Contributors
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 String Quartet No. 1, "Metamorphoses nocturnes": Allegro grazioso - Presto
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2 String Quartet No. 1, "Metamorphoses nocturnes": Prestissimo - Andante tranquillo -
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3 String Quartet No. 1, "Metamorphoses nocturnes": Tempo di valse, moderato, con eleganza, un poco capriccioso - Allegrett
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4 String Quartet No. 1, "Metamorphoses nocturnes": Subito allegro con moto - Prestissimo
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5 String Quartet No. 2: I. Allegro nervoso
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6 String Quartet No. 2: II. Sostenuto, molto calmo
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7 String Quartet No. 2: Iii. Come Un Meccanismo Di Precisione
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8 String Quartet No. 2: IV. Presto furioso, brutale, tumultuoso
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9 String Quartet No. 2: V. Allegro con delicatezza
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10 Andante cantabile
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11 Andante and Allegretto: Allegretto poco capriccioso
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