György Ligeti: Streichquartette Nr.1 & 2 (CD)

György Ligeti (1923-2006)

CD

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Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.

Item will be re-manufactured.
Expected availability end of September 2025

Current price: EUR 14.99

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+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
Contributors

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 String Quartet No. 1, "Metamorphoses nocturnes": Allegro grazioso - Presto
2 String Quartet No. 1, "Metamorphoses nocturnes": Prestissimo - Andante tranquillo -
3 String Quartet No. 1, "Metamorphoses nocturnes": Tempo di valse, moderato, con eleganza, un poco capriccioso - Allegrett
4 String Quartet No. 1, "Metamorphoses nocturnes": Subito allegro con moto - Prestissimo
5 String Quartet No. 2: I. Allegro nervoso
6 String Quartet No. 2: II. Sostenuto, molto calmo
7 String Quartet No. 2: Iii. Come Un Meccanismo Di Precisione
8 String Quartet No. 2: IV. Presto furioso, brutale, tumultuoso
9 String Quartet No. 2: V. Allegro con delicatezza
10 Andante cantabile
11 Andante and Allegretto: Allegretto poco capriccioso