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| Gyoergy Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy | 
 enlarge | Creators: William Pearson, Matthew Wilkie, Matt Haimovitz, Richard Hosford, Gyorgy Ligeti, Claudio Abbado, David Atherton, Helmut Franz, Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Wiener Blasersolisten, Jacques Zoon, James Sommerville, Mary Thomas, Douglas Boyd, Chamber Orchestra Of Europe, London Sinfonietta, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerd Zacher, Alfons Kontarsky
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Category: Music
List Price: $30.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 69302
Format: Box Set, Collector's Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000762302
UPC: 028947764434
EAN: 0028947764434
ASIN: B000HWZALK
Release Date: November 14, 2006
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Sonata for Solo Cello--Matt Haimovitz, cello; | | • | Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet--Members of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; | | • | String Quartet no. 1 "MAtamorphoses nocturnes"--Hagen Quartet; | | • | Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet--Vienna Brass Soloists; | | • | String Quartet No. 2--LaSalle Quartet |
Disc 2
| • | AtmosphAres for large orchestra--Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado;* | | • | Volumina for organ--Gerd Zacher, organ; | | • | Lux aeterna for 16 voices--Choir of North German Radio Hamburg; | | • | Organ Study no. 1 "Harmonies"--Gerd Zacher, organ; | | • | Lontano for orchestra--Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado;* | | • | Ramifications for strings--Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez; | | • | Melodien for Orchestra--London Sinfonietta, David Atherton |
Disc 3
| • | Aventures--Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez; Nouvelles | | • | Aventures--Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez; | | • | Cello Concerto--Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello; Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez; | | • | Chamber Concerto--Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez; | | • | Mysteries of the Macabre--Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet; | | • | Double Concerto for Flute and Oboe--Members of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe* |
Disc 4
| • | The Big Turtle Fanfare from the South China Sea--Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky, pianos; | | • | Monument-Self-portrait-Movement--Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky, pianos; | | • | Piano Study no. 2 "Cordes A vide"--Gianluca Cascioli, piano; | | • | Piano Study no. 4 "Fanfares" Gianluca Cascioli, piano; | | • | Piano Concerto--Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano; | | • | Violin Concerto--Saschko Gawriloff, violin; Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Tribute to the late composer Gyorgy Ligeti Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006) "With the passing of Gyorgy Ligeti on 12 June 2006 at the age of 83 in Vienna following a lengthy illness, the musical world has lost a true maverick. An independent thinker, Ligeti charted a singular route in his music with the evolution of a voice that is hard to ignore. In this respect one is tempted to put him alongside figures such as Boulez, Cage, Stockhausen and Xenakis when considering the major shapers of late twentieth century composition." --Evan Dickerson, Music Web International
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| Customer Reviews:
A Fine and Affordable Library of the Works of Gyoergy Ligeti June 2, 2007
123 out of 139 found this review helpful
Gyoergy Ligeti died in 2006 after a long and productive life as a composer who challenged the creativity of even his most avant-garde colleagues. Teldec produced a magnificent series of CDs, The Ligeti Project, which contain some of the most thrilling performances of the composer's well-known works as well as much of the esoterica: it is big, it is expensive in toto. This 4-disc album, while less inclusive, presents all of the works DGG has recorded and the price is affordable (just over $30) for such a solid survey.
The works include pieces for solo instruments (organ, piano), chamber ensembles from quartets to small chamber orchestras, to the works for chorus, instrumental concerti and for large orchestra. The various ensembles - Ensemble InterContemporain, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, London Sinfonietta, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir of North German Radio Hamburg, the Hagen Quartet, Vienna Brass Soloists, LaSalle Quartet and multiple exceptional soloists - are under the direction of such luminaries as Claudio Abbado, David Atherton, and Pierre Boulez.
The collection of works is a compilation of the recordings by one company, and instead of the presentation being chronological in format, it plays as simply a broad sampler. Yes, the famous works are here, but it is the lack of the very early works - such as the magnificent 'Concert Romanesc 1951', an absolutely infectious play of folk tunes and quasi-folk tunes sewn together with some of the most brilliant orchestration in the composer's repertoire - works that held the glimmer of the genius just beginning to bloom, that make the collection less than perfect.
For the devotee of Ligeti's genre the Teldec collection is far more complete. But for the music lover looking to expand horizons, this set has superb performances of the more familiar (and not so familiar) moments in the career of Gyoergy Ligeti. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, June 07
most excellent May 12, 2007
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
this is an excellent intro to music i had neglected. a wonderful little stepping stone,
a tribute to Gyorgy Ligeti (1923 -- 2006) December 13, 2006
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
CLEAR OR CLOUDY: COMPLETE RECORDINGS ON DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON is a 4-disc set of Ligeti's music, recorded between 1968 and 1995 for DG, Decca and Philips. The format is a double jewelcase rather than a box. For anyone who has collected the entire Ligeti Edition on Sony and Ligeti Project on Teldec, of course there are no new pieces here. But for Ligeti devotees, this is an essential set if you do not already have all these recordings in their original form.
The first disc includes both String Quartets, No. 1 (1953-4) performed by the Hagen Quartett, and No. 2 (1968), one of Ligeti's masterpieces, performed by the LaSalle Quartet. The Arditti Quartet has recorded the definitive versions of the string quartets, but what makes the CLEAR OR CLOUDY presentation extraordinary is that No. 1 is preceded by the "6 Bagatelles for Wind Quintet" (1953), and No. 2 is preceded by "10 Pieces for Wind Quintet" (1968). The styles of the 1950s works are similar, and so are the styles of the 1960s works, and so overall it makes a great double pairing of chamber music. The second disc includes Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in live performances of "Atmospheres" (1961) and "Lontano" (1967) from 1988, interspersed with "Volumina" and "Harmonies" for organ, also from the 1960s, "Lux aeterna," the famed choral work from 1966, featured in Kubrick's 2001, "Ramifications" from 1968-9, performed by Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and "Melodien" for orchestra from 1971. Again, this is brilliant programming, and the works, powerful in their own right, are enhanced by the juxtaposition.
The third disc includes the vocal works "Aventures" (1962) and "Nouvelles Aventures" (1962-5), both performed by Boulez and the EI, the "Concerto for Cello & Orchestra," a 1992 recording by Boulez & EI, and two excellent chamber works -- "Chamber Concerto" (1969-70) with Boulez/EI, and "Double Concerto for Flute & Oboe" (1972) with Abbado & the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the latter live in Berlin from 1995. The fourth disc includes music for trumpet and piano, but concludes with two of the great works of Ligeti's late period, the "Concerto for Piano & Orchestra" (1985-88) and the "Concerto for Violin & Orchestra" (1989-93), both with Boulez/EI, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard on piano and Saschko Gawriloff on violin, recorded in 1992 and 1993.
With Ligeti's death in June 2006, we have lost one of the greatest composers of the late 20th century. For anyone who has not heard Ligeti's music, this set would certainly serve as an excellent introduction. Collectors will know whether they need CLEAR OR CLOUDY, but I suspect that most serious Ligeti listeners will find ample reason.
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