György Ligeti, born in 1923 in Transylvania (then part of Romania), has lived in Western Europe since the 1956 Hungarian uprising and is now an Austrian citizen.
Recording & Production
All interpretations on this CD were supervised and authorized by the composer, György Ligeti.
Performer Biography
Elgar Howarth, a conductor on this album, frequently performs contemporary music and collaborates closely with composers such as Iannis Xenakis and György Ligeti.
Composer Biography
György Ligeti was isolated from Western European compositional trends like Schoenberg's twelve-tone method and Webern's work while composing in Budapest around 1950.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Around 1950, György Ligeti began experimenting with simple rhythmic and sound structures to build a new music from scratch, questioning what could be done with a single note or interval.
Performer Biography
Gunilla von Bahr, a leading Nordic flutist, is one of the few flutists who can equally well play all four types of flutes, from piccolo to bass flute.
Compositional Technique
György Ligeti's "Musica Ricercata" is based on a unique idea where the first movement uses only one note, gradually increasing the number of notes in subsequent movements until all notes appear in the final movement.
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