Ligeti: Six Bagatelles, Chamber Concerto & Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (Live)

Featuring

Christian Laborie
Hélène Mourot
Marion Ralincourt
Michaël Rolland
Pierre Rougerie
François-Xavier Roth

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Les Siècles
György Ligeti

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Composer's Artistic Vision

György Ligeti described his Chamber Concerto as one of his 'textural compositions,' where individual voices form a dense, microtonal mesh, unsettled by tiny impulses, like an insect in a spider's web.

Album & Artwork

The score for Ligeti's Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet ends with an enigmatic quote from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, reflecting the ambiguity of 'That's all'.

Compositional Technique

The Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet are orchestrations of six pieces from Ligeti's earlier piano cycle, Musica ricercata, where he first explored an independent musical language.

Composition History

Ligeti's Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet were banned in their complete form in Hungary due to their 'massed minor seconds,' as 'Totalitarian systems do not like dissonance.'

Recording & Production

This album was recorded live at the Méjan Chapel in Arles and the Cité de la musique in Soissons on April 12, 13, and 14, 2016.

Compositional Technique

In the Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet, Ligeti uses 250 'stones' (melodies, chords, passages, echoes, figures) as building blocks, which are constantly recombined like a kaleidoscope.

Composer Biography

György Ligeti, a key figure in contemporary music, fled Hungary after the 1956 Soviet repression and joined Karlheinz Stockhausen's circle in Cologne.