Gyorgy Ligeti

Amazing book-bound storage binder collecting 16 10" albums issued in the historical La Musica Moderna collection, without covers/magazines, published by Fratelli Fabbri in the late 1960's as a panorama of avant-garde music in the 20th century.

Rare mid-1980's re-issue of the amazing 5LP box set on Wergo with a selection of the composer's many masterpieces spanning from 1953 to 1972, including electronic music and compositions for organ, string quartet, various ensembles, choir and orchestra. Absoutely essential. With booklet.

Late 1970's re-issue on Wergo's "Große Interpreten neuer Musik" series of the 1969 album of masterful interpretations by the German virtuoso of landmark avant-garde compositions for cello solo or cello and orchestra spanning from 1914 to 1966.

A selection of compositions for choir spanning from 1904 to 1982 by the two Hungarian masters, performed by the DR Vokalensemblet conducted by Marcus Creed and released by OUR Recordings on CD-only in 2022.

Contrasting serialist and structuralist compositions for brass quintett by the Swedish and Hungarian composers, played by the Stockholms Blåsarkvintett and released in Caprice in 1981. With insert.

Three breath-takingly beautiful compositions from the early 1970's released on Decca's "Headline" contemporary music series in 1976. With insert.

1979 recording of Ligeti's only opera composed in 1977, released on Wergo in 1980 and never re-issued either on vinyl or CD. With insert.

1979 recording of Ligeti's only opera composed in 1977, released on Wergo in 1980 and never re-issued either on vinyl or CD. With insert.

Four brilliant compositions from the 1960's for chamber ensembles (and singers) performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez, released on DGG in 1983.

Two verions of the 1962 out-there symphonic poem for 100 metronomes, recorded in 1985 and released by the tiny label Edition Michael Frauenlob Bauer in 1989. Very rare.

Avant-garde pieces for two pianos composed between 1956 and 1976, performed by Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky and released on DGG in 1980. Promotional copy, with insert.

Avant-garde pieces for two pianos composed between 1956 and 1976, performed by Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky and released on DGG in 1980. With insert.

Three string quartets composed in the 1960's and unsurpassedly performed by the Lasalle Quartett, released on DGG's famed "Avantgarde" contemporary/electronic music series in 1970.

First volume of new music for choir by by some of the most inportant XXth Century composers (Anton Webern, Henri Pousseur, Dieter Schnebel, Luigi Nono, Sylvano Bussotti, Hans Otte, György Ligeti) performed by Schola Cantorum Stuttgart and released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.

Rare compositions for solo instruments or small ensembles with or without electronics by some of the greatest XXth Century composers (Mauricio Kagel, Earle Brown, John Cage, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang Fortner, Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, György Ligeti, Henri Pousseur) spanning from 1952 to 1979 performed by Pro Musica Da Camera and released on Thorofon in 1981. With insert.

2025 stock  In 1985 György Ligeti created six piano studies. The exceptionally new of these studies is the possibility of having one player generate the vision of several different simultaneous tempo layers. The extremely high level of difficulty of these studies demands the pianist's utmost virtuosity. With Volker Banfield, Ligeti found the right pianist for his studies. The fourth study, 'Fanfares', is dedicated to Banfield. Olivier Messiaen's 'Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus', too, makes hug…

2025 stock "Musica Ricercata" of 1951-53 is a collection of 11 piano pieces which even with their traditional character went beyond what was considered appropriate for performance in Hungary in the early 1950s. The tenth piece, e.g., was considered too "decadent" because of the abundance of minor seconds. The short "Capriccios" and "Invention", written in 1947-48, reveal convincingly the emergence of Ligeti's musical identity. "Monument · Selbstportrait · Bewegung" (three pieces for two pianos) …

2009 release ** "Japan-for-U.S. CD reissue of Varèse Sarabande LP configuration (VX 81060), featuring contemporary, avant-garde classical performances, recorded live at Tokyo's Nissei Theatre in 1966 by the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Seiji Ozawa and Hiroshi Wakasugi, featuring performances of the works of nineteen separate composers, of which four were selected for this particular release. The packaging features an eight-page booklet with liner notes "based upon notes by Kun…

Small repress available! Biggest Tip possible! ** English/German edition. 288 pp + 5CD plenty of incredible music, most of which have never been heard before **  From the Wolke Verlag imprint, who've already brought us incredible books like Karl Berger's "The Music Mind Experience", "FMP Free Music Production - The Living Music", Peter Brötzmann's Along the Way, and George Lewis' "Composing While Black. Afrodiasporic New Music Today", to name only a few and a great many more - comes one of the m…

*Italian Language Edition* Un libro/almanacco con cadenza quadrimestrale che raccoglie saggi, interviste, approfondimenti sulla ricerca sonora contemporanea per un concetto allargato di musica. Nel primo volume: Busoni, Bennink, Anderson, Mayr, Sax, Zappa, Zorn.

Pure Virgin Vinyl, 180 Gram, Special Gatefold Edition. Sonny Rollins' classic 1966 album Alfie showcases the saxophonist performing music composed for the British film by the same name. It was arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson and features superlative performances by the leader, who is accompanied by such co-stars as Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Cleveland, J.J. Johnson and Roger Kellaway. The album reached #17 on the R&B Billboard chart and was given a rating of 4½ out of five stars on Al/Music by…

2024 Stock. Limited gatefold edition LP. Deluxe 180-gram reissue including original artwork & credits. The original soundtrack album to the iconic 1968 Stanley Kubrick film by the same name. Known for its use of many classical and orchestral pieces, it is credited for giving many classical compositions resurgences in popularity. From very early in production, Kubrick decided that he wanted the film to be a primarily nonverbal experience that did not rely on the traditional techniques of narrativ…

The legendary DG Avantgarde vinyl series (1968-1971) is turning 55! In order to celebrate this occasion, the series is now released on 21 CDs for the first time. The Avantgarde series serves as a historical document for a time of radical change in musical thinking and the breaking of artistic boundaries. The question "What is music?" confronted many of the composers and musicians involved in the series, and the anti-authoritarian spirit of the 1960s and 1970s was a palpable influence. Deutsche G…

György Ligeti's only opera, Le Grand Macabre, is an entertaining, taut piece of musical theatre that sits somewhere between parody and ominous seriousness, between clowning and wisdom. Based on Michel de Ghelderode's play and set in the imaginary land of Breughelland, it follows Nekrotzar, alias the Grand Macabre, who has not only ambitions to suck blood but apocalyptic visions: he wants to bring about the end of the world personally, and fails. Ligeti himself said its bizarre, exaggerated music…

*2022 stock* Several of György Ligeti's best-known and most characteristic pieces, in recordings made within a few years of their composition by the musicians closest to them. Atmosphères for large orchestra without percussion and Lux aeterna for sixteen-part mixed choir a cappella are the two works that Stanley Kubrick used in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and they are still the purest examples of Ligeti's micropolyphony: dense webs of lines that merge into slowly shifting clouds of sound. Atmosphères…

*2022 stock* This CD of works by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti represents an extremely interesting combination of several of his serene works for harpsichord, organ, and wind quintet with two electronic compositions from the late 1950s.

György Ligeti's "Requiem" for soprano, mezzo-soprano, two mixed choirs and orchestra is one of his most impressive compositions - especially, when directed by Michael Gielen - and at the same time "the" requiem of the 20th century: Sound which is chromatically layered moves gradually from the lower registers to the higher, thus changing from mourning sounds into the promise of the eternal light. In the Kyrie the polyphonic net which was previously static begins to move gently. It was a part of t…

Tip! After its reading of Julius Eastman's Feminine, released in 2021, the Ensemble 0 revisit the repertoires of Pauline Oliveros and György Ligeti from another angle. From the works of Oliveros, they exhumed a deeply meditative piece for accordion and voice, giving it a new life in the form of vaporous, cloud-riding chamber music. With Ligeti, the piano radicalism of the Musica Ricercata miniatures crops up again in a new and as yet unreleased orchestration.

Terrific nine-CD box (digipack CD sleeves!) at a fantastic price! The heart of Ligeti's output, and the basis for the consensus that places him among the 20th Century's most important composers, is the series of masterworks written during his middle period, which lasted from roughly 1957 (after his escape from Hungary) to 1977 (marked by the completion of his opera Le Grand Macabre). The "sound surface" compositions from the period, including Atmosphères, the Requiem, Lux Aeterna and much of the…

Some 150 years apart, both composers developed minute nuclei into an ever expanding cosmos of sound, each against the background of his own era. Prick up your ears – Schubert's Fantasy in F minor and Sonata in B flat major D 617 crossed with Ligeti's Three pieces for two pianos: rich in contrasts, upsetting, and in a simply stunning interpretation by Andreas Grau & Götz Schumacher. In the beginning there was simply the idea of playing Schubert and Ligeti together in one program: "During the perf…

The pieces for piano/cembalo on this CD include the first two Capriccios by the 24-year-old Ligeti, the Musica ricercata, and the first volume of the legendary Études, in brilliant interpretations by the German pianist Erika Haase. Ligeti was a master in how to make tricky compositional systems appear as more than just that by inspiring them with sensual substance: that's what distinguishes the artist from the artisan. Throughout his life Ligeti kept his ears pricked up and his senses sharpened …

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 20th century composition.

All eighteen of György Ligeti's Études pour piano in three books (from 1985), played by Thomas Hell in a recording by Deutschlandradio Kultur.

György Ligeti's organ works Volumina, Harmonies and Coulée, with Musica ricercata arranged for organ, plus Dominik Susteck's improvisations Sprachsignale, played by Susteck on the organ of the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne.

Violin and piano works by Ravel (Sonate posthume), Franck (Sonata in A major), Ligeti (Duo, first recording) and Messiaen (Thème et variations), played by Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana; recorded March 2017 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano.

Kim Kashkashian plays György Kurtág's Signs, Games and Messages for solo viola (nineteen pieces) and György Ligeti's Sonata for viola solo (1991-94), recorded in May 2011 at Propstei St. Gerold and produced by Manfred Eicher.

The Keller Quartett plays György Ligeti's String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 with the Molto adagio from Samuel Barber's String Quartet op. 11 between them. Recorded June 2007 and October 2011 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.

Solo cello recital by Miklós Perényi: Britten's Third Suite op. 87, Bach's Suite No. 6 BWV 1012 and Ligeti's Sonata. Recorded November 2009 at the RSI Auditorio in Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.