Gyorgy Ligeti
Kammerkonzert / Ramifications / Lux Aeterna / Atmosphères
LabelWergoGenreContemporary Composition
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*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 is played by the Südwestfunk Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden under Ernest Bour, Lux aeterna sung by the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart under Clytus Gottwald. Ramifications appears in both its versions, for string orchestra and for twelve solo strings, with the players divided into groups tuned slightly apart, so that the harmony seems to blur and sour from within; here the Saarbrücken Radio Chamber Orchestra is conducted by Antonio Janigro.
The Kammerkonzert for 13 instrumentalists, with its harpsichord and Hammond organ, its mechanical textures and sudden breakdowns, is performed by the Viennese Ensemble "die reihe" under Friedrich Cerha, and it is one of the finest things Ligeti wrote. Total time 54'48".
Format
TT: 54'48
Kammerkonzert für 13 Instrumentalisten (1969/70)
© 1974 B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz
Ramifications (1968/69)
© 1970 B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz
Lux aeterna für 16stimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella (1966)
© 1968 Henry Litolff's / C.F. Peters, Frankfurt
Atmosphères für großes Orchester ohne Schlagzeug (1961)
© 1963 Universal Edition Wien
Aufnahmen:
ORF Wien (Kammerkonzert) /
Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, Dezember 1970 (Ramifications I) /
Saarländischer Rundfunk Saarbrücken, Nov. 1970 (Ramifications II) /
Südwest-Tonstudio, Stuttgart 1966 (Lux aeterna) /
Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, Mai 1966 (Atmosphères)
Cover-Abb.: M. C. Escher "Concave and Convex" / Collection Haags Gemeentemuseum - The Hague
© 1988 M. C. Escher c/o Cordon Art - Baarn Holland
℗ 1984 / 1988 WERGO Schallplatten GmbH, Mainz, W. Germany
© 1988 WERGO Schallplatten GmbH, Mainz, W. Germany
Manufactured in West Germany. Printed in West Germany
Standard jewel case packaging with 32-page booklet
Track 1 to 6 previously released on [m=700575]
Track 7 previously released on [m=326065]
Track 8 previously released on [m=320635]
Release notes
TT: 54'48 Kammerkonzert für 13 Instrumentalisten (1969/70) © 1974 B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz Ramifications (1968/69) © 1970 B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz Lux aeterna für 16stimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella (1966) © 1968 Henry Litolff's / C.F. Peters, Frankfurt Atmosphères für großes Orchester ohne Schlagzeug (1961) © 1963 Universal Edition Wien Aufnahmen: ORF Wien (Kammerkonzert) / Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, Dezember 1970 (Ramifications I) / Saarländischer Rundfunk Saarbrücken, Nov. 1970…
| Kammerkonzert | |||
| 1 | Corrente | 5:14 | |
| 2 | Calmo, Sustenuto | 6:48 | |
| 3 | Movimento Preciso E Meccanico | 4:10 | |
| 4 | Presto | 3:41 | |
| 5 | Ramifications, Version Für Streichorchester | 7:53 | |
| 6 | Ramifications, Version Für 12 Solostreicher | 7:36 | |
| 7 | Lux Aeterna | 9:21 | |
| 8 | Atmosphères | 8:32 | |
- Gyorgy Ligeti
- Composed By, Liner Notes
- M. C. Escher
- Cover, Illustration [Cover-Abb.]
- Harald Kaufmann
- Liner Notes
- Monika Lichtenfeld
- Liner Notes
- Sarah E. Soulsby
- Liner Notes [English Translation Of All Preceding Introductory Comments By]
- Pierre Michel
- Liner Notes [Traduction Française De Tous Les Commentaires D'introduction Précédents Par]
- Peter Andersen
- Photography By [Foto Ligeti]
