Ligeti: Mechanical Music
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1997-05-20
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- No 1, Sostenuto-Misurato-Prestissimo, arr for barrel organ
- No 2, Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale, arr for barrel organ
- No 3, Allegro con spirito, arr for barrel organ
- No 4, Tempo de Valse, arr for barrel organ
- No 5, Rubato. Lamentoso, arr for barrel organ
- No 6, Allegro molto capriccioso, arr for barrel organ
- No 7, Contabile, molto legato, arr for barrel organ
- No 8, Vivace, Energico, arr for barrel organ
- No 9, B?la Bart?k in memoriam, arr for barrel organ
- No 10, Vivace, Capriccioso, arr for barrel organ
- No 11, Omaggio a Girolamo Frescob?ldi, arr for barrel organ
- No 10, Der Zauberlehrling, adapted for player piano
- No 9, Vertige, adapted for player piano
- No 11, En suspens, adapted for player piano
- No 13, L'escalier du diable, adapted for player piano
- No 7, Galamb borong, adapted for 2 player pianos
Free Music Notes for Ligeti: Mechanical Music
Free Music Review: Report from the far reaches of the musical envelope.
Hit: 5 Stars
This recording of Gyorgy Ligeti's 'Mechanical Music' gets five stars from me only because I happen to like this sort of thing, and 'good' music of this type which pushes the envelope in one direction or another is hard to come by. My immediate reaction to it is the amount of similarity I hear in some of the works to those of Frank Zappa's more serious instrumentals, especially to his 'signature' tune, 'Peaches En Regalia'. If I didn't know Sir Frank was heavily influenced by Edgar Varese, I would have started looking for Hungarian skeletens in the Zappa closet.
I will say that if you are not a nut on having the 'complete' set of things, this CD is less interesting than Ligeti's vocal works, but just a bit more interesting than his conventional instrumental works.
Ligeti: Mechanical Music Poster
Although Gyorgy Ligeti is best known for his eerie, tonally ambiguous choral and orchestral writing (immortalized in 2001: A Space Odyssey), this collection of works for musical automata--player piano, barrel organ, and metronomes--includes some of his most astonishing music. The player piano pieces are an exhilarating, intensely physical roller-coaster ride through superhuman tempi and dynamic extremes--an intriguing marriage of artifice and human invention. While clearly indebted to the influence of Nancarrow, Ligeti's player piano works are more approachable than Nancarrow's rigorous etudes, revealing the sense of humor that distinguishes Ligeti from his more ponderous contemporaries. Likewise, the controversial prank piece Metronomes foreshadows the phasing experiments of Reich with its intricate cross-rhythms created by metronomes marking time simultaneously at different speeds. Perhaps most fascinating of all are Ligeti's compositions for computer-modified barrel organ--a hand-cranked, calliope-like instrument popular with itinerant musicians in the 1700s. --Dennis ReaClassical Music CDs
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