Ligeti: Requiem Aventures Nouvelles Aventures
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Composer: Gyorgy LigetiConductor: Andrzej Markowski
Conductor: Friedrich Cerha
Conductor: Michael Gielen
Performer: Barbro Ericson
Performer: Liliana Poli
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1992-09-10
Music Label: Wergo Germany
Soundtracks:
- Requiem
- Aventures
- Nouvelles Aventures
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Free Music Review: A Requiem About Death and Passage
Hit: 5 Stars
Gyorgy Ligeti remains the 'bad boy' of contemporary music composition. More than any other composer he has pushed the borders of music to experiences that seem out of body - and at times, out of atmosphere! For this listener his creations are endlessly intriguing and fascinating and Ligeti never ceases to amaze.
This excellent recording of his 1965 Requiem is a mere half-hour long piece for large orchestra, two mixed choruses, and soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists. It demands much from the performers, so complex and dense is the writing: it also demands much from the audience who must be willing to be involved with the mood of the work in order to receive its many rewards. Ligeti's Requiem is ABOUT the dead, not for the dead: the overall feeling is one of witnessing the spirits of the departed rising from the grave into the nebulous realm of the spirit world before their souls can take flight into eternity. The majority of the work is choral and the sounds Ligeti creates are murmurings and tremolos and sighs that defy description. The orchestra is in conversation with the chorus and the two soloists intone the pleas of the dead. There are clouds of sounds that are haunting while there are also outbursts of emotional content that speak of terror and at the same time mocking humor of the human condition. It is divided into four parts: Introitus, Kyrie, Dies Irae, and Lacrimosa - the last movement literally drifts away from audible presence into somewhere beyond human understanding or hearing. Michael Gielen conducts the massive forces with complete understanding and soloists Barbro Ericson and Liliana Poli are excellent. Having had the pleasure of hearing a recent brilliant performance with the LA Philharmonic, the LA Master Chorale with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting was only somewhat marred by the very apparent audience response of merely tolerating this majestically moving work. But then they came for the following Beethoven 9th which followed....
Also on this recording are two sets of Ligeti's 'Aventures' series composed for 3 voices and 7 instruments and are brisk, lively, hilarious and astutely presented by Friedrich Cerha and Andrzej Markowski. This is definitely the other side of a genius composer's view of the musical universe! Highly recommended for the adventurous spirits. Grady Harp, May 06
Ligeti: Requiem Aventures Nouvelles Aventures Poster
Captivating. One of the unique aspects of Ligeti's music is his ability to project dense, chromatic webs of sound with an almost Mozartian clarity; this disconcerting sensation is masterfully reproduced in this performance of Ligeti's Requiem by conductor Michael Gielen. The finale--calamitous, but strangely withdrawn--represents the composer at his most dramatic. And yes, this is the music Stanley Kubrick used to accompany the discovery of the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Also on this disc are two other essential works, Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures, highly comic, highly theatrical, justly celebrated choral works. --Joshua CodyClassical Music CDs
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