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Artist:	LIGETI, GYORGY
Title:	The Complete Piano Music
Label:	BIS (SWEDEN)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$38.00
Catalog #:	BIS 1683/4CD

"This release coincides with the passing away of György Ligeti. It consists of his complete music for piano and includes previously unrecorded works, making it the only comprehensive survey so far of a genre in which this great figure of 20th century music was active until the very last years of his life. On it Fredrik Ullén, who in Gramophone has been described as 'a pianist as stylish as he is scintillating,' combines newly recorded material with two discs (from 1996 and 1998) which at the time of their release received a number of distinctions as well as the highest possible praise by the reviewers. 'To hear Ullén fly through Die Zauberlehrling is to understand the meaning of a great over competent performance. Small wonder Ligeti trusts the man!' and 'a superb reference recording!' was the verdict for BIS-CD-783 in Fanfare and in Fono Forum. The follow-up was greeted no less enthusiastically: 'Ullén continues his series as he began it: imbued with the finest touch and rhythmic exactitude' (Diapason) and 'This is a very fine disc' (Repertoire). To this material has been added the two Études of book three composed after the release of the previous discs, as well as the world premiere recordings 'L'arrache-Coeur' (composed in 1994 and originally intended as 'Étude no. 14') and 'Four Early Piano Pieces,' from 1941 and thus among the earliest preserved Ligeti pieces."

Artist:	LIGETI, GYORGY
Title:	Requiem
Label:	WERGO (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WER 60045

"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 The finale--calamitous, but strangely withdrawn--represents the composer at his most dramatic.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 Cody

Artist:	LIGETI, GYORGY
Title:	Continuum
Label:	WERGO (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WER 60161

Originally released 1988. "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." Recorded in 1957/58/62/70. Performed by Zsigmond Szathmáry, Antoinette Vischer & Karl-Erik Welin. Features: "Continuum für Cembalo" (1968); "Zehn Stücke für Bläserquintett" (1968); "Artikulation" (1958, elektronische Komposition); "Glissandi" (1957, elektronische Komposition); "Etüden für Orgel" (1967-9); "Volumina für Orgel (1. Fassung)" (1961-2).

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