Concertos, Cello Concertos, Ligeti (composer)
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Bleuse draws playing of greater spontaneity if only slightly less precision than Pierre Boulez in that previous EIC recording of the Chamber Concerto...this is a persuasive means for getting... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Ligeti - Clear or Cloudy
RecommendedMatt Haimovitz, Jacques Zoon, Douglas Boyd, Richard Hosford, James Sommerville, Matthew Wilkie, Claudio Abbado, Helmut Franz, Gerd Zacher, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Håkan Hardenberger, Roland Pöntinen, Jacques Zoon & Douglas Boyd, Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky, Gianluca Cascioli, Pierre-Laurent...
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Boulez conducts Ligeti
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Saschko Gawriloff (violin)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
The Violin Concerto (1992) is music by a composer fascinated with Shakespeare's The Tempest: indeed, it might even prove to be a substitute for Ligeti's longmooted operatic version of the play.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Contemporary
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Walton's Cello Concerto is like a bottle of vintage wine from the composer's home on the Italian island of Ischia… its warmth, finesse and wry serenity are qualities that appeal all the more... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Bartók & Ligeti: Ensemble Intercontemporain
Jérôme Comte (clarinet), Diego Tosi (violin) & Sébastien Vichard (piano), Gilles Durot, Samuel Favre (percussions) & Dimitri Vassilakis, Sébastien Vichard (pianos), Hidéki Nagano (piano), Pierre Strauch (cello), Jeanne-Marie Conquer (violin)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher
Others may have taken the opening Vivace of Ligeti's Piano Concerto at more of a lick, but the precision here packs a punch, and there's a sheer sense of fun as the final two movements develop... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Ligeti: Concertos
RecommendedChristian Poltéra (cello), Joonas Ahonen (piano)
BIT20 Ensemble, Baldur Brönnimann
what comes across in all this music is [Ligeti's] unerring ear for colour and harmony. The performances by Baldur Brönnimann and the Norwegian BIT20 Ensemble are brilliant throughout. An indispensable... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The Ligeti Project Volumes 1-5
RecommendedLigeti Project, Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Peter Masseurs (trumpet), Siegfried Palm (cello), Daniel Reuss (director), Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Katalin Károlyi (mezzo-soprano), Amadinda Percussion Group (percussion), Sybille Mahni (natural horn), Thomas Bernstein (natural horn), Simon...
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
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Sir Simon Rattle & Sol Gabetta
Recorded live at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, 2014, directed by Torben Schmidt Jacobsen
Sol Gabetta (cello)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle’s presence can be heard, and felt, in virtually every bar of the score: the way he moulds phrases, nudges details to the fore, bends the line, holds tight to a salient accompanying detail... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2017, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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New. Queen Elisabeth Competition: Cello 2026
Ettore Pagano, Tae-Yeon Kim, Álvaro Lozano Cames, Leland Ko, Clara Dietlin, Antoine de Grolée, Maria Zaitseva, Maria Zaitseva Sr, Krzysztof Michalski, Sarah Zajtmann, Adria Ye, Lionel Martin, Dilshod Narzillaev, Andrew Ilhoon Byun, Ivan Sendetsky, Thomas Hoppe, Yo Kitamura, Belgian National Orchestra,...
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Erling Blöndal Bengtsson: The Danish Radio Recordings, Vol. 1
Erling Blöndal Bengtsson & Claus Myrup, Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, Claus Myrup
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Michael Schønwandt, Jan Latham-Koenig, Diego Masson, Miltiadis Caridis, Alexander Lazarev
The Concerto opens about as quietly as is possible before rising and falling to climaxes of varying intensity. —
