Ligeti - String Quartet No. 2
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Here is another relatively new quartet plunging into the recording fray with 'high-end' repertory and reaping the rewards of their apparent fearlessness...the recordings have the conviction... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Chamber Music Recording
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This thrilling new release of the Transylvanian composer’s music for string quartet embraces three contrasting periods of his output...These players, who have specialised in modern music since... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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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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Cantante e tranquillo
András Keller, Zsófia Környei (violin), Zoltán Gál (viola), Judit Szabó (cello), János Pilz (violin - 3, 5, 6, 7, 8), Ottó Kertész (cello - 3, 7), Alexei Lubimov (piano - track 5)
Keller Quartett
it's all expertly played, even if the Bach is more Romantic in its use of vibrato than might be expected nowadays. —
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The Dudok Quartet responds brilliantly to all [the] facets of Ligeti’s persona, and their performance can fully stand comparison with the Arditti Quartet’s 1994 recording, which was supervised... —
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The abandon with which the Bélas dig into their strings at the beginning of the First Quartet - just listen to them go! - tells us we're in for gutsy, soulful playing. This isn't cerebral,... —
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Special offer. Dvořák, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Piazzolla...
Artemis Quartet (string quartet), Thomas Kakuska (viola), Valentin Erben (cello), Jacques Ammon (piano), Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Eckart Runge (cello), Natalia Prischepenko (violin), Volker Jacobsen (viola), Heime Müller (violin)
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Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Matt Haimovitz & Pierre Boulez
Hagen Quartett, LaSalle Quartet, Ensemble Intercontemporain & London Sinfonietta, David Atherton
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