COMPOSERS: Ligeti
LABELS: Sony
WORKS: Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto; Chamber Concerto for 13 Instrumentalists
PERFORMER: Miklós Perényi (cello), Ueli Wiget (piano)Ensemble Modern/Peter Eötvös
CATALOGUE NO: SK 58945 DDD
Two of these three concertos show characteristic Ligeti, with their long-held notes, bubbling clusters of adjacent semitones, metronome effects and gently fluctuating harmonic ‘clouds’ of sound. The later Piano Concerto’s more conventional, Bartók-inspired language is no less engaging. The members of the Ensemble Modern give highly vivid accounts of all three. The sound, as it needs to be in music such as this, is crystal clear. Matthew Rye
Ligeti: Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto; Chamber Concerto for 13 Instrumentalists
Two of these three concertos show characteristic Ligeti, with their long-held notes, bubbling clusters of adjacent semitones, metronome effects and gently fluctuating harmonic ‘clouds’ of sound. The later Piano Concerto’s more conventional, Bartók-inspired language is no less engaging. The members of the Ensemble Modern give highly vivid accounts of all three. The sound, as it needs to be in music such as this, is crystal clear. Matthew Rye
Published: January 20, 2012 at 2:32 pm