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String Quartets by Ligeti, Pintscher, Cage, Xenakis / Jack Quartet

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2012-07-17

Works: György Ligeti: Quartet for Strings no 2; Matthias Pintscher: Study no 4 for Treatise on the Veil, for string quartet; John Cage: Quartet for Strings in Four Parts; Iannis Xenakis: Tetras, for st...
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Ensemble: Jack Quartet

Dedicated to performing cutting-edge, up-to-the-minute music, the supremely cool, New York based JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe) and "viscerally...continue...
Recording information: Wigmore Hall, London (07/30/2011)....continue...

20th Century Classics: Ligeti - String Quartets

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-08-10

Works: György Ligeti: Quartet for Strings no 1 ("Métamorphoses nocturnes"); Quartet for Strings no 2; Ramifications, for 12 strings (or string orchestra); Bagatelles (6) for wind quintet; Lux aete...
Conductors: Auriacombe, Louis;
Ensemble: ; Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet

György Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-12-15

Works: György Ligeti: Quartet for Strings no 1 ("Métamorphoses nocturnes"); Quartet for Strings no 2; Movements (2) for string quartet
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Ensemble: Parker Quartet (String Quartet)

Gyorgy Ligeti's choral and orchestral music hit the mainstream when it was featured in the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but his equally remarkable...continue...
Recording information: St. Anne's Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (10/01/2007-10/03/2007)....continue...

Ligeti, Finnissy, Stravinsky - Quartet Choreography / Kreutzer Quartet [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Metier / 2007-09-17

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Pieces (3) for string quartet; Witold Lutoslawski: Quartet for Strings; György Ligeti: Quartet for Strings no 2; Michael Finnissy: Second String Quartet
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Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

This DVD explores the interaction between the members of the Kreutzer Quartet while performing these four 20th century works....continue...
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
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Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy / Boulez, et al

4 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2006-11-14

Works: György Ligeti: Sonata for cello; Bagatelles (6) for wind quintet; Quartet for Strings no 1 ("Métamorphoses nocturnes"); Pieces (10) for wind quintet; Quartet for Strings no 2; Atmosphè...
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Boyd, Douglas; Cascioli, Gianluca; Gawriloff, Saschko; Haimovitz, Matt; Hardenberger, Håkan [Trumpet]; Hosford, Richard; Kontarsky, Alfons; Kontarsky, Aloys; Manning, Ja...
Conductors: ; Abbado, Claudio; Franz, Helmut; Boulez, Pierre; Atherton, David
Ensemble: ; Ensemble InterContemporain; Wiener Blasersolisten

"With the passing of Gyorgy Ligeti on 12 June, 2006 at the age of 83 in Vienna following a lengthy illness, the musical world has...continue...

Ligeti: String Quartets no 1 & 2 / Artemis Quartet

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2005-11-08

Works: György Ligeti: Quartet for Strings no 1 ("Métamorphoses nocturnes"); Quartet for Strings no 2
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Ensemble: Artemis Quartett (String Quartet)

Alain Lanceron, President of Virgin Classics, on the signing of the Artemis Quartet, said, I am very happy to have signed with the Artemis Quartet,...continue...

Echo 20/21 Ligeti: String Quartets, etc / Hagen Quartet

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2003-11-11

Works: György Ligeti: Quartet for Strings no 1 ("Métamorphoses nocturnes"); Quartet for Strings no 2; Ramifications, for 12 strings (or string orchestra); Sonata for cello; Melodien, for orchestra...
Performers: Haimovitz, Matt
Conductors: ; Boulez, Pierre; Atherton, David
Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain; Hagen Quartett; LaSalle Quartet; London Sinfonietta

"Ligeti is not a particularly unfriendly composer to the ears. His ideas are not invariably loud of soft or always dissonant, and the sonorities are...continue...

György Ligeti Edition Vol 1 - String Quartets and Duets

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1997-01-28

Works: György Ligeti: Quartet for Strings no 1 ("Métamorphoses nocturnes"); Quartet for Strings no 2; Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg, for violin & cello; Ballade and Dance, for 2 violins; Moveme...
Performers: Alberman, David; Arditti, Irvine; de Saram, Rohan; Knox, Garth

"...The first quartet, unashamedly inspired by the glories of Bartok's quartets - full of jagged rhythms and rich sombre, unsentimental melody - was written without...continue...

Ligeti: Chamber Concerto, Ramifications, etc / Boulez et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1988-07-01

Works: György Ligeti: Chamber Concerto, for 13 instruments; Ramifications, for 12 strings (or string orchestra); Quartet for Strings no 2; Aventures, for 3 voices & 7 instruments; Lux aeterna, for 16 u...
Performers: Kamnitzer, Peter; Kirstein, Jack; Levin, Walter; Manning, Jane; Meyer, Henry
Conductors: Boulez, Pierre; ; Franz, Helmut
Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain; LaSalle String Quartet; North German Radio Chorus Hamburg