Ligeti: Violin Concerto; Lontano; Atmospheres / Schmid, Lintu, Finnish RSO

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Ligeti's works on this disc provide an excellent cross-section of the metamorphosis in his compositional technique over a period of 30 years. The Violin Concerto incorporates influences from Medieval and Renaissance music, from late Romantic music and various contemporary styles.

REVIEWS:

Lintu’s Lontano shimmers with ever-shifting colours, he highlights the awe-inspiring grandeur of Atmosphères, and his gorgeously shaped San Francisco Polyphony is vibrant and lyrical—all matched by Ondine’s rich, warm, detailed recording. And Lintu’s vision has the ideal Violin Concerto soloist in Benjamin Schmid, who manages to make Ligeti’s strange, mischievous writing sound sweetly expressive, even touching. His clear sense of line leads the ear effortlessly through the second movement’s eerie microtonal textures, complete with natural horns and ocarinas, and he has superb articulation and rhythmic bite in the tricksy opening movement.

-- The Strad

The selections on this disc are as good a place as any for the newcomer to this composer to get an appreciation for what is so exciting about Ligeti’s way of expressing himself in music. Schmid[’s]…is a committed performance…Lintu and a reduced Finnish Radio Symphony accompany very well and the sound allows much wonderful detail to come through. The performances…are all worthy in their own right. The programme on this CD would seem to be an ideal place to obtain a good sampling of Ligeti’s music.

-- MusicWeb International



Product Description:


  • Release Date: September 24, 2013


  • Catalog Number: ODE 1213-2


  • UPC: 761195121320


  • Label: Ondine


  • Period: 20th Century


  • Composer: György Ligeti


  • Conductor: Hannu Lintu


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra


  • Performer: Benjamin Schmid



Works:


  1. Lontano

    Composer: György Ligeti

    Ensemble: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Hannu Lintu


  2. Violin Concerto

    Composer: György Ligeti

    Ensemble: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Benjamin Schmid

    Conductor: Hannu Lintu


  3. Atmosphères

    Composer: György Ligeti

    Ensemble: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Hannu Lintu


  4. San Francisco Polyphony

    Composer: György Ligeti

    Ensemble: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra