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Ligeti: Etudes - Messiaen: Vingt Regards (Selections) / Banfield

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Composer
LIGETI MESSIAEN
Artist
Gyorgy Ligeti
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Wergo
Released
Oct 01, 1987
Catalog #
WER60134-50
UPC
4010228613421

About

This is an excellent introduction to the piano music of two of the 20th century's greatest composers. Gyorgy Ligeti's stock has only risen since his death, and much of his repulation rests on his formidable ETUDES, one of the few recently composed piano works to enter the active repertory of contemporary players. Ligeti doesn't have a method and belongs to no particular movement or school; he creatively exploited the vocabulary of postwar classical music to hone a very particular voice of his own--expressive, humorous, vivid, grotesque, sometimes macabre.
Like Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen was liberated by the harmonic freedom of modern music to forge a highly personal, even eccentric path--in his case to express and celebrate the awesome presence of God in nature. (He is perhaps the most traditionally Roman Catholic of any major composer, although that is just about the only conservative thing about him.) Far from serene, his music bursts with color and dissonance, and can be violent and terrifying in nature. The piano cycle VINGT REGARDS SUR L'ENFANT-JESUS is quintessential Messaien, and the pianist Volker Banfield gives these excerpts a fluent reading with plenty of splash.

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Désordre 02:45
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Désordre
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    György Ligeti
    Performer
    Volker Banfield
  2. 2 No. 2. Cordes à vide 02:45
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Cordes à vide
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    György Ligeti
    Performer
    Volker Banfield
  3. 3 No. 3. Touches bloquees 01:40
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Touches bloquees
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    György Ligeti
    Performer
    Volker Banfield
  4. 4 No. 4. Fanfares 03:25
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Fanfares
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    György Ligeti
    Performer
    Volker Banfield
  5. 5 No. 5. Arc-en-ciel 03:40
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Arc-en-ciel
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    György Ligeti
    Performer
    Volker Banfield
  6. 6 No. 6. Automne a Varsovie 04:45
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Automne a Varsovie
    Duration
    04:45
    Composer
    György Ligeti
    Performer
    Volker Banfield
  7. 7 No. 13. Noel 04:05
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 13. Noel
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Volker Banfield
  8. 8 No. 11. Premiere Communion de la Vierge 06:40
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 11. Premiere Communion de la Vierge
    Duration
    06:40
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Volker Banfield
  9. 9 No. 16. Regard des prophetes, des bergers et des mages 02:30
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 16. Regard des prophetes, des bergers et des mages
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Volker Banfield
  10. 10 No. 17. Regard du silence 05:40
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 17. Regard du silence
    Duration
    05:40
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Volker Banfield
  11. 11 No. 10. Regard de l'esprit de joie 07:35
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 10. Regard de l'esprit de joie
    Duration
    07:35
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Volker Banfield