Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre / Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra

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Sony Masterworks
Release Date
September 17, 2009
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LIGETI, GYÖRGY
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Philharmonia Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Jard, Lessite, Sibylle, Van Nes, Esa-Pekka, Ehlert, Laura, Salonen, Claycomb
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 17, 2009
    • UPC
      074646231227
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SONY62312
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Opera / Operetta / Oratorio
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Car Horn Prelude

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: London Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    2. Act I: Dies irae

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Laura Claycomb, Charlotte Hellekant, Graham Clark, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    3. Act I: Away, you swagpot

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Graham Clark, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    4. Act I: Shut up

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Graham Clark, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    5. Act I: Oh … ! - Amanda! Can do no more

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Charlotte Hellekant, Jard van Nes, Graham Clark, Steven Cole, Richard Suart, Martin Winkler, Mark Campbell-Griffiths, Michael Lessiter, Sibylle Ehlert, Laura Claycomb, Derek Lee Ragin, Willard White, Frode Olsen

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    6. Act I: Ha-ha-ha-ha! Hey! Give me my requisites

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Graham Clark, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    7. Act I: Melting snow is thy breast

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Laura Claycomb, Charlotte Hellekant

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    8. Act I: Car Hor Prelude

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: London Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    9. Act I: One! Two! Three! Five!

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Frode Olsen

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    10. Act I: Shapley and attractive figure

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Frode Olsen

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    11. Act I: Venus! Venus!

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Frode Olsen

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    12. Act I: Stop! -Sh! … Quiet, for heaven's sake!

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Sibylle Ehlert, Jard van Nes, Graham Clark, Frode Olsen, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    13. Act I: Who's there? A man? - A man!

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Sibylle Ehlert, Jard van Nes, Graham Clark, Frode Olsen, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    14. Act I: Finale: Fire and death I bring

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Graham Clark, Frode Olsen, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    15. Act II: Doorbell Prelude

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: London Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    16. Act II: Arse- licker, arse- kisser!

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Derek Lee Ragin, Steven Cole, Richard Suart

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    17. Act II: Posture exercises!

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Derek Lee Ragin, Steven Cole, Richard Suart

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    18. Act II: Tsk … - Psssst!

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Sibylle Ehlert, Derek Lee Ragin

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    19. Act II: Ahh! … Secret cypher!

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Sibylle Ehlert, Derek Lee Ragin, Steven Cole, Richard Suart

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    20. Act II: Hurray, hurray! My wife is dead

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Derek Lee Ragin, Frode Olsen

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    21. Act II: Nekrotzar's Entrance

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: London Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    22. Act II: Woe! Ooh! - For the day of wrath

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Frode Olsen, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    23. Act II: There's no need to fear

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Graham Clark, Frode Olsen, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    24. Act II: Up!- Drink! - Up!

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Graham Clark, Frode Olsen, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    25. Act II: Hmm! it's delicious!

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Derek Lee Ragin, Graham Clark, Frode Olsen, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    26. Act II: Where am I? What time is it?

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Derek Lee Ragin, Graham Clark, Frode Olsen, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    27. Act II: Interlude

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: London Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    28. Act II: Ghost Astradamors, are you dead?

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Jard van Nes, Derek Lee Ragin, Graham Clark, Steven Cole, Mark Campbell-Griffiths, Richard Suart, Frode Olsen, Martin Winkler, Willard White

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    29. Act II: Mirror Canon

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: London Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    30. Act II: Finale: Ah, it was good

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Sibylle Ehlert, Laura Claycomb, Charlotte Hellekant, Jard van Nes, Derek Lee Ragin, Graham Clark, Steven Cole, Richard Suart, Mark Campbell-Griffiths, Michael Lessiter, Frode Olsen, Martin Winkler

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen


This recording was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for "Best Opera Recording.

György Ligeti's only opera, 'Le Grande Macabre,' after a play by Michel de Ghelderode, concerns itself with nothing less than the end of the world. This is promised by the evil Nekrotzar but, despite dire warnings and ominous foreshadowing, the whole thing is something of a bust and in the end the only casualty is Nekrotzar himself. In between are any number of lascivious and criminal goings-on in fictional Breughelland, a place of infinite corruption, socially, morally and politically (and enormously funny in the bargain). Ligeti's brilliant, delightful, infinitely difficult music ranges from preludes and interludes scored for automobile horns and doorbells to the breathtaking coloratura flights of Gepopo, the soprano chief of the secret police. The performance under Esa-Pekka Salonen is beyond praise.

Volume 8 of Sony's Ligeti Edition presents the revised score of 1997, taken from live performances in Paris. There are numerous changes and the opera is shorter by some ten minutes. The revision also changes the language from German to English. The German original is available on Wergo in a fine performance. The Sony recording preserves a performance of even greater brilliance of what is now one of the great comic operas in English.