György Ligeti Edition 1: String Quartets and Duets - Arditti String Quartet

Description: N N Amazon.com essential recording This is a fine collection of moving, muscular performances by this seminal postwar composer. Surely the best known of the works on this disc is the Second String Quartet, one of the masterpieces of 20th-century music--although you might not know it's a masterpiece until the heartbreaking last movement. But the First String Quartet, written before Ligeti emigrated from Hungary to the West, is fascinating: it shows Ligeti working through the influence of Bartók, particularly Bartók's Third and Fourth Quartets--music Ligeti knew only silently, from the score, since performances of Bartók's mus ... (more)

Manufacturer: Sony
Release date: 26 June 1997
EAN: 0074646230626 UPC: 074646230626

Tags: Contemporary (1), Chamber (1), Ligeti (1)

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