Gyorgy Ligeti: Violin Concerto / Per Norgard: Violin Concerto "Light Night", Sonata for Violin Solo "The Secret Melody" - Christina Astrand, Thomas Dausgaard, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (1999)
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Christina Astrand (more information at: http://www.copenhagenartists.dk/artists/c__strand/biography) plays a Stradivari from 1705.
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thanks you, my friend!
Hi SD! What a pleasure to see you here! The Ligeti concerto is really stunningly beautiful. Let me know what you think about it!
Thank you very much for this post I like both composers so I think it will be a great record !!! I was looking forward for more Norgard so extra-thanks!!!
Thank you for the recommendation, Cham! I'll give it a try. :)
Great Rho! Let me know how you like it! And btw: I don' t know if you are familiar with Ligeti' s piano music. I am not a specialist, but the few things I heard are very good, at least to my ears. If you are interested I can provide them to you.
Thanks, Cham, I had an enjoyable evening with this... I do know Ligeti in general, but I'm not a big listener because, for me, Ligeti falls into our present mode of "Impact" over "Discourse"... going on throughout (post)modernism... I can have a lot of pure aesthetic pleasure from going to a concert or listening to a disk like this, but I find that I don't engage with it any further... Put it this way - this music has reached such a zenith of absolute virtuosity/professionalism/abstraction that it can only be a kind of "firework display" - amazing, but beyond discussion in a way (apart from a tiny few absolute devotees/music students who may tease or be forced to tease some analysis out of it). Or put it this way - it has moved out of the frame of reference, in a way that, say, Schnittke, Part, Glass, Reich etc. have not... I think this will remain outstanding and astounding music, but it's almost like I can't locate it with any of my other musical experiences... Anyway, those are my off-the-cuff comments today :) Maybe I'll think different tomorrow :)
I have meditated a reply to your post, based on the little bit I've heard by Ligeti, but realize I don' t know enough about contemporary music to debate with you.
I listen to music that sounds "musical" to me, whatever that means (superficially pleasant to my ears, even in the warped ways of contemporary music). On one hand it does seem to me that some of Ligeti's works are interesting tries leading to dead ends (meaning that you can' t really "build" on his production in an evolutionary sense, like you can't build much on Malevich' s 'Square'). This applies to those of his compositions who bring a certain aspect of music, or of a musical instruments to itheir extremes.
He does, however, also confront the classical forms (quartets, concerti, sonatas etc.), providing his own output, which, in the absence of widely accepted paradigms which has been the only ruling paradigm since Schoenberg is in itself a statement in this debate among people who speak a thousand different languages.
I think we can be grateful to Ligeti for showing us those extremes, even if they are a supernova that destoys everything before a new line of creation can begin again elsewhere. Rather than "musical" I would say he gives me a pure sense of awe. "Musical" I associate with beauty, whereas "Awe" is the rush of the sublime, where beauty and ugliness crash together and are annihilated...
Now, before we scare off all your readers, I'll just say thanks for the ride and jump off... :) I've listened to dozens of Chopin sonatas, the Ligeti Violin concerto and four other albums in the last few days! I need a break! :)
Wow Rho! You sure know how to write graphically! And yes: there' s definitely a cosmic sense to many of Ligeti' s compositions, which the great Kubrick had sensed waaay back....it is not the kind of harmony of the spheres of Bach's concerto for two violins (a harmonic, stationary newtonian vision of the whole), but rather a violent place, populated by quasars, supernovas, asteroids and black holes, engaged in a titanic cosmic struggle which contemplates big bangs and crunches as possible outcomes. Have a nice week end!
We should be making music videos for Ligeti compositions you and I, my friend... :-) Does everyone share our astronomical synaesthesia??
Stanley Kubrick used to, since heused Ligeti' s music in the soundrack of "2001: a Space Odissey". We're in good company Rho!
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