
What Sony abandoned, Teldec has rescued. Cumulatively taken, the ambitious Ligeti Project (formerly known as The Ligeti Edition on Sony) now runs to its ninth
My first encounter with Lucille Chung’s cultivated pianism and individual artistry occurred at her 1996 New York recital debut where she played one of the
As you might suspect from the printed timings, Idil Biret’s recordings of Ligeti’s Etudes Books One and Two are noticeably slower than those by Pierre-Laurent
This is the real raw thing, a live recording of a hot performance–pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard tackling a rangy and demanding program without benefit of retakes
Bartók is the invisible presence on this CD of (mostly) 20th century cello music by Hungarian composers since his stylistic fingerprints are on most of
Erika Haase continues her survey of 20th century piano etudes with early Lutoslawski, late Scriabin, late Debussy, and recent Ligeti (no late period for this
As György Ligeti’s Piano Etudes increase their foothold in the repertoire, more and more young pianists rise to their formidable musical and technical challenges in
The title of this CD is somewhat misleading. It is music of “our time” for the 1960s, when experimental music was in vogue. It seems
An experimental recital, reads the provocative title. The “experiment” is this: The Grau-Schumacher duo program Gyorgy Ligeti’s Three Pieces for Two Pianos not in successive