Mechanical Music


Artist: Gyorgy Ligeti

Label: Sony

Price: $11.95

Year: 1997
Format: CD

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Although Gyorgy Ligeti is best known for his eerie, tonally ambiguous choral and orchestral writing (immortalized in 2001: A Space Odyssey), this collection of works for musical automata--player piano, barrel organ, and metronomes--includes some of his most astonishing music. The player piano pieces are an exhilarating, intensely physical roller-coaster ride through superhuman tempi and dynamic extremes--an intriguing marriage of artifice and human invention. While clearly indebted to the influence of Nancarrow, Ligeti's player piano works are more approachable than Nancarrow's rigorous etudes, revealing the sense of humor that distinguishes Ligeti from his more ponderous contemporaries. Likewise, the controversial prank piece Metronomes foreshadows the phasing experiments of Reich with its intricate cross-rhythms created by metronomes marking time simultaneously at different speeds. Perhaps most fascinating of all are Ligeti's compositions for computer-modified barrel organ--a hand-cranked, calliope-like instrument popular with itinerant musicians in the 1700s.

ARTISTS
Pierre Charial (barrel organ); Francoise Terrioux (metronomes); Jurgen Hocker (player pianos)

TRACKS
Continuum, for harpsichord
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
with Pierre Charial

Hungarian Rock (Chaconne), for harpsichord
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
with Pierre Charial

Capriccio No. 1 for piano
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
with Pierre Charial

Invention for piano
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
with Pierre Charial

Capriccio No. 2 for piano
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
with Pierre Charial

Poème symphonique, for 100 metronomes, 10 performers & 1 conductor
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 1, Sostenuto-Misurato-Prestissimo
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
with Pierre Charial

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 2, Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
with Pierre Charial

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 3, Allegro con spirito
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 4, Tempo de Valse
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 5, Rubato. Lamentoso
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 6, Allegro molto capriccioso
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 7, Contabile, molto legato
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 8, Vivace, Energico
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 9, Béla Bartók in memoriam
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 10, Vivace, Capriccioso
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Musica ricercata, pieces (11) for piano No 11, Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobàldi
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Etudes (8) for piano, Book 2 No 10, Der Zauberlehrling
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Etudes (8) for piano, Book 2 No 9, Vertige
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Etudes (8) for piano, Book 2 No 11, En suspens
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Etudes (8) for piano, Book 2 No 13, L'escalier du diable
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Etudes (8) for piano, Book 2 No 14a, Coloana färä stârsit
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Etudes (8) for piano, Book 2 No 7, Galamb borong
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti with Pierre Charial

Continuum, for harpsichord
Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti
with Pierre Charial

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