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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | October 1st 20 |
No stringed instruments were harmed in the recording process. As you'd expect, a lovely, but quite scary and somewhat chaotic piece from Ligeti, going from frozen string dissonances, to relatively conventional sections, to 'riffy' Rite of Spring-esque sections. While scary and deliciously epileptic, I found this perhaps less atmospheric than some of his other pieces. It is still delightful to discover all the ways Ligeti keeps finding to torture the instruments to scare us and surprise us as the piece goes, and it is very much an enjoyable and eventful listen. There are some really fantastic bits but not always, and because the version I listened to (Ralf Ehlers - Arditti quartet) had the whole piece on one track with no separation it is a bit tough to refer to it. A piece for appreciators of the genre, perhaps not a first choice for those who seek to discover it though. 4.0
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| 4.0 excellent | ZIG | September 19th 18 |
Ligeti's early works can be somewhat of a 'double edged sword'. Maybe not essential, but still a fantastic piece.
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| 4.0 excellent | Greem | May 3rd 16 |
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