Pierre Charial, Francoise Terrioux, Jurgen Hocker - Gyorgy Ligeti: Ligeti Edition 5 - Mechanical Music (1997)

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Title: Gyorgy Ligeti: Ligeti Edition 5 - Mechanical Music
Year Of Release: 1997
Label: Sony Classical
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 75:20
Total Size: 389 Mb
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Tracklist:

1 Continuum - Prestissimo (3:22)
2 Hungarian Rock - Vivacissimo Molto Ritmico (4:52)
3 Capriccio No. 1 - Allegretto Capriccioso (3:55)
4 Invention - Risoluto (1:23)
5 Capriccio No. 2 - Allegro Robusto (1:43)
6 Poème Symphonique - for 100 Metronomes (19:56)
Musica Ricercata
7 I. Sostenuto - Misurato - Prestissimo (2:13)
8 II. Mesto, Rigido E Cerimoniale (3:19)
9 III. Allegro Con Spirito (1:07)
10 IV. Tempo De Valse (Poco Vivace - "À L'Orgue De Barbarie") (1:52)
11 V. Rubato. Lamentoso (3:46)
12 VI. Allegro Molto Capriccioso (0:55)
13 VII. Cantabile, Molto Legato (2:35)
14 VIII. Vivace. Energico (0:54)
15 IX. (Béla Bartók In Memoriam) Adagio. Mesto - Allegro Maestoso (2:10)
16 X. Vivace. Capriccioso (1:20)
17 XI. (Omaggio A Girolamo Frescobaldi) Andante Misurato E Tranquillo (3:54)
Études Pour Piano
18 X. Der Zauberlehrling - Prestissimo, Staccatissimo, Leggierissimo (2:14)
19 IX. Vertige - Prestissimo Sempre Molto Legato, Sehr Gleichmäßig (1:49)
20 XI. En Suspens - Andante Con Moto, "Avec L'Élégance Du Swing" (1:16)
21 XIII. L' Escalier Du Diable - Presto Legato Ma Leggiero (3:40)
22 XIVa. Coloana Fără Sfârşit - Presto Possibile, Tempestoso Con Fuoco (1:04)
23 VII. Galamb Borong - Vivacissimo Luminoso, Legato Possibile (2:16)
24 Continuum - Prestissimo (3:44)

Performers:
Performer [Metronomes] - Fraçoise Terrioux (track 6)
Arranged By [Adaption] - Francis Bowdery (tracks: 21, 22) , Jürgen Hocker (tracks: 18, 20, 23, 24) , Wolfgang Heisig (tracks: 19)
Organ [Barrel], Arranged By [Adaption] - Pierre Charial (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 17)
Piano [Player] - Jürgen Hocker (tracks: 18 to 24)
Programmed By [Player Piano] - Horst Mohr , Walter Tenten

This volume of Sony's György Ligeti Edition contains all of Ligeti's music either written for mechanical reproduction or arranged for mechanical instruments. Dating from his brief flirtation with the Fluxus movement, "Poéme Symphonique," scored for 100 metronomes, produced one of the great scandals of Ligeti's career. As the metronomes wind down, what sounds like a waning rain storm evolves into overlaying rhythmic patterns and finally a single metronome coming to a halt. From the other end of his career come the etudes arranged for player piano. As the Ligeti's Etudes for Piano were originally inspired by the 'Studies for Player Piano' by Conlon Nancarrow, it is appropriate that they should be transferred to a mechanical instrument. In the case of Etude 14, the original is for player piano and moves nearly twice as fast as when performed by the ad lib living pianist.
The barrel organ works occupy a different category, being, for the most part, arrangements of Ligeti's earliest keyboard music. The effect is of a calliope gone mad. Everywhere the charm and whimsy of Ligeti's muse is in evidence. If Ligeti could ever be said to have written light music it is that contained in this volume.