Miklós Lukács Cimbiosis Trio - Responses to Ligeti (2024) Hi-Res

On this album, recorded to celebrate the centenary of György Ligeti’s birth, the Miklós Lukács Cimbiosis Trio and the Ligeti Ensemble respond to the questions raised in Ligeti’s Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet. The collaboration was conceived by Miklós Lukács at the request of BMC, and the two orchestras premiered the work at the Ligeti 100 Festival in May 2023.
The musicians of the Ligeti Ensemble, which was founded by András Keller and Zoltán Rácz, and operates under the auspices of Concerto Budapest, play the challenging Ten pieces for Wind Quintet, which is answered by the Miklós Lukács Cimbiosis Trio, blurring the thin line between contemporary music and jazz. Rather than arranging Ligeti’s pieces, the Cimbiosis Trio sought ways to engage in a dialogue with the music, by the means of preludes and postludes, the musical elaboration of different moods and colours, and sometimes the dimension-changing power of interplay.
Miklós Lukács is one of the most employed artists of BMC Records, presenting a unique fusion of jazz, contemporary classical music, improvisation, and folk music. With his Cimbiosis Trio, he has already been moving more and more decisively from jazz and folk to contemporary music.
Csaba Klenyán, solo clarinettist of Concerto Budapest, has also been associated with BMC since the beginning of his career, recording two albums as a member of the Lignum Trio, and frequently performing on albums by Hungarian composers, including Péter Eötvös, László Sáry, and László Tihanyi.