György Ligeti - The Ligeti Project 3

Continuing previous valuable interzone’s uploads of volumes 1, 2 and 4 here is the volume 3.

The Ligeti Project Volume 3 includes:
Cello Concerto (1966) [14’22]
Clocks and Clouds (1973) [14’23]
Violin Concerto (1992) [27’02]
Sippal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel (2000) [11’24]

Siegfried Palm (cello); Frank Peter Zimmerman (violin); Katalina Karolyi (mezzo);
Cappella Amsterdam; Amadinda Percussion Ensemble;
Asko Ensemble; Schoenberg Ensemble
Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)
Rec. Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, 7-9 April 2001, 12-16 September 2001


From Tony Haywood review:

The biggest and most performed item on the disc is undoubtedly the Violin Concerto. This is a magnificent work, one of the most important concertos of the last decade. of the past. This Teldec version features the great Siegfried Palm, a close collaborator of Ligeti over the years and the artist for whom it was written. The Dutch players, under their contemporary specialist conductor, are clearly inspired by the presence of Palm (and, so we understand, the composer) to give of their very best. The result is simply as good as it gets.
The remaining items are invaluable. Here we have the premiere of a work from 1973 that encapsulated his whole compositional ethos up to then, the aptly titled Clocks and Clouds . The piece is scored for 12 female voices and fairly large chamber orchestra. This allows the composer to exploit to the full his two favourite structural devices, "exactly determined (‘clocks’) versus global, statistically measurable (‘clouds’) occurrences of nature".
The final work is Sippal, dobbal…, a setting of verses by Sándor Weöres, whom Ligeti describes as "a unique virtuoso of the Hungarian language … Seven poems are set, and they form a strange mixture of nature, philosophy and childish nonsense verse. Couple this with the scoring (mezzo and four percussionists) and you have what amounts to a quirky vocal entertainment, short, sweet and diverting, in its own way just as memorable and ingenious as his large scale works.
Production values on this third volume are again very high. The recording has stunning clarity and presence, and authoritative liner by the composer.

See full Tony Haywood review here: http://tinyurl.com/LP3-review