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Ensemble Intercontemporain & Matthias Pintscher - Bartok & Ligeti (2015) {2CDs Alpha Classics}

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Ensemble Intercontemporain & Matthias Pintscher - Bartok & Ligeti (2015) {2CDs Alpha Classics}

Ensemble Intercontemporain & Matthias Pintscher - Bartok & Ligeti (2015) {2CDs Alpha Classics}
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© 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France | Alpha 217
Classical / Concerto / Sonata / Modern Composition

Alpha is launching a collaboration with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and its new artistic director, composer-conductor Matthias Pintscher.

This new series will alternate 20th-century landmarks and new works, providing an opportunity to show to advantage the great quality of the EIC musicians in the major masterpieces of the last century and to discover scores by composers of the 21st century.

This 2-CD set is a window into the 20th-century literature. Each work could fairly be considered groundbreaking. First there is Bartók, with the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and Contrasts (commissioned by Benny Goodman). As the liner notes make clear, a young Ligeti took up the torch following Bartók’s death. The three concerti here are an instructive juxtaposition. While the Bartók in this collection still has echoes of Romanticism, there is no doubt listening to the Ligeti that we are in a new musical world.

The Ensemble Intercontemporain delivers in each case. The Ligeti’s atmospheric Cello Concerto emerges from silence, and the distinction between ensemble and soloist is suitably nonexistent. In a collection of exceptional musicians, cellist Pierre Strauch stands out.

Highly recommended.
Ensemble Intercontemporain & Matthias Pintscher - Bartok & Ligeti (2015) {2CDs Alpha Classics}

György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto (1985‑88) has been threatening to transform itself into a modern composition lollipop and I, for one, have been reluctant to be taken along for the ride. Following the relentless pace of invention that marked Ligeti’s 1960s and ’70s advance – Atmosphères to San Francisco Polyphony without too many people noticing the join – the jaunty rhythmic jig and slide-whistle sound effects of the Piano Concerto can be made to sound like Gershwin busking at the circus. But now pianist Hidéki Nagano and the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Matthias Pintscher issue a reminder that Ligeti’s harmonic and rhythmic procedures had certainly evolved; dredge beneath the surface, though, and his gestural language was still dealing with the sonic theatre-of-the-absurd he had staged during his mid-1960s Aventures and Nouvelles aventures.

Ensemble Intercontemporain & Matthias Pintscher - Bartok & Ligeti (2015) {2CDs Alpha Classics}


If anyone still harbours doubts over the viability of the CD, no doubt Alpha Classics will be wanting a word. Everything from the quality of paper (the booklet is printed on a gorgeous waxy paper like ancient parchment to the touch) to the trimly minimalist packaging and the thoughtfully assembled programme has obviously been carefully weighed up. Boulez’s 1994 DG release of Ligeti’s three solo instrumental concertos (also with the Ensemble Intercontemporain) set the terms of the debate, but never have such resolute performances of these pieces been captured with such lucent detail – and if that weren’t enough, Alpha also gives you top-notch versions of Bartók’s Contrasts and Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion to help frame the historical context.

Here, Ligeti’s two late-period concertos (piano and violin) bookend his 1966 Cello Concerto. This concerto begins in silence, but not the voyeuristic silence typical of John Cage. The engineers suddenly open the aperture and you’re dropped ears first into a masterfully balanced, orchestrated silence out of which a single high cello note imperceptibly slips. This performance reminds you that Ligeti coordinates the silence as diligently as he does the notes. And when the narrative crumbles into chattering plops, squeaks and rustlings, we are walked right inside this carefully honed noise. Cellist Pierre Strauch feels in overall control in a way that Nicolas Altstaedt in his recent recording for Neos did not.

Ensemble Intercontemporain & Matthias Pintscher - Bartok & Ligeti (2015) {2CDs Alpha Classics}


As already trailed, Nagano’s take on the Piano Concerto is an instant classic. The physicality of his playing is matched by the orchestral Punch and Judy; listen out near the beginning of the first movement for the way grumbling subterranean murmurs emanating from the general direction of the contrabassoon stoke the ensemble fire, and for the insistent mechanised click-clack of woodblocks. Personally I’ve always found Ligeti’s Violin Concerto the most illusive of his late-period works. But Pintscher keeps the unfolding structural narrative rigid (as opposed to Christina Åstrand and Thomas Dausgaard’s weirdly perfumed, romanticised 2000 recording) – which, just as in the Piano Concerto, allows Ligeti’s fantasy to roam free and wild. Review filed, I’m off to have another listen, this time for pure pleasure.
Ensemble Intercontemporain & Matthias Pintscher - Bartok & Ligeti (2015) {2CDs Alpha Classics}


Works on This Recording & Personnel:
1.
Concerto for Violin by György Ligeti

Performer: Jeanne-Marie Conquer (Violin)
Conductor: Matthias Pintscher
Orchestra/Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1991-1993
2.
Concerto for Piano by György Ligeti

Performer: Hidéki Nagano (Piano)
Conductor: Matthias Pintscher
Orchestra/Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1985-1988
3.
Concerto for Cello by György Ligeti

Conductor: Matthias Pintscher
Orchestra/Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1966; Vienna, Austria
4.
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, Sz 110 by Béla Bartók

Performer: Samuel Favre (Percussion), Dimitri Vassilakis (Piano), Sebastien Vichard (Piano),
Gilles Durot (Percussion)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1937; Budapest, Hungary
5.
Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Sz 111 by Béla Bartók

Performer: Diego Tosi (Violin), Sebastien Vichard (Piano), Jerome Comte (Clarinet)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1938; Budapest, Hungary

tracklist:
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01 - Bela Bartok - Contrasts, Sz. 111 - I. Verbunkos
02 - Bela Bartok - Contrasts, Sz. 111 - II. Piheno
03 - Bela Bartok - Contrasts, Sz. 111 - III. Sebes
04 - Bela Bartok - Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110 - I. Assai lento - Allegro molto
05 - Bela Bartok - Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110 - II. Lento, ma non troppo
06 - Bela Bartok - Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110 - III. Allegro non troppo

CD2
01 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - I. Vivace molto ritmico e preciso
02 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - II. Lento e deserto
03 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - III. Vivace cantabile
04 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - IV. Allegro risoluto, molto ritmico
05 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - V. Presto luminoso, fluido, costante, sempre molto ritmico
06 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra - I. Quarter Note = 40
07 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra - II. (Lo stesso tempo) Quarter Note = 40
08 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - I. Praeludium
09 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - II. Aria, hoquetus, choral
10 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - III. Intermezzo
11 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - IV. Passacaglia
12 - Gyorgy Ligeti - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - V. Appassionato

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Ensemble Intercontemporain & Matthias Pintscher - Bartok & Ligeti (2015) {2CDs Alpha Classics}