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Bartók & Ligeti: From Microcosm to Macrocosm [Pure DSD]

László Borbély

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From Microcosm to Macrocosm Listening to Bartók and Ligeti’s works in this selection, we can expect a ‘cosmic disorientation’, a total reinterpretation of all our knowledge thanks to Bartók and Ligeti’s ‘microcosm’ and ‘macrocosm’.

Although Bartók’s Mikrokosmos series of more than one hundred and fifty smaller and larger works was originally written with a pedagogical purpose – for no other reason than to support his own son Peter’s piano studies – it is the essence of his music, and anyone who wishes to study Bartók’s oeuvre in the depth it deserves should begin with these works, since they offer the inexhaustible inexhaustibility of Bartók’s inspiration. In this program, which provides a coherent link between the works of Bartók and Ligeti, we will hear twelve movements of Mikrokosmos.

György Ligeti’s Études are of a difficulty that is a challenge to the human spirit, and are comparable in virtuosity to (concert) etudes by the great romantic composers (and often exceed them in difficulty). Ligeti cites Chopin and Liszt as his main sources of inspiration, as well as a number of Far Eastern influences (such as gamelan music) and African tribal music, and the music and art of Conlon Nancarrow and Thelonious Monk. He particularly emphasises the experience of touch and the ‘moment of danger’ experienced by the performer. Eight of Ligeti’s three-volume series of Études are heard in this programme, in which the author is represented not only by the Études but also by the early Musica Ricercata, with four pieces from the cycle; the Hungarian-influenced No. 5 (Lamentoso), the Balkan folk music No. 8 (Vivace), the 9th (Béla Bartók in memoriam) and the 11th (Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi), which pays tribute to the Italian Baroque master Girolamo Frescobaldi.

László Borbély, Piano

 

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1.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 5 BB105 No.126 Change of Time
00:40
2.
Ligeti: Études Book 3 No. 15 – White on White
05:18
3.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 5 BB105 No.143 Divided Arpeggios
02:25
4.
Ligeti: Études Book 1 No. 4 – Fanfares
03:45
5.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 5 BB105 No.140 Free Variations
01:45
6.
Ligeti: Études Book 1 No. 2 – Cordes à vide / Empty strings
03:29
7.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 4 BB105 No.109 From the Island of Bali
02:20
8.
Ligeti: Études Book 2 No. 7 – Galamb borong
02:53
9.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 4 BB105 No.107 Melody in the Mist
01:37
10.
Ligeti: Musica Ricercata No.5 (Rubato. Lamentoso)
02:59
11.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 5 BB105 No.135 Perpetuum Mobile
01:17
12.
Ligeti: Musica Ricercata No.8 (Vivace. Energico)
01:00
13.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 5 BB105 No.146 Ostinato
02:23
14.
Ligeti: Études Book 1 Étude No. 1 – Désordre / Disorder
02:29
15.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 4 BB105 No.113 Bulgarian Rhythm I. (Transcription of Bartók's recordin
01:11
16.
Ligeti: Études Book 2 No. 12 – Entrelacs / Interlacing
03:00
17.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 4 BB105 No.101 Diminished Fifths
01:08
18.
Ligeti: Études Book 1 No.5 – Arc-en-ciel / Rainbow
03:53
19.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 4 BB105 No. 97 Notturno
02:25
20.
Ligeti: Musica Ricercata No.9 – Béla Bartók in memoriam
02:40
21.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 5 BB105 No.129 Alternating Thirds
00:57
22.
Ligeti: Musica Ricercata No.11 – Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi
03:38
23.
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book 6 BB105 No.147 March
02:04
24.
Ligeti: Études Book 1 No.6 – Automne à Varsovie / Autumn in Warsaw
04:30

Total time: 00:59:46

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Release DateNovember 4, 2024

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