Ligeti Was… CDs of Old and New Ligeti Recordings
Ligeti Was… CDs of Old and New Ligeti Recordings

Summary/Abstract: Ligeti was… The past tense is hard to accept, no matter how that sentence might have been going to continue. Ligeti was one of the most admired composers we had. Ligeti was one of the very few artists of his generation to gain wide public appreciation. Ligeti was an extraordinary craftsman, a creator of rainbows through time, fantastical and frolicsome. Ligeti was all those things and more, and until the moment of his death, in Vienna last June, the world seemed a little more buoyant for his presence. There had been no new music from him since 2002, when he added a movement to his Hamburg Concerto (with solo horn), but there always might be. Now there will not, and we have to look at an output that is complete.[...]

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