HOMMAGE A LIGETI – REQUIEM (Ligeti) Budapest 2014 Íride Martínez, Zsófia Kálnay, Katalin Károlyi
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Requiem
- Composer: Ligeti György
- Libretto: traditional
- Venue & Opera Company: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, müpa, Budapest, Hungary
- Recorded: May 7, 2014
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Íride Martínez, Zsófia Kálnay, Katalin Károlyi
- Conductor: Zoltán Rácz
- Orchestra: Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble
- Chorus: MR Choir, Hungarian National Choir
- Chorus Master: Gábor Oláh, Mátyás Antal
- Stage Director:
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Information about the Recording
- Published by: müpa
- Date Published: 2014
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Ligeti
Hamburg Concerto
Requiem
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Ligeti
Études pour piano, Book 3
With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles
The Requiem by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti is a large-scale choral and orchestral composition, composed between 1963 and 1965.
The work lasts for just under half an hour, and is in four movements: Introitus, a gradual unbroken plane of sound; Kyrie, a complex polyphonic movement reaching a fortissimo climax; Dies Irae, which uses vocal and orchestral extremes in theatrical gestures; and the closing Lacrimosa, for soloists and orchestra only, which returns to the subdued atmosphere of the opening.
Ligeti was commissioned to write a work in 1961 for a series of new-music concerts on Swedish Radio. It was he who suggested a Requiem, and had initially intended to set the full text of the Requiem mass. However, he ultimately decided on setting the composition around half of the original text. Ligeti spent nine months working on the six-minute Kyrie section alone, which featured the most complex polyphony he had ever attempted, featuring twenty vocal lines, although as Harold Kaufmann notes, “it refers back… to the classical vocal polyphony of the old masters”. In particular, it drew for inspiration from the work of Ockeghem, “refracted and multiplied through the technique of micropolyphony.”
He scored the work for large choral forces, featuring two mixed choirs and soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists. The orchestra consists of 3 flutes (2nd and 3rd doubling piccolos), 3 oboes (3rd doubling English horn), 3 clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet, 3rd doubling E-flat and contrabass clarinets), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 French horns, 3 trumpets, bass trumpet, 3 trombones (tenor, bass, contrabass), tuba, percussion (glockenspiel, xylophone, snare drum, bass drum, suspended cymbal, tam-tam, slapstick, and tambourine), celesta, harpsichord, harp, and strings
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