Ligeti - Etudes pour piano
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Label: Wergo
Cat No: WER67632
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 3rd December 2012
Contents
Works
Etudes pour piano, Book 1 (nos 1-6)Etudes pour piano, Book 2 (nos 7-14)
Etudes pour piano, Book 3 (nos 15-18)
Artists
Thomas Hell (piano)Works
Etudes pour piano, Book 1 (nos 1-6)Etudes pour piano, Book 2 (nos 7-14)
Etudes pour piano, Book 3 (nos 15-18)
Artists
Thomas Hell (piano)About
Ligeti had various reasons for these compositions, including the fact that he wanted to revive a great musical tradition and to explore its potential in a contemporary form. Furthermore, he liked to play the piano himself, although with “inadequate pianistic technique”, as he once remarked. Apparently, it was sufficient to create some of the most difficult works for piano in the entire piano repertoire: "The anatomical situation of my hands and the configuration of the piano keyboard determined the products of my imagination".
His piano etudes have also to be seen in the context of his admiration for the great piano literature from Bach to Debussy. They are exercises in polyphonic writing and playing technique, with polyphony here having to be understood in a considerably expanded sense. For Ligeti’s piano writing is not only polyphonic in the customary sense, but also polyrhythmic, poly-temporal, and even poly-ethnic (he uses material from very different European and non-European musical cultures – from the Balkans via Africa to Asia).
In the end, his piano etudes are considerably more than mere technical exercises. Each piece is a poetic miracle, transcending its given musical and technical tasks.
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