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Venues Ligeti (born 1923)- Concerto for violin and orchestra
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Ligeti has been generous in giving instrumental players concertos, within BBC Proms
About the and apart from his Concerto romanesque (1951) and Chamber Events by the week
Festival Concerto (1969–70), which are orchestral concertos, he has, so far, Listen Online
written five: the Cello Concerto (1966); the Double Concerto for Beginners Guide
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Music flute, oboe and orchestra (1972); the Piano Concerto (1985–8); the elsewhere on BBCi
Violin Concerto (1989–92); and the Hamburg Concerto for horn and Composer Profiles
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The Violin Concerto was written for Saschko Gawriloff, who had
played the very demanding violin part in Ligeti’s Horn Trio (1982).
The Horn Trio was a key work in Ligeti’s development: it renewed a
sense of tradition, and had a formal grandeur as well as an
About the BBC expressive depth which spelt out ‘Classic’. Ligeti had dropped
anchor. Or had he? For he had by no means closed his mind to new
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and not-so-new influences from near and far, nor given up technical
innovations: on the one hand, in rhythm and counterpoint –
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explored rigorously in on-going series of piano Etudes – and, on the
other, in tuning and harmony.
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The player-piano studies of Conlon Nancarrow 1912–97), with their
crazy contrapuntal complications, the musics of the Far East, Africa,
and Latin America, the pioneering work of Harry Partch (1901–76)
and his ‘home-made’ instruments, the weird, quasi-exotic
incantations of Claude Vivier (1948–83) – all these have been grist
to Ligeti’s mill.
By contrast, the soloist plays dead in tune! And her part demands
breath-taking skill.
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