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Tim Mangan: The ocarinas in Ligeti's Violin Concerto.
Archive 2007-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Tim Mangan: The ocarinas in Ligeti's Violin Concerto.
Gold stars and red pen Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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The composer he mentioned is György Ligeti but his not Polish, he was born in Romania.
One Twilighter’s 2009 Wish List For Robert Pattinson » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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György Ligeti Stockholm, Sweden, 1978Opening with a blast of four car horns, Ligeti's farce is mercurial, fast moving and eclectic.
Top 50 operas 2011
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In truth, Ross can be so warmly enthusiastic about innovative musicmaking that he leaves you willing to try even the most arcane composers, people who make Gyorgy Ligeti and Philip Glass look like Handel and Bach.
Michael Dirda reviews "Listen to This," by music critic Alex Ross Michael Dirda 2010
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Perhaps these gifted young composers managed to hear the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's bravura performance of the Hamburg Concerto, the final work by a master of the European avant garde, György Ligeti 1923-2006.
LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review 2012
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I was thinking 100 years to get to Miles Davis, Wyatt and Ravel, 1,000 to reach Ligeti and Kagel, 2,000 years to reach Webern and 3,500 years to reach the hyper-aware, energetically precise experimental German composer Helmut Lachenmann, one of the most original composers of the 20th century.
Paul Morley on music Paul Morley 2010
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I can't imagine dumping my Gyorgi Ligeti requiem, Japanese pressing of The Sky's Gone Out or any Harmonia Mundi - just because I bought it 20 years ago.
Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010
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From its inception, Minimalism was adaptable less to the compact utterance of postwar serial composers like Györgi Kurtág and Györgi Ligeti, but seemed instead to generate and celebrate large, formal architecture.
Bruckner in a New Light Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Just as Prokofiev created his music against political odds, so Ligeti left his Hungarian homeland after the 1956 uprising, having been forced to hide his more experimental works from censoring communist eyes.
LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review 2012
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