The Spanish string quartet – violinists Vera Martinez and Abel Tomas, violist Jonathan Brown, cellist Arnau Tomas – applied mesmerizing intensity to the score. Every violent, skittish or tipsy turn of ...

In 1954, when it was finished, Gyorgy Ligeti’s String Quartet no. 1 (“Metamorphoses Nocturnes”) satisfied neither side of the style wars. Taking off more or less where Bartok left off, its ...

Hindsight is a treacherous thing, yet it can often be tempting to try to detect the foreshadowings of genius in the early work of a great composer. The temptation was irresistible in the case of ...

The Mendelssohn Octet will end Monday’s concert in Auer Hall, following two contemporary string quartets, one by Shulamit Ran, her Quartet No. 3, “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory” and Gyorgy Ligeti’s ...

It wasn’t planned, but Santa Barbara will open the New Year by hosting a mini-festival of the fascinating music of György Ligeti. On Friday, January 12, at 7:30 p.m., at the Music Academy of the ...

The Jupiter String Quartet announces the June 12, 2020 release of Metamorphosis on Marquis Classics. This album features Beethoven's Quartet Op. 131 and Ligeti's Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes ...

An hour’s worth of Brahms’s chamber music for horn? Almost; we get the familiar Opus 40 Trio here, plus arrangements of the Op 38 Cello Sonata and the Scherzo in C minor. Horn player Alec ...

Oxford Chamber Music Society audiences are made of strong stuff. The Holywell Music Room was packed to capacity for the Ligeti Quartet, even though the programme on offer was decidedly challenging — ...

Gyorgy Ligeti, a musical giant respected for his ability to simultaneously honor and modernize musical traditions and a cult pop figure whose work was used in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” to evoke ...