classical music: aimard     classical music:     Aimard      György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) - Pierre-Laurent Aimard Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre-Laurent Aimard Sony, 1997 Perfect Ligeti. The own György Ligeti was asked about who was the pianist more complete in his piano works; he talked about Pierre-Laurent Aimard, whose a close relation with the XXth Century music is very well known (Boulez, Messiaen, Berg, Schönberg, Carter...) all around the world. ...             Bartok: Concertos Bartok, Boulez Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 A great installment to cap Boulez's Bartok cycle These are such sterling performances, full of vitality and inspiration, that Boulez's Brtok cycle could hzrdly come to a better conclusion. In all honesty, the three works gathered here are also-rans. I wouldn't have bothered under ordinry circumstances to own more ...             Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus Olivier Messiaen, Pierre-Laurent Aimard Teldec, 2000 Indescribably Beautiful My concert-going days go back to hearing Artur Schnabel in 1947, and when I say that a recital I heard a year ago by Pierre-Laurent Aimard in which he played five of the 'Vingts Regards' is among the greatest musical experiences I've ever had, it is against that ...             Bach: Art of Fugue Bach, Pierre-Laurent Aimard Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 Satisfactory... . This new release of Bach's Art of Fugue is good; adequate; satisfactory. I do hope people will enjoy it, and that it may be a good introduction to esoteric art. Bach's recherché Art of Fugue is cerebral, purely abstract art which can really only be fully ...             György Ligeti Edition 6: Keyboard Works (Piano, Harpsichord, Organ) - Irina Kataeva / Pierre-Laurent Aimard / ... Gyorgy Ligeti, Elisabeth Chojnacka, ... Sony, 1997 brilliant music just listen to the five pieces for piano four hands, and you will know what i'm talking about. I'm going to try and get all this editions of ligeti.             Hommage a Messiaen: 8 Preludes; Selection from: Quatre Etudes de rythme Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Messiaen Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 Super performances With the centenary of his birth approaching in December 2008, there has been a lot of work by Messiaen performed recently. I know it makes me an apostate to say this, but I remain reserved about the greatness of this composer, finding some of his Catholic mysticism ...             Complete Webern Anton von Webern, Clemens Hagen, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2000 5 Star music. Some very good performances, some are aimless. Webern's music demonstrates a level of craft, in which few composers ever contend. The more that I listen to the works of Webern, the more I hear that each note must be just as it is. There is nothing wasted in this music. The expression is never vague, always intense. ...             Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Susan Graham, ... Warner Classics, 2004 It takes a Frenchman to capture an American masterpiece! The "Concord Sonata" of Charles Ives has been described as "the greatest work written by an American." It's a big sprawling, glorious mess of a thing, inspired by the Transcendental writers Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott and Thoreau. I first heard the ground-breaking ...             Bach Violin Concertos & Gubaidulina ?In Tempus Praesens' Bach, Gubaidulina, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 "In tempus praesens" -- a triumph for Sofia and Anne-Sophie! "I am a religious person...and by 'religion' I mean re-ligio, the re-tying of a bond...restoring the legato of life. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occupation than the recomposition of spiritual integrity through the composition of music." ...             Bach Fugues Eugene Drucker, Philip Setzer, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 A Very "Classical" Reading... . The Emerson here has purposefully chosen a very Haydnesque Classical mode of expression instead of attempting a more Beethovenian Romantic approach--(Haydn: very thin and airy; Beethoven: much bark and bite). For example, the great b-minor Fugue (S.869) here ...             György Ligeti Edition 4: Vocal Works (Madrigals, Mysteries, Aventures, Songs) - The King's Singers / ... Gyorgy Ligeti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, ... Sony, 1997 where's the dead weight? This is an amazing disc, one of the best in Sony's monumental Ligeti Edition series. On Sony's Ligeti Edition 4, the _Nonsense Madrigals_ were premiered. These six pieces for six voices, composed in the late-80s/early-90s, are some of the composer's finest ...             Messiaen: Turangalîla - Symphonie / Nagano, Aimard, Kim Olivier Messiaen, Kent Nagano, ... Teldec, 2001 Nagano Sets the New Standard! There are simply few words that can describe the absolute magnificence of this recording. Nagano assembles this vast mosaic in the most masterful way I can imagine. It is at once breathtaking and orgiastic! The Berlin Philharmonic is playing at their highest ...             The Ligeti Project I: Melodien / Chamber Concerto / Piano Concerto / Mysteries of the Macabre - Schönberg ... Gyorgy Ligeti, ASKO Ensemble, ... Teldec, 2001 A Brilliant Recording of Some of Ligeti's Finest Works The music of György Ligeti is enjoying much performance success these days as works by the master are appearing more often on the season repertoires of the major orchestra. This superb recording, the first in the excellent survey series of Ligeti's music, opens the ...             Bach: Die Kunst der Fugue Johann Sebastian Bach, Tatiana Nikolayeva Hyperion UK, 1993 Best of the best I own about a dozen performances of The Art of Fugue (ranging from solo piano and organ over string quartet to Hermann Scherchen's orchestral arrangement). This is hands down my favorite (Scherchen's a distant second). Glenn Gould's might have been equally good if he ...             Arnold Schoenberg: Suite, Op. 29, for 2 Clarinets, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano / Verklärte ... Ensemble InterContemporain, Arnold Schoenberg, ... Sony, 1993 5-Stars Just for being in Print... . With the dearth of Schoenberg recordings, gotta give this CD 5-stars simply for being in print. Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemporain are great. The disc has the Verklärte Nacht curse--that is, nearly every Schoenberg CD has Verklärte Nacht on it! 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