Ligeti 100 / UMZE Ensemble: Adventures with Ligeti

Ligeti 100
UMZE Ensemble: Adventures with Ligeti

Program:

Lukas Ligeti: Dambangoma
Gergely Ittzés – flute
Aurél Holló – percussion

Georg Friedrich Haas: Hommage à György Ligeti
Péter Kiss – piano

Adrian Pop: New work – homage to György Ligeti – commissioned by UMZE

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György Ligeti: Six Bagatelles
György Ligeti: Ten pieces for wind quintet
Orsolya Kaczander – flute
Dániel Ella – oboe
Csaba Klenyán – clarinet
Bálint Mohai – bassoon
Bálint Tóth – horn

György Ligeti: Aventures
György Ligeti: Nouvelles Aventures
Sarah Defrise – soprano
Anna Molnár – mezzo-soprano
Harald Hieronymus Hein – bass-baritone

Featuring:

Gergely Ittzés – flute
Aurél Holló – percussion
Péter Kiss – piano

Sarah Defrise – soprano
Anna Molnár – mezzo-soprano
Harald Hieronymus Hein – bass-baritone
Orsolya Kaczander – flute
Dániel Ella – oboe
Csaba Klenyán – clarinet
Bálint Mohai – bassoon
Bálint Tóth – horn
UMZE Ensemble
Conductor: Gregory Vajda

“We should compose dramatic works that don't require a word-for-word understanding of the text in order to understand what is happening on stage. A text of this kind should not record conceptual implications, but should directly reflect human emotions and behaviours in such a way that the moments and actions on the stage emerge as meaningful despite the lack of conceptual meaning in the text.” Aventures and its sequel, Nouvelles Aventures, create exactly this fictional and artificial language, worked out from vowels and consonants. Ligeti leads us on an adventure through the world of human emotions, from the humorous surface to the terrifying or even mystical depths. This emblematic pair of pieces is accompanied by two of Ligeti's cycles for wind quintet, a work by Lukas Ligeti and two compositions by contemporary composers commemorating Ligeti.