Requiem / Aventures - Nouvelles Aventures
composer: György Ligeti
interpreter: Liliana Poli - William Pearson - Marie-Thérèse Cahn - Gertie Charlent - Barbro Ericson
booklet writer: Harald Kaufmann
choir: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
chorus master: Wolfgang Schubert
conductor: Michael Gielen - Bruno Maderna
orchestra/ensemble: Internationales Kammerensemble Darmstadt - hr-Sinfonieorchester
Publisher: Wergo
Edition: CD
Order number: WER 60045-50
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György Ligeti's "Requiem" for soprano, mezzo-soprano, two mixed choirs and orchestra is one of his most impressive compositions - especially, when directed by Michael Gielen - and at the same time "the" requiem of the 20th century: Sound which is chromatically layered moves gradually from the lower registers to the higher, thus changing from mourning sounds into the promise of the eternal light. In the Kyrie the polyphonic net which was previously static begins to move gently.
It was a part of this composition that Stanley Kubrick used to accompany the discovery of the monolith in "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Also on this WERGO disc are two other essential works, "Aventures" and "Nouvelles Aventures", highly theatrical and justly celebrated choral works.
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