Metamorphosis Ligeti
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GYORGY LIGETI
Metamorphosis Ligeti
Quatuor Diotima
[ Pentatone / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 26 May 2023
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Quatuor Diotima makes its Pentatone debut with a recording of Györgi Ligeti's string quartets. While the second quartet from 1968 is an avantgarde classic, the first from 1953-54, "Metamorphoses nocturnes", is often nicknamed Bartók's seventh quartet, pointing out the continuity between these two Hungarian master composers. Despite moments of nostalgia, it already possesses the ferocious, adventurous nature of the later quartet. In-between these two iconoclast works, the Andante and Allegretto from 1950 offers an intimate moment of repose. The members of Diotima long postponed recording Ligeti's string quartets, intimidated by their music-historical significance and the demands they place on the players, but now the time has come to pursue this fascinating project and share it with the world.
Quatuor Diotima is one the most in-demand chamber ensembles in the world today, and has worked in close collaboration with several of the greatest composers of the late twentieth century. Reflected in the mirror of today's music, the quartet projects a new light onto the masterpieces of the 19th and 20th centuries.
"They make enormous technical and musical demands, and the performances by the Quatuor Diotima meet their challenges with more accuracy and brilliance than any I've heard before. Every detail of the string writing, all informed by Ligeti's phenomenal aural imagination, is crystal clear, the shape of each movement utterly lucid" The Guardian
BBC Music Chamber Pick April 2023
Tracks:
György Ligeti (1923-2006)
String Quartet No. 1, "Métamorphoses nocturnes" (1953-1954)
1) I. Allegro grazioso 01:28
2) II. Vivace, capriccioso 01:51
3) III. Adagio, mesto 02:13
4) IV. Presto 01:08
5) V. Prestissimo 01:24
6) VI. Andante tranquillo 03:12
7) VII. Tempo di Valse, moderato, con eleganza, un poco capriccioso 00:52
8) VIII. Subito prestissimo 01:31
9) IX. Allegretto, un poco giovale 00:55
10) X. Poco più mosso 01:41
11) XI. Prestissimo 01:34
12) XII. Ad libitum, senza misura 03:15
Andante and Allegretto for String Quartet (1950)
13) I. Andante cantabile 06:29
14) II. Allegretto poco capriccioso 06:48
String Quartet No. 2 (1968)
15) I. Allegro nervoso 04:40
16) II. Sostenuto, molto calmo 04:41
17) III. Come un meccanismo di precisione 03:14
18) IV. Presto furioso, brutale, tumultuoso 01:57
19) V. Allegro con delicatezza 04:57
