The Hungarian escaped two murderous regimes, wrote pieces to be played on metronomes and car horns, and depicted inner and outer space to Stanley Kubrick. Now, in his centenary year, the Proms will ...

Though to some extent superseded by the complete Ligeti edition that began on Sony Classical and has now been taken up by Teldec, this mixture of 1960s and 1980s recordings contains some important ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a friend and collaborator of Ligeti, is helping the New York Philharmonic observe the centennial of his birth. By ...

Extract from György Ligeti’s Nouvelles Aventures, filmed at the Roundhouse in 1971 From All Clouds are Clocks, the 1976 award-winning Omnibus film on avant-garde Hungarian composer György Ligeti.

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 ...

Conductor Thomas Adès drastically reduced the BSO’s instrumentation to lead Ligeti’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with pianist Kirill Gerstein “I am in a prison,” the composer György Ligeti said ...

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