Ligeti Etudes

[cloches_de_geneve]

Anyone here that has played them?
Which are the 3 easiest, the 3 hardest (It's OK if it's just your subjective judgment).

[nearenough]

I have a CD of them and did not enjoy the music. I did like the piece by him from the film 2001 - A Space Odyssey. If you are interested in further comment I will try and find the disc and play it and let you know any thoughts (if ANY of my comments on this forum seem worthy.)

[cloches_de_geneve]

Sure I am interested in your impressions!
IMO Ligeti managed to take the groundbreaking work of Debussy and Bartok further without falling into the trap of serialism. Instead, he integrated some elements of jazz and of african rhythms, always hypersensitive to issues of tone color and timbre. Fanfares and Arc-en-Ciel are etudes that provide nice examples of this highly original combination.

The latter is probably among the easier of the set:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkGpYoRKvS8

While the former sounds pretty advanced:

[pies]

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[weissenberg2]

Pour Irina (

) does not sound hard but I have never seen the score.

[nearenough]

Thanks for posting the You Tube performances; now I don't have to find the CD. Honestly I'd rather listen to Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff. You have to ask, why does "classical" music attract all these abstract note spinners but pop and similar genres don't degenerate into useless and boring note spinning. OK. there's Coltrane. The first one was unmemorable--I don't wish to play it again; the second provoked me to ask "When does it end."

[n00bhippy]

pour irinia provoked me to think 'man, ligeti sure has some beautiful chord voicings' love the harmonies in white on white, pour irinia, and en suspens especially. the softer side of ligeti