Ligeti, in good company concert

Our concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of György Ligeti’s birth is an exciting immersion into Ligeti’s music and other compositions related to his music.

Creative Breakthrough is a concept that can be applied to the integral work of György Ligeti. His seminal compositions subvert aesthetic ideas and established patterns that existed in vastly different temporal, geographical and stylistic dimensions. Thus, unrelated, referential ideas form a continuum through Ligeti, and it is through his works that diffuse and diverse concepts emerge as attributes of a new canon.

Conlon Nancarrow’s piece Studies for mechanical piano prompted Ligeti to declare that it was “the best music by a living composer of our time”. Nancarrow’s Studies for mechanical piano inspired all the works Ligeti wrote after 1980. Today you will hear the orchestration of Study No. 5 from this cycle.

Before Ligeti, densely layered musical elements created a homogeneous sound, but after Ligeti, sound, often as a sonic mass, becomes an atomic element of the music, with its texture variously oversaturated. In his search for a compositional method that would provide a texture for sound masses with the quality of a spider’s web, Ligeti developed the technique of micropolyphony in juxtaposition with Renaissance polyphony by using Ockeghem as a model, adopting his principle of ‘varietas’, where voices are similar without becoming identical.

Ligeti’s music is also a point of reference for his students, and so our concert will feature two of Ligeti’s piano etudes orchestrated by his student Hans Abrahamsen, along with one of his own compositions. Jana Kmita’s compositions are directly related to Ligeti’s musical legacy and offer a dynamic approach to the concept of sound mass.

The Central European Chamber Orchestra MIKAMO was founded in 2007 by former graduates of the Vienna Academy of Music. The orchestra conceives of its concerts as Gesamtkunstwerk and develops the entire Central European musical tradition of the 20th century as well as the historical repertoire of contemporary music in collaboration with contemporary composers. MIKAMO performs unique and cyclical concerts in major concert halls in Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and throughout Central Europe.

This MIKAMO concert features the Quasars Ensemble from Bratislava as a guest ensemble. The ensemble was founded in 2008 and is unique in the breadth of its repertoire, which includes contemporary classical music as well as music from past eras. The ensemble juxtaposes recent contemporary works with the structural principles of period classical music and focuses on performing rare and forgotten ensemble works, especially by Slovak composers.

This MIKAMO concert features the Quasars Ensemble from Bratislava as a guest ensemble. The ensemble was founded in 2008 and is unique in the breadth of its repertoire, which includes contemporary classical music as well as music from past eras. The ensemble juxtaposes recent contemporary works with the structural principles of period classical music and focuses on performing rare and forgotten ensemble works, especially by Slovak composers.

Programm:

Hans Abrahamsen: Liebeslied
Jana Kmiťová: Gesichtsstudien (slovenská premiéra)
György Kurtág: Brefs messages
György Ligeti: Melodien
György Ligeti (Hans Abrahamsen): Ar-en-ciel
György Ligeti (Hans Abrahamsen): En Suspens
Carlo Gesualdo di Venosa: Moro lasso
Jonathan Harvey: Climbing frames
Conlon Nancarrow: Study for Player Piano No. 5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symfónia g mol – KV 550 – I – zvukomalebná parafráza
Johannes Ockeghem: Deo Gratias

Performers:

MIKAMO Central European Chamber Orchestra
Quasars Ensemble, Ivan Buffa, artistic director
Ajtony Csaba, conductor

Venue: Slovak Radio, Mýtna, Bratislava, Slovakia
Date. 22.04.2023
Start: 19:00
Admission: 12 € / adults 6 € / students, pensioners, disabled
Discounts: 50% discount on the ticket is valid for pensioners, students and disabled persons upon presentation of the appropriate ID.
Organiser:
 Sonus Foundation and OZ QUASARS
Co-organizer: Radio and Television of Slovakia
The concert is held with the financial support of the National Cooperation Fund (HU). The concert is supported from public funds by the event’s partner, the Fund for the Support of Arts.

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