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Gyorgy Ligeti
Ligeti was born in Tarnava-Sanmartin (in Hungarian, Dicsoszentmarton, renamed Tarnaveni in 1945), in the Transylvania region of Romania to a Hungarian Jewish family. Ligeti recalls that his first exposure to languages other than Hungarian came one day while listening to a conversation among the Romanian-speaking town police. Before that he hadn't known that other languages existed. He moved to Cluj (Kolozsvar) with his family when he was 6 and he was not to return to the town of his birth until the 1990s.
Ligeti received his initial musical training in the conservatory at Cluj. In 1943, after the takeover of Northern Transylvania by Hungary following the Second Vienna Award, his education was interrupted when, as a Jew, he was sent to a forced labor brigade by the Horthy regime. His brother, at the age of sixteen, was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp; his parents were both sent to Auschwitz. His mother was the only other survivor of the immediate family.
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Review: For unaccompanied mixed voice choir. English translation inlcuded.
Songlist: Hortobagy
Review: First premiered by the King's Singers in Queen Elizabeth Hall these compositions are a delight and will be a welcome addition to your repertoire. English text by William Rands and Lewis Carroll. Difficult.
Songlist: Two Dreams and Little Bat, Cuckoo in the Pear-Tree, The Alphabet, Flying Robert, The Lobster Quadrille, A Long, Sad Tale
Review: A collection of Hungarian folk songs for unaccompanied upper voice choir.
Songlist: Harom hordo, Igaz szerelem, Gomb, gomb, Erdobe, erdobe
Review: Terry Edwards conducts the London Sinfonietta Voices in 37 striking a cappella choral works by noted Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. Influenced by Bartok and Kodaly, and by Hungarian and Romanian folk music, Ligeti experienced censorship of his work by the Soviets, finally fleeing with his wife to Austria after the crushing of the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Since then his work has found a much wider audience in Germany, Sweden and California. All songs are a cappella and sung in Hungarian, but the extensive liner notes have English translations of all the lyrics. Some of our favorites are the folk tunes "Haj, Ifjusag!" (Heigh, Youth!) which sings lustily of the battle of the sexes, "Hortobagy," which sings of life on the farm, and "Kallai Kettos," (Double Dance from Kallo), which sings of love in Autumn, and the fact that all the singers' relatives and in-laws are still alive and kicking. "Choral Works" is a complex, powerful, poetic choral work by a gifted composer and a wonderful choral group.
Songlist: Night, Morning, Far from Home, Solitude, Two Canons, Kings of Bethlehem, The Fugitive, Wedding Song, Songs from Inaktelke, Songs from Matraszentimre, Widow Papai, Three Fantasies after Holderlin, Hungarian Etudes, Heigh, Youth!, Easter, Hortobagy, From A High Mountain Rock, Double-Dance from Kallo
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| Song Name | Arranger | Composer | Artist | Item Title | Format | Trax | |
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| A Long, Sad Tale | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Nonsense Madrigals | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Cuckoo in the Pear-Tree | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Nonsense Madrigals | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Double-Dance from Kallo | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Easter | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Erdobe, erdobe | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Songs from Matraszentimr Dalok | Songbook (SAA) | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Far from Home | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Flying Robert | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Nonsense Madrigals | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
| From A High Mountain Rock | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Gomb, gomb | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Songs from Matraszentimr Dalok | Songbook (SA) | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Harom hordo | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Songs from Matraszentimr Dalok | Songbook (SA) | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Heigh, Youth! | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Hortobagy | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Hortobagy - Three Hungarian Folksongs | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Hortobagy | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Hungarian Etudes | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Igaz szerelem | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Songs from Matraszentimr Dalok | Songbook (SA) | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Kings of Bethlehem | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Lux aeterna | Gyorgy Ligeti | Ars Nova Singers | Luminescence: Music for Many Voices | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Morning | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Night | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Reggel | Gyorgy Ligeti | Santa Fe Desert Chorale | Passion | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Reggel | Gyorgy Ligeti | Iowa State Singers | Choral Spectrum 3 | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Solitude | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Songs from Inaktelke | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Songs from Matraszentimre | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| The Alphabet | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Nonsense Madrigals | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
| The Fugitive | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| The Lobster Quadrille | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Nonsense Madrigals | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Three Fantasies after Holderlin | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Two Canons | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Two Dreams and Little Bat | Gyorgy Ligeti | Gyorgy Ligeti | Nonsense Madrigals | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Wedding Song | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
| Widow Papai | Gyorgy Ligeti | London Sinfonietta Voices | Gyorgy Ligeti - A Cappella Choral Works | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS |
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