Ligeti / Arditti String Quartet / Salonen Masterworks CD

Sony Classical proudly announces an uncommonly attractive new batch of reissues from the CBS/Sony and RCA Victor/BMG back catalogues. This latest installment of the popular series showcases the reissue of a path-breaking composer edition as well as recordings by some of the labels' greatest artists of the last half century. Included in this batch are nine albums dedicated to one of the indisputable geniuses of modern music. Sony Classical's landmark "Ligeti Edition", recorded under the great Hungarian composer's supervision and first released on single albums in 1996, will now be available internationally in a complete set. This famous project needs little additional commentary. Fanfare called it "a must for any collector or interested listener". Enough to say that it features such authoritative interpreters of the composer's endlessly fascinating works as Pierre-Laurent Aimard playing the staggeringly difficult and beautiful ?tudes and other piano works, the Arditti Quartet giving benchmark readings of the String Quartets and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the orchestral works and the definitive recording of Ligeti's operatic masterpiece Le Grand Macabre, which Gramophone called "the key opera of the end of the twentieth century". Salonen's ideally cast recording of the final revised version, sung in English, "is the one to have - Ligeti's revisions are all improvements, and the performance is a fine one" (Gramophone).

1. CD 1 ? String Quartets ; Duets 2. String Quartet No. 1 "M?tamorphoses Nocturnes" 3. String Quartet No. 2 ? Hommage ? Hilding Rosenberg 4. Balada? ?Si Joc ? Andante and Allegretto 5. Arditti String Quartet 6. CD 2 ? a Cappella Choral Works 7. ?jszaka ? Reggel ? Idegen F?LD?N ? Magßny 8. K?T Kßnon ? Betlehemi Kirßlyok ? Bujdos? ? Lux Aeterna 9. Lakodalmas ? Inaktelki N?T?K ? Mßtraszentimrei Dalok 10. Pßpain? ? 3 Phantasien Nach Friedrich H÷lderlin 11. Magyar Et?d÷k ? Haj, Ifj·sßg! ? H?SV?T ? Hortobßgy 12. Magos Ko?Sziklßnak ? Kßllai Ketto?S 13. London Sinfonietta Voices ? Terry Edwards 14. CD 3 ? Works for Piano 15. ?tudes Pour Piano ? Musica Ricercata 16. Pierre-Laurent Aimard 17. CD 4 ? Vocal Works 18. Nonsense Madrigals 19. The King's Singers 20. Mysteries of the Macabre 21. Sibylle Ehlert ? Philharmonia Orchestra ? Esa-Pekka Salonen 22. Aventures ? Nouvelles Aventures 23. Phyllis Bryn-Julson ? Rose Taylor ? Omar Ebrahim 24. Philharmonia Orchestra ? Esa-Pekka Salonen 25. Der Sommer 26. Christiane Oelze ? Irina Kataeva 27. Hßrom We÷res-Dal ? ?T Arany-Dal 28. Rosemary Hardy ? Pierre-Laurent Aimard 29. N?gy Lakodalmi T?NC 30. Rosemary Hardy ? Eva Wedin ? Malena Ernman ? Pierre-Laurent Aimard 31. CD 5 ? Mechanical Music 32. Continuum ? Hungarian Rock ? Capriccios Nos. 1 ; 2 33. Invention ? Musica Ricercata 34. Pierre Charial Barrel Organ 35. Po?me Symphonique for 100 Metronomes 36. Fran?oise Terrioux Metronomes 37. ?tudes Pour Piano (Exerpt) ? Continuum 38. J?rgen Hocker Player Pianos 39. CD 6 ? Keyboard Works 40. Indul? ? Polif?n Et?d ? Har?m Lakodalmi T?NC ? Sonatina ? Allegro 41. Irina Kataeva ; Pierre-Laurent Aimard Piano 4 Hands 42. Capriccios Nos. 1 ; 2 ? Invention 43. Irina Kataeva Piano 44. 3 Pieces for 2 Pianos 45. Irina Kataeva ; Pierre-Laurent Aimard Pianos 46. Passacaglia Ungherese ? Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) ? Continuum 47. Elisabeth Chojnacka Harpsichord 48. Ricercare - Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi ? 2 Studies for Organ ? Volumina 49. Zsigmond Szathmßry Organ 50. CD 7 ? Chamber Music 51. Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano "Hommage ? Brahms" 52. Saschko Gawriloff ? Marie-Luise Neunecker ? Pierre-Laurent Aimard 53. 10 Pieces for Wind Quintet 54. 6 Bagatelles for Wind Quintet 55. London Winds 56. Sonata for Solo Viola 57. Tabea Zimmermann 58. CD 8 ; 9 59. Le Grand Macabre 60. Sibylle Ehlert ? Laura Claycomb ? Charlotte Hellekant ? Jard Van Nes 61. Derek Lee Ragin ? Graham Clark ? Steven Cole ? Richard Suart ? Willard White 62. Frode Olsen ? Martin Winkler ? Marc Campbell-Griffiths ? Michael Lessiter 63. London Sinfonietta Voices ? Philharmonia Orchestra ? Esa-Pekka Salonen