Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Music for the soul

Central Market, Budapest. March 2013
Ligeti's Lontano at the Royal Festival Hall (the Royal Philharmonic conducted by Michail Jurowski).
Broadcast  live on Radio 3 (dismantled mobile phone so nervous was I in the front row pf a random call/alarm).
Jurowski, interviewed beforehand, said it was a gritty programme - Lontano followed by Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto and Schnittke's Symphony No 1.

But Lontano was a quiet start  - still and reflective - 'music for the soul'.


Hungarian composer György Sándor Ligeti  (1923 – 2006).

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