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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