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Musica ricercata

Composer
Ligeti György
Original / Hungarian title
Musica ricercata
Foreign language / English title
Musica ricercata
Subtitle
per pianoforte / for piano
Year of composition
1953
Type
Instrumental solo
Number of players
1
Instrumentation
pf.
Duration
23 min
Movements, parts
1. Sostenuto - Misurato - Prestissimo
2. Mesto, rigido e ceremoniale
3. Allegro con spirito
4. Tempo di valse (poco vivace - a l´orgue de Barbarie)
5. Rubato. Lamentoso
6. Allegro molto capriccioso
7. Cantabile, molto legato
8. Vivace. Energico
9. Adagio. Mesto - Allegro maestoso (Béla Bartók in memoriam)
10. Vivace. Capriccioso
11. Andante misurato e tranquillo (Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi)
Premiere information
18 November 1969, Sundsvall, Sweden; Liisa Pohjola (pf.)
Publisher / Source
Schott Music, Mainz © 1995, ED 7718

Original MS owned by Mrs. Maedi Wood in Vienna
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Recordings
Wergo CD WER60131, 1987 - Begoña Uriarte, Karl Hermann Mrongovius (pf.)
BISCD053, 1987 - Liisa Pohjola (pf.)
Sony Classical CD SK 62308, 1996 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pf.)
1 min. sample
1 1. Sostenuto - Misurato - Prestissimo
2 2. Mesto, rigido e ceremoniale
3 5. Rubato. Lamentoso
4 7. Cantabile, molto legato
5 11. Andante misurato e tranquillo
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1951/1953

Nr. III: Allegro con spirito (simplified version) in "Sonatinen, Sonaten, Stücke des 18-20. Jahrhunderts für Klavier", ED 6695
Nr. IV: Tempo di valse in "Von Schönberg bis Ligeti" (Hrsg.: Fritz Emonts), ED 9478
Nr. V: Rubato. Lamentoso & Nr. VI: Allegro molto capriccioso in "Das neue Klavierbuch III", ED 7095
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
György Ligeti Edition 3 - Works for Piano Sony
Sony
Ligeti, György: Works for Piano & Cembalo Col Legno
BIS Records
BIS Records
Dynamic
L'empreinte Digitale
Wergo
BIS Records
BIS Records
Ligeti, György: Works for Piano & Cembalo ITM
Ligeti, György: Works for Piano & Cembalo Col Legno
Pro Piano
Melba
Wergo
Verso