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György Ligeti Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet w score
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-Composer: György Sándor Ligeti (28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) • -Ensemble: Albert Schweitzer Quintett • 00:05 - I. Molto sostenuto e calmo • 02:28 - II. Prestissimo minaccioso e burlesco • 03:23 - III. Lento • 05:13 - IV. Prestissimo leggero e virtuoso • 06:06 - V. Presto staccatissimo e leggero • 06:43 - VI. Presto staccatissimo e leggero • 08:00 - VII. Vivo, energico • 09:10 - VIII. Allegro con delicatezza • 11:55 - IX. Sostenuto, stridente • 13:17 - X. Presto bizzarro e rubato • Ligeti composed his Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet following on his String Quartet No.2 and from August to December 1968. • The ten pieces reflect the influence of electronic music and tone-color composition in the field of music. Ideas from film, literature (e.g., E.T.A.Hoffmann), painting (Mirò and Klee), and drama (theater of the absurd, puppet theater) also play an important role. • Special attention has rightly been called to the theatrical character of the pieces, wich do indeed remind us of a refined series of very different scenes. • Daniel Lienhard • György Ligeti wrote about his work: • My first idea was the following. I wanted to compose a virtuoso work, and it would be necessary to bring out the individual character of the five very different instruments available to me. I therefore planned five pieces, each of wich was to be expounded by one instrument in a soloistic role. thus my first idea was: five short virtuoso pieces. But as I was working on the sketches, I began to sense that the idea didn't satisfy me in formal terms. Each piece was supposed to be a formal unit of its own, but all the pieces together were supposed to have an overarching form. I soon found it necessay not only to write a miniature concertos but also nonvirtuoso pieces, something more on the order of ensemble movements in wich no single instrument is dominant. I thereupon designed two such ensemble pieces and wanted to use them to frame the five virtuoso pieces as the prelude and postlude. But after a while I didn't like this idea either. It seemed to me to make more sense to have ensemble pieces alternate with the virtuoso pieces, this in order to supply points of rest. It was thus the final form came about: ten pieces with a regular alternation of ensemble piece, virtuoso piece, ensemble piece,virtuoso piece, and so forth.
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