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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 Études 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). CD 1 · String Quartets & Duets String Quartet No. 1 “Métamorphoses nocturnes” String Quartet No. 2 · Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg Balada˘ ¸si joc · Andante and Allegretto Arditti String Quartet CD 2 · A Cappella Choral Works Éjszaka · Reggel · Idegen földön · Magány Két kánon · Betlehemi királyok · Bujdosó · Lux aeterna Lakodalmas · Inaktelki nóták · Mátraszentimrei dalok Pápainé · 3 Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin Magyar Etüdök · Haj, ifjúság! · Húsvét · Hortobágy Magos ko˝sziklának · Kállai ketto˝s London Sinfonietta Voices · Terry Edwards CD 3 · Works for Piano Études pour piano · Musica ricercata Pierre-Laurent Aimard CD 4 · Vocal Works Nonsense Madrigals The King’s Singers Mysteries of the Macabre Sibylle Ehlert · Philharmonia Orchestra · Esa-Pekka Salonen Aventures · Nouvelles Aventures Phyllis Bryn-Julson · Rose Taylor · Omar Ebrahim Philharmonia Orchestra · Esa-Pekka Salonen Der Sommer Christiane Oelze · Irina Kataeva Három Weöres-dal · Öt Arany-dal Rosemary Hardy · Pierre-Laurent Aimard Négy lakodalmi tánc Rosemary Hardy · Eva Wedin · Malena Ernman · Pierre-Laurent Aimard CD 5 · Mechanical Music Continuum · Hungarian Rock · Capriccios Nos. 1 & 2 Invention · Musica ricercata Pierre Charial barrel organ Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes Françoise Terrioux metronomes Études pour piano (exerpt) · Continuum Jürgen Hocker player pianos CD 6 · Keyboard Works Induló · Polifón etüd · Haróm lakodalmi tánc · Sonatina · Allegro Irina Kataeva & Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano 4 hands Capriccios Nos. 1 & 2 · Invention Irina Kataeva piano 3 Pieces for 2 Pianos Irina Kataeva & Pierre-Laurent Aimard pianos Passacaglia ungherese · Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) · Continuum Elisabeth Chojnacka harpsichord Ricercare – Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi · 2 Studies for Organ · Volumina Zsigmond Szathmáry organ CD 7 · Chamber Music Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano “Hommage à Brahms” Saschko Gawriloff · Marie-Luise Neunecker · Pierre-Laurent Aimard 10 Pieces for Wind Quintet 6 Bagatelles for Wind Quintet London Winds Sonata for Solo Viola Tabea Zimmermann CD 8 & 9 Le Grand Macabre Sibylle Ehlert · Laura Claycomb · Charlotte Hellekant · Jard van Nes Derek Lee Ragin · Graham Clark · Steven Cole · Richard Suart · Willard White Frode Olsen · Martin Winkler · Marc Campbell-Griffiths · Michael Lessiter London Sinfonietta Voices · Philharmonia Orchestra · Esa-Pekka Salonen Show more