classical music: Pierre-Laurent Aimard

classical music: Pierre-Laurent Aimard

classical music:

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Arnold Schoenberg: Suite, Op. 29, for 2 Clarinets, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano / Verklärte ...

Ensemble InterContemporain, Arnold Schoenberg, ...

Sony, 1993

5-Stars Just for being in Print...
. With the dearth of Schoenberg recordings, gotta give this CD 5-stars simply for being in print. Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemporain are great. The disc has the Verklärte Nacht curse--that is, nearly every Schoenberg CD has Verklärte Nacht on it! However, ...

Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus

Olivier Messiaen, Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Teldec, 2000

Indescribably Beautiful
My concert-going days go back to hearing Artur Schnabel in 1947, and when I say that a recital I heard a year ago by Pierre-Laurent Aimard in which he played five of the 'Vingts Regards' is among the greatest musical experiences I've ever had, it is against that ...

Bach: The Art of Fugue

Johann Sebastian Bach, Emerson String Quartet

UMVD Labels, 2003

When it's good... Say so.
I've been critical of these guys before so I feel it's only fair to say this is a great recording. I have a number of Emerson String Quartet CD's and hardly listen to them as I think their playing often lacks soul and they can sound like they're competing with each ...

Bach: Art of Fugue

Bach, Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Deutsche Grammophon, 2008

Satisfactory...
. This new release of Bach's Art of Fugue is good; adequate; satisfactory. I do hope people will enjoy it, and that it may be a good introduction to esoteric art. Bach's recherché Art of Fugue is cerebral, purely abstract art which can really only be fully ...

György Ligeti Edition 6: Keyboard Works (Piano, Harpsichord, Organ) - Irina Kataeva / Pierre-Laurent Aimard / ...

Gyorgy Ligeti, Elisabeth Chojnacka, ...

Sony, 1997

brilliant music
just listen to the five pieces for piano four hands, and you will know what i'm talking about. I'm going to try and get all this editions of ligeti.

Hommage a Messiaen: 8 Preludes; Selection from: Quatre Etudes de rythme
Olivier Messiaen, Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Deutsche Grammophon, 2008

The centenary of Olivier Messiaen's birth provides an occasion for surveying his place in the landscape of musical creation. This recording, which brings together some relatively neglected pieces from his abundant output, represents both an act of homage to the composer and a reflection on the special position his works occupy in 20th-century ...

Messiaen: Turangalîla - Symphonie / Nagano, Aimard, Kim

Olivier Messiaen, Kent Nagano, ...

Teldec, 2001

Nagano Sets the New Standard!
There are simply few words that can describe the absolute magnificence of this recording. Nagano assembles this vast mosaic in the most masterful way I can imagine. It is at once breathtaking and orgiastic! The Berlin Philharmonic is playing at their highest ...

The Ligeti Project

Omar Ebrahim, David Geringas, ...

Warner Classics, 2008

Highly recommended box-set
This box should probably be your first choice if you want to get acquainted with the works of Ligeti. The recordings in this box are overseen by Ligeti himself, and they were supposed to be definitive recordings that after his death could show conductors how his music ...

György Ligeti Edition 4: Vocal Works (Madrigals, Mysteries, Aventures, Songs) - The King's Singers / ...

Gyorgy Ligeti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, ...

Sony, 1997

where's the dead weight?
This is an amazing disc, one of the best in Sony's monumental Ligeti Edition series. On Sony's Ligeti Edition 4, the _Nonsense Madrigals_ were premiered. These six pieces for six voices, composed in the late-80s/early-90s, are some of the composer's finest ...

György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) - Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Sony, 1997

Perfect Ligeti.
The own György Ligeti was asked about who was the pianist more complete in his piano works; he talked about Pierre-Laurent Aimard, whose a close relation with the XXth Century music is very well known (Boulez, Messiaen, Berg, Schönberg, Carter...) all around the world. ...

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit; Carter: Night Fantasies; Two Diversions; 90+

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Elliott Carter, ...

Warner Classics, 2005

Ravel & Carter, brilliantly conceived and performed
Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a leading performer and interpreter of the contemporary piano repertoire. His recording of Ligeti's etudes, for instance, in the Ligeti Edition series, is amazing (see my review). This particular disc is a brilliant concept, combining two ...

Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Susan Graham, ...

Warner Classics, 2004

It takes a Frenchman to capture an American masterpiece!
The "Concord Sonata" of Charles Ives has been described as "the greatest work written by an American." It's a big sprawling, glorious mess of a thing, inspired by the Transcendental writers Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott and Thoreau. I first heard the ground-breaking ...

The Ligeti Project I: Melodien / Chamber Concerto / Piano Concerto / Mysteries of the Macabre - Schönberg ...

Gyorgy Ligeti, ASKO Ensemble, ...

Teldec, 2001

A Brilliant Recording of Some of Ligeti's Finest Works
The music of György Ligeti is enjoying much performance success these days as works by the master are appearing more often on the season repertoires of the major orchestra. This superb recording, the first in the excellent survey series of Ligeti's music, opens the ...

African Rhythms

Gyorgy Ligeti, Steve Reich, ...

Teldec, 2003

If you like experiments...
...then this is the right place to start. And if you like cross-overs, this is one of the more laudable efforts to consider. The basic idea behind this CD is brilliant: An exciting confrontation really, a comparison, between contemporary culture and rhythms, and ...