24.05.2023 | Concert
LIGETI 100 | Ligeti meets Kurtág
Saturday, May 27, at Budapest Music Centre
The festival ‘Ligeti 100’ highlights the musical innovations of composer György Ligeti, who would be celebrating his 100th birthday this Sunday. The program on Saturday, May 27, is all about the relationship between György Ligeti and György Kurtág. Distinguished Hungarian and international performers will pay tribute to the two artists, among them ECM artist and violist Kim Kashkashian. For more information, visit the BMC website.
“In 1945, two young Hungarian artists born in Romania ventured across the Hungarian border and made a pilgrimage to Budapest to have a share in Bartók’s legacy. The revolution in 1956 separated them physically, but their relationship – despite their opposed way of thinking – has never been broken since they met for the first time. Kurtág insisted that Ligeti’s pieces must be included at the concerts celebrating his birthday, and now, on the centenary of Ligeti’s birth, we are no doubt fulfilling his wish by featuring his works along with those of Kurtág. Distinguished Hungarian and international performers will pay tribute to the two flag-bearers of European culture: composer-improvisator Lukas Ligeti, young star Nicolas Namoradze, the queen of violists, Kim Kashkashian, Iceland’s Glenn Gould, Víkingur Ólafsson, the captivating Steven Isserlis, Ligeti’s and Kurtág’s Hungarian experts, Gábor Csalog and András Kemenes, and the master of the barrel organ, Pierre Charial, who transcribed some of Ligeti’s works in collaboration with the composer himself.”
Discover the ECM releases around Kúrtag and Ligeti:
