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Musica Ricercata

Emilie Anne Gendron, violinGuillermo Laporta, fluteJosefina Urraca, pianoJulia Yang, celloMatthew Cohen, viola

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György Ligeti · Musica Ricercata
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  • I. Allegro con spirito
  • II. Rubato lamentoso
  • III. Allegro grazioso
  • IV. Presto ruvido
  • V. Adagio mesto. Béla Bartók in memoriam
  • VI. Molto vivace, capriccioso
György Ligeti’s Musica ricercata (1951–53) is one of the composer’s most inventive early works. In this arrangement by Guillermo Laporta, the piece unfolds as a gradual exploration of musical possibility. Each movement introduces one additional pitch, beginning with a single note and slowly expanding into a rich and complex harmonic world. Ligeti approached the idea of ricercata literally, searching for a new musical language built from the simplest materials. The result is a sequence of miniature musical experiments that combine rigor, humor, and expressive intensity. Some of this material would later appear in Ligeti’s well-known Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet.

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