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Ligeti: Violin and Piano Concertos, etc album review – As always, Faust’s performance is perceptive and immaculate

These fresh and original concertos revealed the full power of Ligeti’s new musical language; Isabelle Faust and Jean-Frederic Neuburger give accomplished and polished accounts of both

The Guardian - UK

Uproar review – shimmering premieres showcase the dynamism of Welsh new music ensemble

Uproar review – shimmering premieres showcase the dynamism of Welsh new music ensemble

Ligeti’s mesmerising Chamber Concerto was the centrepiece of this Wales-focused concert, which moved from hedonistic piano to crystalline celeste

The Guardian - UK

"It’s timeless. It was always in its own world; it didn’t fit into any category.” Tangerine Dream and the story of Phaedra

"It’s timeless. It was always in its own world; it didn’t fit into any category.” Tangerine Dream and the story of Phaedra

Did you know that Pink Floyd and Emerson Lake & Palmer were both instrumental in the creation of Tangerine Dream's fifth album Phaedra? Read on...

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John Chowning, godfather of digital pop: ‘My wife told me: I didn’t think I’d have to compete with a computer’

Both composer and programmer, Chowning invented the way modern synths work and changed the sound of music for ever. Aged 90, he explains why he’s still at it

The Guardian - UK

Peter Eötvös obituary

Hungarian conductor of modernist music who went on to compose operas with texts ranging from Three Sisters to Angels in America

The Guardian - UK

“Transportative music… a deeply cosmic record that might be out there with their very best”: Hawkwind’s Stories From Time And Space

The space rock icons’ late-career renaissance continues on their 36th studio album

What makes a film score frightening? Expert explains the techniques that build tension and make us jump

Think of the scariest film you’ve ever seen. Beyond any blood-curdling screams or pounding heartbeats, there’s sure to be another sound that sticks in your memory – the score.

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Ligeti 100 review – a day of riches, subtle restraint and a rogue metronome

Ligeti 100 review – a day of riches, subtle restraint and a rogue metronome

Concerts, talks and foyer events celebrated Ligeti in his centenary year. With pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard at its heart, it was a day that underlined the composer’s extraordinary music and unique legacy

The Guardian - UK

Prom 47 at Royal Albert Hall review: Les Siècles under Francois-Xavier Roth give a life-enhancing performance

The avant-garde composer György Ligeti’s progressive work shines at the Proms

Evening Standard

The week in classical: Proms 38 & 39; Prom 40; Trouble in Tahiti – review

The week in classical: Proms 38 & 39; Prom 40; Trouble in Tahiti – review

Three Hungarian-inspired proms combine sizzling energy, Bartók and dadaist absurdity, while an intimate staging ramps up the angst in a bite-size Bernstein

The Guardian - UK

Prom 36 A Space Odyssey: LPO/Gardner review – unsettling and awesome

Prom 36 A Space Odyssey: LPO/Gardner review – unsettling and awesome

Intense and finely focused performances of the Ligeti and Strauss pieces used in Kubrick’s sci-fi epic revealed every detail of their unearthly majesty and awesome extremes

The Guardian - UK

How György Ligeti soundtracked 2001, inspired Radiohead and composed music like ‘a knife through Stalin’s heart’

How György Ligeti soundtracked 2001, inspired Radiohead and composed music like ‘a knife through Stalin’s heart’

The Hungarian escaped two murderous regimes, wrote pieces to be played on metronomes and car horns, and depicted inner and outer space to Stanley Kubrick. Now, in his centenary year, the Proms will celebrate Ligeti’s genius

The Guardian - UK

Ligeti: Metamorphoses review – Quatuor Diotima meet quartets’ challenges with accuracy and brilliance

Ligeti: Metamorphoses review – Quatuor Diotima meet quartets’ challenges with accuracy and brilliance

Superlative renditions of the composer’s two string quartets illuminate his musical transition from communist Hungary to the western avant garde

The Guardian - UK

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