Ligeti-zongoramaraton / LISZT ÜNNEP 2023

Ligeti: Musica ricercata

Ligeti: Études for Piano – excerpts

Featuring: Gábor Csalog, János Palojtay, László Borbély – piano

Moderator: Zoltán Farkas

György Ligeti’s études for piano occupy an important place in his musical universe. Three outstanding performers of modern works, László Borbély, Gábor Csalog and János Palojtay will present a whole evening of piano music, compositions that test the boundaries of both performance on, and composition for, the instrument, Musica ricercata, which was written in the 1950s, and selected pieces of the series of études begun in the 1980s. It was a ‘new concept of rhythmic articulation,’ said Ligeti, that informed his effort when composing the first series of the études. He wanted to create complex rhythmic surfaces in which the listener could notice the simultaneous presence of different tempos and different metrical processes – an illusion that is exceptionally challenging for any performer to create.

This concert of the Liszt Fest is presented by Müpa Budapest as a joint event with the House of Hungarian Music.