Ligeti Sony Edition Box issued

[James]

Disc 1: String Quartets & Duets
Arditti String Quartet

Disc 2: A Cappella Choral Works
London Sinfonietta Voices
Terry Edwards

Disc 3: Piano Works (Etudes, Musica Ricercata)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Disc 4: Vocal Works (Madrigals, Mysteries, Aventures, Songs)
The King's Singers
Rosemary Hardy, Christiane Oelze
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Disc 5: Mechanical Music (Barrel Organ, Metronomes, Player Piano, 2 Player Pianos)
Pierre Charial, Jürgen Hocker, and Françoise Terrioux

Disc 6: Keyboard Works (Piano 4-Hands, 2-Pianos, Harpsichord, Organ)
Irina Kataeva / Pierre-Laurent Aimard / Elisabeth Chojnacka / Zsigmond Szathmáry

Disc 7: Chamber Music (Trio for Violin, Horn & Piano, 10 Pieces & 6 Bagatelles for Wind Quintet, Sonata for Solo Viola)
Saschko Gawriloff / Marie-Luise Neunecker / Pierre-Laurent Aimard / London Winds / Tabea Zimmermann

Disc 8 & 9: Le Grand Macabre (Opera)
Derek Lee Ragin, Charlotte Hellekant, Jard Van Ness, Laura Claycomb,
Sibylle Ehlert, Graham Clark, Steven Cole, Charlotte Hellekant, Willard White,
Frode Olsen, London Sinfonietta Voices, Phiharmonic Orchestra & Chorus,
Esa-Pekka Salonen

According to Amazon.com release date is Jan. 19th, 2010

[Maciek]

According to JPC it's 19th Feb.

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Gy%F6rgy-Ligeti-Gy%F6rgy-Ligeti-Edition-Sony-Classical/hnum/5116806

[DavidW]

Discs 1 and 3 are essential IMO.

As for Le Grand Macabre, I'd want to wait for dvd (blu-ray would be better though)... but then again that might be a long wait.

[George]

Discs 1 and 3 are essential IMO.

David is correct. 

[Maciek]

Yea.. it's probably got a slew of different release dates abroad. Great box tho.

Erm... It's not an American release.

(Amazon.com are simply listing the wrong date, I guess. And .fr, and .co.uk - but not .de)

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Discs 1 and 3 are essential IMO.

Disc 7 is also essential. Don't depart this life without hearing the Horn Trio!

[Maciek]

I don't understand what's happening here. Are you replying, then deleting, then replying again? I'm quite sure I've already read more or less the same thing (a couple of days ago)??

(Anyway, I agree that the date is not a paramount question here. Still, it's long past 19th Jan and no one seems to stock the set, which sort of implies that that date could be wrong.)

[Josquin des Prez]

Disc 7 is also essential. Don't depart this life without hearing the Horn Trio!

Or the Sonata for Solo Viola. It would be great is they could simply round up all his mature works leaving all the juvenile or minor pieces on a side, but his recorded output is so small that it really isn't much of a problem.

[Josquin des Prez]

As for Le Grand Macabre, I'd want to wait for dvd (blu-ray would be better though)... but then again that might be a long wait.

I don't know, that's the only work of Ligeti which i seem to not only dislike, but actually detest. Seeing a real production of it might actually make things a lot worst.

[DavidW]

I don't know, that's the only work of Ligeti which i seem to not only dislike, but actually detest. Seeing a real production of it might actually make things a lot worst.

Oh wow I haven't heard it yet.  I just know that I prefer operas when I can also see them.

[The new erato]

Oh wow I haven't heard it yet.  I just know that I prefer operas when I can also see them.

Depends on what you see. This opera has some weird characters.