“Ligeti Notbad”: a balanced tribute to Terry Riley’s legacy

By Marat Ingeldeev, 11 February 2025

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“the quartet navigated the score freely, weaving brief melodic phrases”

Reviewed at Kings Place: Hall Two, London on 8 February 2025

Riley, Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (arr. Richard Jones)

Oliveros, 70 Chords for Terry: A Meditation on String Theory

Riley, Cadenza on the Night Plain

Ligeti Quartet

Freya Goldmark, Violin

Patrick Dawkins, Violin

Richard Jones, Viola

Valerie Welbanks, Cello

Dynamic Meredith and revelatory Ligeti at Sheffield’s iconic Leadmill

Phil Parker, 13th April

The Ligeti Quartet’s new album of music by Anna Meredith features at their launch event at The Leadmill, Sheffield, but a performance of Ligeti’s First String Quartet steals the limelight.

****1

Tête-à-Tête: From TV dinners to highway robbery

Charlotte Valori, 21st July

Tête-à-Tête opens with groundbreaking community opera, an interesting piece of Jamaican history, and two superb solo operas from the talented Tim Benjamin, finishing on a high with the glorious Silent Jack.

***11

Paul Norman and the Ligeti Quartet celebrate the late Jonathan Harvey

Melissa Hok Cee Wong, 11th January

The late composer Jonathan Harvey, who died last month at age 73, described his Speakings (2008) as the most complicated and ambitious work he had ever written. A 25-minute composition for orchestra and electronics, the piece certainly warrants that description on the levels of scale and logistics alone.

****1

Dynamic Meredith and revelatory Ligeti at Sheffield’s iconic Leadmill

Phil Parker, 13th April

The Ligeti Quartet’s new album of music by Anna Meredith features at their launch event at The Leadmill, Sheffield, but a performance of Ligeti’s First String Quartet steals the limelight.

****1

Dynamic Meredith and revelatory Ligeti at Sheffield’s iconic Leadmill

Phil Parker, 13th April

The Ligeti Quartet’s new album of music by Anna Meredith features at their launch event at The Leadmill, Sheffield, but a performance of Ligeti’s First String Quartet steals the limelight.

****1

Dynamic Meredith and revelatory Ligeti at Sheffield’s iconic Leadmill

Phil Parker, 13th April

The Ligeti Quartet’s new album of music by Anna Meredith features at their launch event at The Leadmill, Sheffield, but a performance of Ligeti’s First String Quartet steals the limelight.

****1

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