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Work: Lux aeterna

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ComposerLigeti, György (1923-2006)
PeriodModern
Year1966
Work typeChoral
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AmsterdamIn higher spirits with Ligeti and Langgaard

Het Concertgebouw
Jockel, Sibelius, Ligeti, Langgaard
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest); Oscar Jockel; Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor); Benjamin Goodson; Laetitia Gerards; Elina Vähälä
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Prom 36: the LPO play music from 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Edward Gardner conducts the LPO in a shrewdly conceived programme of Ligeti and Strauss.
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Latvian Radio Choir impresses in Dublin

LRC give a sublime rendition of Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil and astound with surreal vocal effects in the contemporary music of the second half. 
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Staring into the unknown: The New York Philharmonic play 2001: A Space Odyssey

So begins the fifth year of Alan Gilbert’s quest to make the New York Philharmonic the very model of a modern symphony orchestra: a concert in which the music director spent the vast majority of this time seated stock still; in which the luckier of the musicians spent most of their hours looking up at a big screen; and in which the audience spent most of their evening entranced by visuals and jump
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