Ligeti Festival (March 2014)
Presenting Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s achievement, his Piano Concerto and one of his quirkiest, his Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes, the VS’s Ligeti retrospecive highlights his adventerous technique of combining folk and other influences to produce music of fascinating and unearthly beauty. Concerts include Victoria’s Vox Humana singing Ligeti’s “Lux Aeterna” (featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey), the Emily Carr String Quartet and Uvic’s Sonic Lab.
Victoria Symphony Ligeti Piano Concerto
Saturday, March 29, 8:00 PM @ Alix Goolden Hall
Tania Miller, conductor / Roger Admiral, pianist
Ligeti – Poème Symphonice for 100 Metronomes
Ligeti – Ramifications
Sokolovic – Nie Proverbs
Frehner – Ochus Bochus
Ligeti – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Vox Humana Chamber Choir
Ligeti: Lux Aeterna
Friday, March 28, 8:00 PM @ Alix Goolden Hall
Brian Wismath, conductor
Ligeti – Lux Aeterna
Schnittke – Drei geistliche Gesänge
Gorecki – Totus Tuus
Dubra – Ave Maria
Sharman – Love (from Love, Beauty, Desire)
Pärt – Dopo la Vittoria
Tulev – Summer Rain
Mantyjarvi – Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae
Uvic Sonic Lab
Friday, March 21, 8:00 PM @ Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
Ajtony Csaba, conductor
Billone – Verticale Muto
Berio – O King
Ligeti – Violin Concerto
Emily Carr String Quartet
Ligeti & More
Thursday, March 27, 7:30 PM @ Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Ligeti – Andante and Allegretto
Komorous – String Quartet No. 1 ‘The White Shift’
Komorous – String Quartet No. 2 ‘The Atonement’
Ligeti – Loop (from the Viola Sonata)
Ligeti – Cello Sonata
Sokolovic – Commedia dell’arte
