Published 2013-06-01
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Beneath the Romanian Concerto’s colourful orchestral surface, evoking the folk-inspired music of both Bartók and Enescu, lies Ligeti’s early activity as a researcher (1949-1950) at the Folklore Institute in
Bucharest. Placing cutouts from the printed score side by side with the manuscripts of his transcriptions kept at the Paul Sacher Foundation, one may discover this piece’s origins, and the process by which Ligeti, the “archaeologist” brought the rich stock of Romanian folk music from the wax cylinders to the
symphony orchestra. …”
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