Ligeti - Three Etudes - Aimard

Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays three etudes from the first book of Ligeti's etudes: Désordre, Touches Bloquées, and Automne à Varsovie.

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• pierre
• laurent
• aimard
• etude
• piano
• désordre
• desordre
• touches
• bloquées
• bloquees
• automne
• varsovie
• autumn
• warsaw

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2:19 - Touches

4:18 - Autumn

[OAmus]

Half the fun of Touches Bloquées is watching it played!

And Autumn in Warsa is absolutely awe-inspiring.

[f4c3pwnz]

Badass.

[frauherrero]

Aimard is a fantastic Ligeti performer. Great video!

[mirrors1]

C'è molto Bartòk qui e mi pare anche giusto

[Bashkii]

Aimard is unbelievably good!! The pieces I find very interesting and challenging and a real great contribution to piano literature music . Ligeti is great, I think. Check his Requiem!!

[thePartita]

@maternelle01 Don't be afraid of the rhythms in arc-en-ciel, this is going to be no problem once you really understood and felt it.

Yes, devils staircase is indeed very difficult, it does not only seem so... :)

[maternelle01]

@ddchil41 Though the first etude seems to be so difficult! Thank you for your answer

[maternelle01]

@thePartita I agree with you, Ligeti is just wonderful for his unusual textures, colors, and atmospheres, unfortunatly he's not esteemed by people in "conservatories" (I don't know if we say like that in engish!), anyway thank you for your answer, i'm going to ask my teacher to play "arc-en-ciel" etude, even if rythm in it scares me! I dream of playing the devil's staircase, but it seems to be really - too - hard.

Good play

[thePartita]

@ddchil41 "to each his own" - of course.

By the way, I am also playing his etudes - that is one of the reasons why I am so much into this stuff and why I am very much interested in Ligeti's music and life at the moment. His ideas behind his compositions are very interesting and the resulting music also is in my opinion.

[ddchil41]

@thePartita

To each his own...you are entitled to your opinion...and I am entitled to mine...I did play them...after all...

There is so much in the piano repertoire...that is more grateful...some of Ligeti's etudes are quite beautiful, and some are less..., I would not choose to play these in a concert....was requested to perform them for a particular ballet...

[thePartita]

I completely disagree about "Ligeti = Czerny like"!

Besides, I find these etudes "beautiful". Beauty in the sense of deep and at the same time sounding well (listen to Automne - isn't this beautiful? What about Vertige, Arc en ciel, Fanfares...?)